La inversión en centros eclesiásticos como estrategia de movilidad social en el reino astur-leonés (siglos VIII-XI)
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2025
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Escudero Manzano, G. J. . (2025). La inversión en centros eclesiásticos como estrategia de movilidad social en el reino astur-leonés (siglos VIII-XI). Hispania Sacra, 77(155), 1114
Abstract
Los centros eclesiásticos altomedievales se caracterizan por su versatilidad. Si bien su faceta social y material es sobradamente conocida, existen otros asuntos en los que todavía es preciso profundizar. En mi aportación, reflexionaré acerca de la motivación que empujaba a invertir parte del patrimonio personal o familiar en la financiación de estas instituciones, el rol que desempeñaron en la penetración de la autoridad central en los ámbitos locales y qué relevancia tuvo la agencia local en este proceso. Los resultados obtenidos permiten observar que se trató de un recurso destinado a elevar la posición social de sus promotores y, por consiguiente, de una práctica en la cual tuvo mayor trascendencia la ambición individual que la implantación de ciertas estructuras centrales de dominación
The Early Medieval ecclesiastic centres are characterized by their versatility. Even if their social and material side is well known, other matters require a more thorough analysis. This contribution, investigates the motivation that led to investments of personal or familiar wealth in these institutions, the role they played in the incursion of the central authority in local fields and the relevance of local agency in these processes. This study will demonstrate that these investments were meant to increase their promotors’ social position and that they represented, therefore, a practice more in line with individual ambitions than with the establishment of central structures of domination
The Early Medieval ecclesiastic centres are characterized by their versatility. Even if their social and material side is well known, other matters require a more thorough analysis. This contribution, investigates the motivation that led to investments of personal or familiar wealth in these institutions, the role they played in the incursion of the central authority in local fields and the relevance of local agency in these processes. This study will demonstrate that these investments were meant to increase their promotors’ social position and that they represented, therefore, a practice more in line with individual ambitions than with the establishment of central structures of domination













