Justicia y sociedad en la Cataluña de los Austrias: magistrados y linajes nobiliarios

This article tries to establish the main features of the judicial system in Catalonia during the XVIth and XVIIth centuries. It represents a serious attempt of including the main items which affected the everyday life of Catalan jurists before the arrival of the Nova Planta Decree. Till now we have studied more or less each item but we needed to put all these data together. A difficult task which has been carried out, for the first time, in this study. Their social origins, professional experience and cultural incidence in the Catalan society are perhaps the main features of this article. Reshaping our knowledge is never easy but it casts new light on aspects which have been studied before without this general outlook.