En la crisis del sistema imperial español: conflictos jurisdiccionales en los tribunales napolitanos en vísperas de los motines de 1647-1648

Abstract

This present research article, analyze whit a qualitative methodology the political dynamics of the Kingdom of Naples between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, what is conditioned by the progressive rise of the Collateral Council, which, through the practice of “avocazioni”, abolishes the power of the other courts by crushing the bureaucratic mediation project, elaborated at the beginning of the sixteenth century, based on the possibility of creating an autonomous administrative group in the Kingdom. The pourpose, is underline that the age of Philip IV is a crucial moment for the history of the imperial system: the economics crisis, political tensions and the aristocratic strenghthening of society are the elements that characterize the history of Kingdom before the revolt of 1647-48. Finally, with the restoration training and development in the ranks of the administration of a nobility “di toga” which, in the mid seventeenth century, will assert political consciousness.