How to become a canon in the sixteenth century: ways of access to the cathedral chapter of Santiago de Compostela

This article is based on takeovers and providing tools to examine in detail the characteristics of the ways of access to the cathedral chapter of Santiago in XVIth century, through statistical and evolutionary analysis and comparison with other Castilian chapters of the Modern Age according to benefice's typology. Similarly, it's studied the questions of pensions, prebends accumulation and internal promotion, as well as conditional way as a factor of social reproduction and inheritability of chapter benefices.