SOCIAL ADVANCEMENT IN THE EARLY MODERN AGE: THE CASE OF MARQUISES OF CANILLEJAS

Abstract

The society during Early Modern Age has always been considered as a rigid structure, whose foundations were solid and immovable. Ideas like the hermetic estates or the omission of social minorities as the Jewish converts in the elite, are concepts that have been rejected at present by the researchers. In conclusion, in this paper I have intended to address the mechanisms and methods that were used by the members of the upper class family on whom we have based our study, connecting them to other known and investigated cases. This will give a complete vision about an extremely complex society