Theorising and practising nobility
Theorising and practising nobility
In “Chapter One,” she discusses the prevailing definition of hidalguía or nobility by birth. She focuses on treatises, accounts, and other documentary texts that show the established nobility’s resistance to socio-cultural similitude with plebeian trespassers. The examined texts assert the genealogical superiority of “natural” nobles—even if they themselves are not—and the indomitable desire of commoners to destroy their lineages.
Keywords: Hidalguía, Social mobility, Ejecutoria, Lowborn, Social passing, Benito Peñalosa y Mondragón, Fernando de Mexía, Juan Benito Guardiola, Bernabé Moreno de Vargas, Alonso Téllez de Meneses
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