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Este artículo estudia el impacto de la movilización de recursos para la guerra a escala local. Analizando diversas fuentes, tanto privadas como administrativas, en el se reconstruyen las distintas actitudes de los habitantes de Antequera frente a las exigencias de la administración militar a principios del siglo XVI. Así mismo, se demuestra que los habitantes de las poblaciones dónde se llevaba a cabo la movilización de recursos para la guerra eran capaces de responder activamente frente a ella y adaptarla a sus intereses. Como consecuencia, la participación de las autoridades locales en la logística militar puede reconsiderarse como la única manera de conseguir el correcto abastecimiento y no una prueba de la llamada "devolución" de autoridad por parte del poder central. ; This article addresses the impact of the mobilisation of resources for war at the local level. By drawing on a wide array of sources (both private and administrative) I reconstruct the forms of contestation and opposition deployed by the inhabitants of Antequera face to the demands of the military administration at the beginning of the sixteenth century. In so doing, I aim to show that the inhabitants of cities where the mobilisation of resources for war used to take place could contest and adapt the demands of the military supply. As a result, the collaboration of the local authorities was far from being an example of "devolution" by central power, but to appear as the only way to ensure military supply. ; Este trabajo ha sido posible gracias a la financiación del proyecto "Construir y conservar lealtades colectivas. Soberanía y Élites en la Monarquía de España (siglos XVI y XVII)" (ref. HAR2012-39016-C04-02) ejecutado desde la universidad de Alcalá de Henares.

This article analyses the influence of confessional divides in the construction of a Mediterranean frontier between the Iberian Peninsula and the Maghreb at the very beginning of the early modern period. Questioning the influence that religious difference had on the geopolitics of the early modern Mediterranean could seem superfluous since historians have traditionally depicted the Mediterranean world as a space of confrontation between two confessional empires, the Ottoman and the Habsburg. Nevertheless, by focusing on a selection of diplomatic negotiations from the Western Mediterranean it appears that several actors envisioned a scenario where religious and political frontiers were far from coincide. This article will analyse the diplomatic negotiations promoted by different Muslim communities from the Maghreb to voluntarily enter under the rule of the Catholic Monarchs in the framework of the Spanish imperial expansion at the beginning of the sixteenth century. In studying these negotiations from an actor-based approach my aim is not to deny the religious or the political divide existing between the Christian and the Islamic shores. I will argue, however, that this frontier was constructed through the interaction of a wide array of agents such as local elites, royal officers, military men, religious actors, and rulers, with changing agendas towards religious difference.

The economic, political, financial and social crisis that broke out in 2008 has brought fateful consequences for the so-called welfare states. At the light of the social and ideological impact of this "crisis", social scientists have inquired themselves about how rulers financed their states in past times, what kind of solutions they created, or how did they deal with private capital markets. This article examines how historians have approached the "financial crises" that took place in Castile during the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries during the last decade. By focusing on the methodological tools that historians have mobilized and the analytical perspectives they have employed, four different topics are examined in the following pages: bankruptcies, debt, taxation and finance. ; La crisis económica, política, financiera y social que estalló en 2008 ha traído consecuencias nefastas para los llamados estados del bienestar. El impacto social e ideológico que ha provocado esta "crisis" ha puesto en el punto de mira de los científicos sociales los problemas que han tenido que confrontar los estados para financiarse en los mercados privados y las soluciones planteadas al respecto. El presente artículo se interroga por la manera en la que la historiografía se ha aproximado a las "crisis financieras" de la Castilla de los siglos XVI y XVII durante la última década, las herramientas metodológicas que se han empleado y las perspectivas de análisis que han sido utilizadas. A lo largo de sus páginas se pretende ofrecer una suerte de estado de la cuestión que discurre por diferentes aspectos como la historia de las bancarrotas, la deuda y fiscalidad, y las finanzas.