El mundo del libro a través de las relaciones clientelares en la Sevilla de entresiglos (1582-1621)

Abstract

The list of dedications that appeared in the books published in Seville during these years reveals the tensions between the Madrid court and the city of Seville that appeared during the reign of Philip III, underscoring how the Andalusian capital stood in defiance outside of the patronage network that the Duke of Lerma established from Madrid, a network that scholars thought encompassed all the Iberian Peninsula. Therefore, the "Relació n" (here included as an appendix) conforms "per se" a corpus that, departing from the book's milieu, makes it possible to closely examine political, religious, and social history the proliferation of printings on the Immaculate Conception, which constitutes the foundation for a controversy that went beyond its theological essence to become a weapon for political intrigues.