The Flemish and German Nation of Seville: Collective Strategies and Institutional Development of the Northern European Merchant Community in Seville, Spain (1568-1598)

This article studies how northern European migrants adapted their collective strate-gies to Seville’s institutional framework in the last third of the sixteenth century and how these strategies shaped the emergence of the so-called Flemish and German nation. It analyzes the group’s motivations to re...

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Autor: Jiménez Montes, Germán
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias (IVIA)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/174155
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/174155
https://doi.org/10.52024/tseg.11456
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Seville
Merchants
16th Century
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Sumario:This article studies how northern European migrants adapted their collective strate-gies to Seville’s institutional framework in the last third of the sixteenth century and how these strategies shaped the emergence of the so-called Flemish and German nation. It analyzes the group’s motivations to refuse the creation of a particularized commercial institution, as well as the alternative institutional mechanisms they de-veloped to organize themselves in southern Spain. The article sheds light on the role of open-access institutions in Spain to facilitate long-distance trade and gives a new insight into the evolution of the commercial connections between the Spanish monarchy and the Dutch Republic during the Eighty Years’ War.