The Flemish and German Nation of Seville

Collective Strategies and Institutional Development of the Northern European Merchant Community in Seville, Spain (1568-1598)

Author(s)

  • Germán Jiménez Montes University of Huelva

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52024/tseg.11456

Keywords:

Seville, Merchants, 16th Century

Abstract

This article studies how northern European migrants adapted their collective strategies to Seville’s institutional framework in the last third of the sixteenth century and how these strategies shaped the emergence of the so-called Flemish and German nation. It analyzes the group’s motivations to refuse the creation of a particularized commercial institution, as well as the alternative institutional mechanisms they developed to organize themselves in southern Spain. The article sheds light on the role of open-access institutions in Spain to facilitate long-distance trade and gives a new insight into the evolution of the commercial connections between the Spanish monarchy and the Dutch Republic during the Eighty Years’ War.

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Author Biography

  • Germán Jiménez Montes, University of Huelva

    Germán Jiménez Montes (1991) obtained his PhD in history in 2020 at the University of Groningen, with the dissertation A Dissimulated Trade: Flamencos and the Trade of North European Timber in Seville (1574-1598). He has published several papers in Spanish on the commercial activities of north European merchants in Andalusia in the sixteenth century. He is currently lecturer in Economic History at the University of Huelva, and researches the temporary migration of north European shipmasters in the Iberian Peninsula and the Spanish Americas.

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Published

2022-04-20

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How to Cite

The Flemish and German Nation of Seville: Collective Strategies and Institutional Development of the Northern European Merchant Community in Seville, Spain (1568-1598). (2022). TSEG - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, 19(1), 37-60. https://doi.org/10.52024/tseg.11456