Practices and importance of living nobly. The example of Díaz de Escobar in Cordoba

Abstract

Daily life study will allow us to know, not only the habits and characters from people in the past, but also is an excellent way to understand the strategies for social ascent of certain group of families who chose to emulate the material and immaterial habits of his higher contemporaries in order to be gradually assimilated into the privileged class. This article is about cordobesians Díaz de Escobar who had that wish.