El estudio del poder a través de los expedientes de hábito de las órdenes militares en la comarca Sur de Jaén (siglos XVI y XVI)nuevas perspectivas

Abstract

Through the study of the expedients of habit of the Military Orders, we intend to approach the mechanisms of social promotion and representation existing in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in the province of Jaén. For this, it has been necessary to establish a perspective of study that, starting from a new methodological approach, allow knowing who the protagonists were behind the procedure, from the beginning, until an applicant became a knight of a particular military order. The existing reality shows how power, honor, and family were the keys that led to a certain personage to cross himself with the longed “venera”, which, on the other hand, was transmitted from generation to generation as if it were an inheritance, provided that the crown had been properly served.