The Economic Role of Brotherhoods in the Twilight of the Colonial Period and the Rise of Commercial Societies: An Analysis of Colonial Records from San José (1837–1842)
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| Natura: | artículo original |
| Status: | Versión publicada |
| Data di pubblicazione: | 2011 |
| Descrizione: | The fraternities fulfilled not only a religious but also an economic role to own lands and act as financial institutions during the colony and to the first half of the nineteenth century. the local elites were linked to the economic operations of the fraternities, who formed a social network. Next to the capital managed by the Churchand its institutions (fraternities and different kind of foundations such as chantries (chaplaincies) and the entailed estates (mayorazgos) were alliances (societies) among individuals, peninsular Spanish and Creole to carry out investments and ventures, such as exploration for gold mines and later to foreign trade operations. the nineteenth century saw the rise of the liberal thought and a gradual disintegration of the goods immobilized by the church and its institutions, affecting the importance of these as economic agents. this also had consequences in the land property and civil and commercial law, which followed the encoder movement initiated in 1841 and consecrated in 1888 when the Civil Code entered into force. |
| Stato: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Istituzione: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Lingua: | Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.revistas.ucr.ac.cr:article/7248 |
| Accesso online: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/reconomicas/article/view/7248 |
| Keyword: | Historia económica Cofradías Siglo XIX Iglesia católica Liberalismo Capellanías Obras pías Mayorazgos Economic history Fraternities Nineteenth century Catholic Church Liberalism Chantries Chaplaincies Pious works Entailed estates |