A Sea of Bulls: The Western Mediterranean and the “Curial Market” (1450-1750)
24 October 2024. From 18:30 | Conference | Spanish | IEMed
Antonio J. Díaz Rodríquez is lecturer at the faculty of Philosophy at the University of Córdoba, where he earned his PhD in History with the thesis El clero catedralicio en la España moderna: los miembros del Cabildo de la catedral de Córdoba (1475-1808). His research focuses on clergy and ecclesiastical venality in the Modern Age, Jewish converts in the Spanish-Portuguese clergy, and wine in the Kingdom of Córdoba (15th – 18th Centuries). He recently discovered a new, unknown facet of social reality in Southern Europe between the 16th and 19th Centuries related to the ecclesiastical which he labelled as the “curial market”. Among his recent publications are El mercado curial: bulas y negocios entre Roma y el mundo ibérico (Ediciones Universidad Valladolid, 2021) and “Roma y el patrimonio judeoconverso: negocios curiales y ascenso social entre los conversos andaluces (ss. XVI-XVII)” (Mediterranea – Ricerche Storiche, 2019).
ABSTRACT
During the Modern Age, the Western Mediterranean was the geographical setting of a business as fascinating as unknown until contemporary times. It consisted of an international market created by the Roman Curia where the intangible was sold: the divine grace.
Its socioeconomical, cultural and political relevance was such that, without it, we could not comprehend the real functioning of the Western Mediterranean of that time and age.
Speakers
Diego Sola
Senior Lecturer in Modern History and Coordinator of the Master’s Degree UB – Universitat de BarcelonaOrganised by
