Estatuto social y representación política

Abstract

In the Basque country of the late Ancient Regime, the exercise of local power may be understood as a tissue of symbolic and relational elements that allowed its legitimisation, maintenance and extension to family and client networks. This symbolic capital was represented both in the iconography of public and private buildings, the ephimerous monuments related to festivities, pre-eminences, the exercise of clarity of the possession of a determined language and was managed to pending on certain and Crete class interests.