Estudiantes de condición nobiliaria en la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (siglos XVII y XVIII): aproximación a su perfil sociológico

Abstract

The lecture halls of the University of Santiago de Compostela were in part filled with the scions of noble families during the Early Modern period. Their academic education was financed in the hope of subsequently gaining an office in the Church or civil government. What this article tries to address in the following pages is the sociology of this privileged sector in relation to the larger student body. The fact that they were numerically limited among university students —although more numerous among students in the schools— is balanced by their close relations with classmates from upwardly mobile families. This-gives weight to the hypothesis that noble ideology prevailed within the elites of Galicia during the Ancien Régime.