Reconfiguración de la sangre y el mérito en el siglo XVIII:
- Fortea Pérez, José Ignacio (coord.)
- Gelabert, Juan E. (coord.)
- López Vela, Roberto (coord.)
- Postigo Castellanos, Elena (coord.)
Publisher: Fundación Española de Historia Moderna ; Universidad de Cantabria
ISBN: 978-84-949424-1-9
Year of publication: 2018
Volume Title: Comunicaciones
Volume: 2
Pages: 1005-1015
Congress: Asociación Española de Historia Moderna (15. 2018. Madrid)
Type: Conference paper
Abstract
Along the eighteenth century there was a reconfiguration of the principles that were the backbone of the Ancien Regime society, although it is true that these changes were produced without abrupt breakages. In the case of the elites, this fact was more accentuated because it produced a new order of the institutional framework of the Monarchy. This present paper tries to approach this topic through an institution that has not been studied in depth until now: the Royal Navy. The Navy became one of the most important institutions of that century and its officers constituted one of the most outstanding bodies of the period. Therefore, the objective of this work is to examine the changes in the concept of blood and merit (through the relationship that exists between both terms) through the regulation on promotions and memorial that the officers sent in order to ascend. The documentary series existing in the General Archive of Simancas and the General Archive of the Marina 'Álvaro de Bazán' throughout the XVIII century have been examined.