Abstract

GOMEZ NAVARRO, María Soledad. La documentación notarial de las “ultimidades” para la historia social y cultural rural de la Europa moderna. Mundo agrar. [online]. 2021, vol.22, n.49, e160. ISSN 1515-5994.  http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.24215/15155994e160.

This text aims to show the potentialities and utilities –also the difficulties– of the most specific and suitable notarial documentation to study attitudes towards death in rural Europe of the Old Regime; it affects, therefore, in writings of last will (testaments in their various and diverse types; memorials, testamentary memories, codicils), loose deeds of donations and foundations, and of liquidation and distribution of goods by death (particles, partitions and inventories post mortem). However, and to frame that section, which is the central and fundamental part of this contribution, two more accompany it, since it will also reflect on the use of the notarial instruments for economic, social and cultural history, as well as on one of the most benefited historiographies in this regard, as has been related to collective behaviors in the face of death in modern Spain.

Keywords : Notarial documentation; Death; Rural environment; Spain; Europe; Old Regime.

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