Ownership Regimes in the Iberian World (1500-1850)

The Normative Role of Kinship and Community
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-72271-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 346 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 656 g

Reihe: Max Planck Studies in Global Legal History of the Iberian Worlds

Explore a new perspective on land relations with Ownership Regimes, which shifts focus from traditional legal views to socio-historical contexts. This book reveals how land holding was influenced by diverse practices, including doctrine, laws, customs, regional kinship, and community ties. By understanding these as components of a broader normative framework, scholars from different regions show how complex social, religious, and cultural norms shaped efficient and enduring land-use arrangements. It challenges historians and legal scholars to examine the interplay of these norms in the Iberian world, uncovering how they defined ownership, division, regulation, and conflict resolution in various regions.

Contributors are: Manuel Bastias Saavedra, Alessandro Buono, Thiago Mota, José Carlos De La Puente Luna, Íñigo Ena Sanjuán,
Alcira Dueñas, Marta Martín Gabaldón, Carolina Jurado, Crislayne Alfagali, and Rosa Congost.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bastias Saavedra, Manuel

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

1 Beyond Private and Common

Ownership Regimes in the Iberian World (1500–1800)

Manuel Bastias Saavedra

2 The Rights of Things and the Obligations of the Owner

Exploring the Deep Normative Grammars of the Early Modern Ownership Regime

Alessandro Buono

3 Guests in Foreign Lands

Land Control and Ownership in Greater Senegambia in the Face of the Portuguese Presence (16th and 17th Centuries)

Thiago Henrique Mota

4 A Widow’s Tale

Shifting Land Regimes and the Interplay of Household and Community in Colonial Peru

José Carlos de la Puente Luna

5 Ownership and Seigniorial Relationships

Land and Territory in Colonial Tlaxiaco (the Mixteca, Mexico)

Marta Martín Gabaldón

6 Domestic Rights in Indigenous Communal Lands and the Expression “Menester” during the Execution of the 1591 Royal Decrees in Charcas, Viceroyalty of Peru

Carolina Jurado

7 Concordias, Sentencias Arbitrales, and Vistas

Ownership and Possession of Grassland in the Valleys of Ansó and Hecho (17th–19th Centuries)

Íñigo Ena Sanjuán

8 Amparos and Mapas

Communal Land Possession and Dispossession in the Late Colonial Andes

Alcira Dueñas

9 Sobas, Ilamba, and Residents

On the Diverse Meanings of Land in Angola’s Hinterland in the 18th century

Crislayne Gloss Marão Alfagali

10 Epilogue: The Necessary De-Westernisation of the Models of Land Ownership

Reflections on the Idea of Feudal Remnants in Core Western Countries

Rosa Congost

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Manuel Bastias Saavedra, Ph.D. (2012), is Associate Professor of Latin American History at Leibniz University Hannover. His research focuses on the legal and institutional history of the Spanish and Portuguese empires. He currently leads the IberLAND project, funded by the European Research Council.