La Crisi del segle XVII a Catalunya

Authors

  • Eva Serra i Puig

Abstract

European historiography currently identifies the Crisis of the 17th Century with a period of socio-economic and politico-military structural change within a framework of transition from a feudal to a capitalist society. This paper examines the Catalan case within these parameters: the transformation of agriculture and manufacturing, changes in commercial and financial circuits and socio-political conflicts with the absolutist aspirations of the Hispanic monarchy; in other words against the wars, against the taxation policies and against the political homogenisation the monarchy aspired to, a monarchy always averse or with its back to any productive factor. Catalonia was fighting for its institutions and for its own laws, which were much better suited to a European society undergoing transformation. For Catalonia, the 17th century was above all a century of structural change and, despite some crises of survival and epidemics, it achieved a significant degree of socio-economic and politicoinstitutional transformation. However, the Hispanic military assaults of 1652 and 1714 cut short its political future.

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Published

2014-01-22

How to Cite

Serra i Puig, E. (2014). La Crisi del segle XVII a Catalunya. Butlletí De La Societat Catalana d’Estudis Històrics, (24), 297–315. Retrieved from https://revistes.iec.cat/index.php/BSCEH/article/view/83379.001

Issue

No. 24 (2013)

Section

Times of crisis. A transversal perspective on the history of Catalonia

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