This seminar represents another in the cycle “História das nobrezas de Antigo Regime: modelos de reprodução social e institucional – o modelo vincular” (History of the Ancien Régime nobility: models of social and institutional reproduction), which correspondingly addresses the models of social and institutional reproduction of the nobility under the Ancien Regime, reflecting on the social strategies and paths that characterised the formation and consolidation of noble groups as family institutions. This seminar will present a specific model of social and institutional reproduction of family groups, the so-called entailment model. Through these bonds (expressed through morgadios or chapels), the nobility ensured the transmission of heritage that was to be perpetually managed by the family, applying the income to maintain the health of the founders’ souls and the survival of the family project. This seminar will present case studies from mainland Portugal, the Azores and Spain, seeking to trace the similarities and differences that characterised the entailment model in the Iberian Peninsula during the Ancien Regime.


Organisation: IEM – Institute of Medieval Studies; CEPESE – Centre for Population, Economy and Society Studies
Scientific Coordination: Rita Sampaio da Nóvoa (CEPESE) and Maria de Lurdes Rosa (IEM-NOVA FCSH)