Las autoridades civiles de Navarra ante el desorden público : control y represión en el Antiguo Régimen

Abstract

The social stability was the main yearning of the civilian authorities in the Navarre of the Old Regime. For that reason for its attainment they did not doubt in resorting to different directed measures all of them to discipline the injurious conducts of its inhabitants. Between these last ones we were with the public disorders, who tried to be controlled by their ominous consequences for the communitarian well-being. In its strategy to manage to control and to repress this type of behaviours they used different mechanisms that are going to be analyzed in the present article. All this with the unique objective to clarify which was the attitude of the civilian authorities in the Kingdom of Navarre.