Seda, trabajo y sociedad en la Murcia del siglo XVII
- Francisco Chacón Jiménez Director
Defence university: Universidad de Murcia
Fecha de defensa: 05 December 2005
- José Ignacio Fortea Pérez Chair
- Antonio Peñafiel Ramón Secretary
- Francisco Sánchez-Montes González Committee member
- Ricardo Franch Benavent Committee member
- Juan Hernández Committee member
Type: Thesis
Abstract
The essential thesis is to analyse the Murcian society in the seventeenth century through the process of production, manufacture, commercialization and fiscal taxation of the silk. In the same way it has the purpose of explaining the social mobility and social reproduction of the elite which arose out of the silk trade, and doing research in the circumstances which made possible or did not the formation of a social middle class group, the bourgeoisie. The silk contributed to the characterization of the society of the seventeenth century as an economical and social formation that has the perpetuation and the social reproduction as fundamental principle. The social protagonists acts in order to improve and guarantee their position in the society, this one is more important than the possession of goods; nevertheless, the wealth and the social relations are essential for the individual and family fight to get the honour.