MANAGEMENT OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL AGRICULTURAL HERITAGE THROUGH LEASES IN SEVILLE OF THE 16TH AND 17TH CENTURIES (1570-1620). THE CONVENT OF SANTA CLARA DE CARMONA

His paper aims to address the management of the abundant rustic goods of the clergy. We start from the base that follows a line of action that provides profitability and security. The investigation employs notarial and specifically ecclesiastical documentation of Seville and Carmona in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Within the heterogeneity of the clergy, we analyze a case, that of the convent of Santa Clara de Carmona. The study confirms the efficiency of the Sevillian clergy in the administration of their rustic heritage following the prevailing system of exploitation at the time: the leases.