Christina H. Lee
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781784991203
- eISBN:
- 9781526104021
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781784991203.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
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 ...
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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.Less
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.
