Demographic approach to the secular clergy in Seventeenth Century Murcia

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  • Antonio Irigoyen López Dpto. de H.a Moderna, Contemporánea y de América. Universidad de Murcia

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https://doi.org/10.30827/cn.v0i24.2092

Keywords:

Ecclesiastic demography, Secular clergy, Murcia, Exemption, Census, Refacción, Population

Abstract

For many Seventeenth Century authors, the excessive number of clergymen was one of the causes of the crisis of the Hispanic Monarchy. However, it is not possible to get reliable data for correborating these positions. Exists for the city of Murcia a documentation that being used with much caution can serve to have an idea of the number of the secular clergy, its distribution, the percentage that was representing on the whole of the population, as well as its evolution throughout the century. With all this information we shall be able to judge if the writers were right.

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Irigoyen López, A. Demographic approach to the secular clergy in Seventeenth Century Murcia. Chronica Nova. Revista De Historia Moderna De La Universidad De Granada, (24), 171–188. https://doi.org/10.30827/cn.v0i24.2092

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