The “loving care with which they are taken care of in them was due to hunting and forest species”: the process of enclosing the Monte de El Pardo in the time of Fernando VI

• Published in: Revista de história da sociedade e da cultura no. 1; pp. 267 - 294
• Main Author: Labrador Arroyo, Félix
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: 18th century; Carlos III; Charles III; El Pardo; Ferdinand VI; Fernando VI; royal sites; siglo XVIII; sitio real

In this paper we will analyse the process of enclosure of El Pardo in the times of Ferdinand VI, an area of mixed use, both by the crown and by private individuals, where the monarch exercised, through the hunting boundaries, jurisdictional control over the whole area, a fundamental instrument of th...