La empresa agraria monástica en Andalucía. Gestión de las explotaciones agrarias de la orden cartuja (siglos XV-XIX)

Abstract

Along the centuries the management of the conventual domains have treated to the changes of the economical conjunctu re. These transformations in the negotiation had like main objetive an increase of the profits. With the analysis of the exploitations practised by the andalusians carthusians we treat to show how the main changes have been in the management from patrimony, reduction of the rental´s durations, subtitutions of the rents in species for rents in money, introductions of cultivations of more economical rentability and, for last, the direct exploitation, that allow to diversify the sources of earnings, it produced a notable increase of the monastic incomes.