Endeudamiento municipal, mercado financiero y tesoros de Andalucía. Los censualistas del concejo malagueño (siglos XVI y XVII)

Abstract

The debts contracted by local estates in the 16th and 17th Centuries were important in that they had both political as well as economic consequences. The vital interest of financial documents issued by the monarchy in the municipal corporations is brought up to date in this article. A detailed analysis of the mortgage loans of the Malaga town council sheds new light on the characteristics of the Andalusian financial market in the 16th and 17th centuries. More than new discoveries, this article is an in-depth study ratifying certain historical interpretations viewed here from a new perspective. Such is the case, for example, with the controversy over the circulation of precious metals, as well as the different positions regarding commerce adopted by different social groups.