Between Economy and Devotion: Parish Identity in the Territorial Reconfiguration of Rural Parishes (Lugo, 18th-19th Centuries)
Abstract
The parish was a important component of identity in the XVIIIth and XIXth centuries, due to it was the first unit of residence and it configured as the main framework of sociability. The analysis of conflicts about parish territory shows a dense and stable identity world view. So that belonging to a parish wasn’t only conditioned exclusively by the residence and devotion, but also several elements which were used by populations in order to argue and defend their own parish territory, such as economic or patrimonial factors.
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