Publication: Los contextos sociales e institucionales de una economía monástica: Santa María de Montederramo en el siglo XIII
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Marcial Pons : Centro de Estudios Constitucionales : Fundación Fomento de la Historia Económica
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La autora se pregunta por las causas de la consolidación y pervivencia
de formas institucionales ineficientes desde un punto de vista económico. Se
estudia un caso concreto: el monasterio cisterciense de Santa María de Montederramo
(Orense) en el siglo XIII para poner en evidencia la existencia de
marcos institucionales formales e informales definidores de la acción de unos
agentes cuyos intereses se construyeron en el proceso de interacción social,
es decir, en contextos socio-culturales determinados y no como fruto de la
limitación institucional sobre la naturaleza maximizadora de agentes extemporales.
En primer lugar, el artículo presenta las paradojas en los debates
clásicos sobre el Císter. Atendiendo a la Regla de la Orden, se acepta que
el Císter perseguía varios objetivos: la compactación de las parcelas adquiridas,
la tenencia en régimen de propiedad no compartida y la explotación de la
tierra con mano de obra propia. A partir del caso elegido se reflexiona sobre
la distancia entre los principios teóricos de la Orden y la morfología diversa
de los señoríos y sus formas de gestión práctica. Se concluye que los monasterios
se convirtieron en aparatos acumuladores de bienes invirtiendo recursos
según criterios de reciprocidad, redistribución, identidad y estableciendo redes
con las comunidades o con algunos de sus miembros destacados. En este
compacto entramado de dinámicas sociales y mentales se fueron configurando
sus formas económicas.
The author searches into the reasons for the perpetuation in inefficient institutions. The monastery in Sta. María de Montederramo (Orense, Galicia) in the 13th century lets to underline the existence of formal and informal institutions defíning agents' cholees whose interests are building up in the process of social interaction. Moreover those interests emerge within socio-cultural context, rather than as the outcome of the institutional constreints over a given nature as profit maximazers. The article reviews the classical debate about the Cister. Given the Rule of the Order it is argued that Cistercians pursued the organization of coherent territorial estates, exclusive property rights over the land and own labour force. Working on the case-study, the gap between the theoretical principie of the Order and the specif management and contractual agreements about land tenancy are considered. The conclusion puts forward that monasteries were devices of accumulation because they developed practices of reciprocity, redistribution and identity within the peasant communities and through the organization of personal and social networks with some of the outstanding members of the local community. In the tied web of social and cultural dynamics, the economic patterns were hammered out.
The author searches into the reasons for the perpetuation in inefficient institutions. The monastery in Sta. María de Montederramo (Orense, Galicia) in the 13th century lets to underline the existence of formal and informal institutions defíning agents' cholees whose interests are building up in the process of social interaction. Moreover those interests emerge within socio-cultural context, rather than as the outcome of the institutional constreints over a given nature as profit maximazers. The article reviews the classical debate about the Cister. Given the Rule of the Order it is argued that Cistercians pursued the organization of coherent territorial estates, exclusive property rights over the land and own labour force. Working on the case-study, the gap between the theoretical principie of the Order and the specif management and contractual agreements about land tenancy are considered. The conclusion puts forward that monasteries were devices of accumulation because they developed practices of reciprocity, redistribution and identity within the peasant communities and through the organization of personal and social networks with some of the outstanding members of the local community. In the tied web of social and cultural dynamics, the economic patterns were hammered out.
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Revista de Historia Económica Año XVII Invierno 1999 n. 1 pp. 51--88