“Que buen provecho hagan al postor”. Fraude y oportunidad durante la desamortización del monasterio de San Prudencio de Monte Laturce en el trienio liberal: el caso Manuel María García

The ecclesiastical confiscations of the Liberal Triennium continue being a mystery in the historiography of La Rioja (Spain). The same can be said of the history of the monastery of San Prudencio, one of the confiscated institutions, in its last decades of existence as well. Part of the aim of this article will be to put some light on these subjects. But the most important purpose will be to illustrate some of the means used by the new-born elite of Logroño to consolidate its economical power in the region in the tumultuous beginning of Spanish Nineteenth Century