I DON'T WANT TO GO TO WAR. SOLDIERS FROM TRUJILLO IN THE PORTUGUESE BORDER DURING THE WAR OF SPANISH SUCCESSION

Authors

  • Rocío Sánchez Rubio University of Extremadura
  • Isabel Testón Núñez University of Extremadura

Keywords:

Spanish Sucession War, Felipe V, Spanish-Portuguese border, Trujillo, militias, army, impressments, lists

Abstract

This study analyzes the feelings, attitudes and specific answers, from the eyes of social and political groups, to the constant Crown demands to end the severe lack of troops that started in the 17th century. This problem was worsened by the increasing bellicose situation in the Iberian Peninsula starting in 1703, affecting mostly specific locations in Extremadura like Trujillo, close to the border with Portugal. Even though all social groups were subjects of the same ruler, they answer in different ways to the same issue due to social class and individual reasons. Despite this, all those reasons show that men in the past did not want to go to war, and they used all their resources at their disposal towards this goal.

   

Author Biographies

  • Rocío Sánchez Rubio, University of Extremadura

    Doctor in History from the University of Extremadura (1991) with the thesis Extremaduran emigration to the New World: voluntary and forced exclusions of a peripheral town in the 16th century, with which she obtained an Extraordinary Doctorate Award. She has been teaching at this University since 1991 in the Area of ​​Modern History and has been a Full Professor since 1997. For years she has been developing several lines of research focused primarily on private correspondence from the modern period, historical cartography, the study of social minorities and the social impact of emigration to the Indies. It belongs to the G.I. Gehsomp.

     

     

  • Isabel Testón Núñez, University of Extremadura

    Doctor in History from the University of Extremadura (1982) and is currently a member of the G.I. Gehsomp. He began his research activity in the field of social history and mentalities. His thesis: The mentality of the Extremaduran man in the 17th century (1982), was partially published under the title Love, sex and marriage in Extremadura (1985). This line of research has been compatible for years with others circumscribed to the field of Social History of Writing and Historical Cartography.

     

     

     

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Issue

No. 27/28 (2014): Tribute to prof. Dr. D. Fernando Serrano Mangas

Section

Artículos

How to Cite

I DON’T WANT TO GO TO WAR. SOLDIERS FROM TRUJILLO IN THE PORTUGUESE BORDER DURING THE WAR OF SPANISH SUCCESSION. (2025). Norba. Revista De Historia - NRH, 27/28, 343-371. https://revista-norbahistoria.unex.es/index.php/NRH/article/view/842