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Conservation and Production of Woodlands and Royal Forests in the Early Modern Iberian Peninsula
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Studies on early modern woodlands typically focus on the production, conservation, or management of forests in regard to a specific socio-economic activity (i.e., shipbuilding, mining), or are centred on particular case studies in specific land tenures. This is the first volume to address the production, conservation, and management of woodlands and royal forests on the early modern Iberian Peninsula across different land tenures, forest environments, bioclimatic regions, and jurisdictional arrangements, on a wide spatial and temporal scale. Each chapter offers an innovative argument which is based on solid archival research and an up-to-date bibliography.
Contributors are: Ángel Ignacio Aguilar Cuesta, Concepción Camarero Bullón, Ignacio Ezquerra Revilla, Francisco Fernández Izquierdo, José Eloy Hortal Muñoz, Alfredo José Martínez González, Francisco J. Moreno Díaz del Campo, Cristina Joanaz de Melo, Félix Labrador Arroyo, Ana Luna San Eugenio, Raúl Romero-Calcerrada, and Koldo Trapaga- Monchet.
Contributors are: Ángel Ignacio Aguilar Cuesta, Concepción Camarero Bullón, Ignacio Ezquerra Revilla, Francisco Fernández Izquierdo, José Eloy Hortal Muñoz, Alfredo José Martínez González, Francisco J. Moreno Díaz del Campo, Cristina Joanaz de Melo, Félix Labrador Arroyo, Ana Luna San Eugenio, Raúl Romero-Calcerrada, and Koldo Trapaga- Monchet.
Koldo Trapaga-Monchet, Ph.D (2015), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, is Professor of Early Modern History at Rey Juan Carlos University. His research mainly centres on the environmental history of early modern Portugal, with a special focus on forest management and shipbuilding. He published and coordinated monographs, articles, and book chapters. Among his recent publications are “Revisiting the Narrative of Deforestation in the Central and Southern Mainland Early Modern Portugal as a ‘Ruined Landscape’: The Case of Shipbuilding in Lisbon” (History 110: 389, 2025), and the volume Roots of Sustainability in the Iberian Empires: Shipbuilding and Forestry, 14th–19th centuries (together with Álvaro Aragón-Ruano and Cristina Joanaz de Melo, Routledge 2023).
Félix Labrador Arroyo, Ph.D. (2007), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, is Full Professor of Early Modern History at Rey Juan Carlos University. His research focuses on the royal sites in Spain, more precisely on their administration and materiality in the early modern age. He has published more than 150 articles and contributions to collective works, as well as nine books, such as La configuración de la imagen de la Monarquía Católica. El ceremonial de la capilla real de Manuel Ribeiro (Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert 2020) and Las legumbres del Rey”. Mesa y alimentación en la Corte (siglos XVI–XIX) (Dykinson 2020).
Félix Labrador Arroyo, Ph.D. (2007), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, is Full Professor of Early Modern History at Rey Juan Carlos University. His research focuses on the royal sites in Spain, more precisely on their administration and materiality in the early modern age. He has published more than 150 articles and contributions to collective works, as well as nine books, such as La configuración de la imagen de la Monarquía Católica. El ceremonial de la capilla real de Manuel Ribeiro (Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert 2020) and Las legumbres del Rey”. Mesa y alimentación en la Corte (siglos XVI–XIX) (Dykinson 2020).
List of Figures, Charts and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Koldo Trapaga-Monchet and Félix Labrador Arroyo
1 The Articulation of Courtly Jurisdiction at the Royal Sites: the Shaping of a Complex Patchwork
Ignacio Ezquerra Revilla
2 The Royal Forests in the Spanish Monarchy’s System of Royal Geographies: Offfijices and Social Integration during the Seventeenth Century
José Eloy Hortal Muñoz
3 Institutionalization of Forestry Management for Naval Construction in the Spanish Monarchy (16th–19th Centuries)
Alfredo José Martínez González
4 The King’s Woodlands: Managing the Forestry Resources of Military Orders in Southern Castile during the Sixteenth Century
Francisco Fernández Izquierdo and Francisco J. Moreno Díaz del Campo
5 Fire Hazards, Forest Protection and Production in Portugal: the Pinewood of Leiria during the Habsburg Dynasty (1580–1640)
Koldo Trapaga-Monchet
6 Forestry Capability and Sustainability in the Monteiro-mor Ordinance of 1605 Study Area
Raúl Romero-Calcerrada and Koldo Trapaga-Monchet
7 Woodland in the Ensenada Cadastre: Distribution, Composition and Role in the Peasant Economy
Concepción Camarero Bullón, Ángel Ignacio Aguilar Cuesta and Ana Luna San Eugenio
8 Empire, Timber and Wine: the Interconnected Dimensions Landscaping Forests in the 1700s
Cristina Joanaz de Melo
9 Shaping and Boosting the Economic Viability of a Royal Space for Agricultural and Livestock Production: the Royal Site of La Florida (1787–1814)
Félix Labrador Arroyo
Index
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Koldo Trapaga-Monchet and Félix Labrador Arroyo
1 The Articulation of Courtly Jurisdiction at the Royal Sites: the Shaping of a Complex Patchwork
Ignacio Ezquerra Revilla
2 The Royal Forests in the Spanish Monarchy’s System of Royal Geographies: Offfijices and Social Integration during the Seventeenth Century
José Eloy Hortal Muñoz
3 Institutionalization of Forestry Management for Naval Construction in the Spanish Monarchy (16th–19th Centuries)
Alfredo José Martínez González
4 The King’s Woodlands: Managing the Forestry Resources of Military Orders in Southern Castile during the Sixteenth Century
Francisco Fernández Izquierdo and Francisco J. Moreno Díaz del Campo
5 Fire Hazards, Forest Protection and Production in Portugal: the Pinewood of Leiria during the Habsburg Dynasty (1580–1640)
Koldo Trapaga-Monchet
6 Forestry Capability and Sustainability in the Monteiro-mor Ordinance of 1605 Study Area
Raúl Romero-Calcerrada and Koldo Trapaga-Monchet
7 Woodland in the Ensenada Cadastre: Distribution, Composition and Role in the Peasant Economy
Concepción Camarero Bullón, Ángel Ignacio Aguilar Cuesta and Ana Luna San Eugenio
8 Empire, Timber and Wine: the Interconnected Dimensions Landscaping Forests in the 1700s
Cristina Joanaz de Melo
9 Shaping and Boosting the Economic Viability of a Royal Space for Agricultural and Livestock Production: the Royal Site of La Florida (1787–1814)
Félix Labrador Arroyo
Index
This book will be of particular relevance to academic institutes, libraries, specialists, and post-graduate and doctoral students interested in environmental history, administrative history ecological history, forestry, early modern history, court studies, and agroforestry studies.