GENEALOGICAL BOOKS AND CONSIDERATIONS FROM SOCIAL HISTORY ABOUT CASTILIAN LINEAGES IN THE EARLY MODERN AGE

Abstract

Reading and analysis of genealogical books produced in Castile from the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth century by the socialhistory of the family allow to know better the meaning and scope of the concept lineage. Beyond genealogies, genealogical books provide marital relations, social relations, patronage, references about symbolic capital, military and bureaucratic services to the monarchy. This allows to know more about the life trajectories of powerful families and family trees becamesocial genealogies.