The Construction and Management of the Religious Buildings in a Place of the Campo de Montiel: Alcubillas (1478-1550)

Abstract

Alcubillas was since its foundation a hamlet from “Campo de Montiel”, first it was Alhambra’s and then Montiel’s and it was attached to Membrilla’s administration until its emancipation as a town in 1539. In the final decades from 15th Century and the first half from 16th Century took place an important constructive process of the religious buildings in the population. The parochial church “Santa María Magdalena” and the hermitage “Nuestra Señora de la Carrasca” were renewed, new buildings were built as a substitution of the old ones, and at the same time two new hermitages were built: “San Ildefonso” and “San Sebastián”. The aim of this work is to know these spaces’ administration and evolution, the equipment and masters who worked in it, as well as to how the resources to finance these works were obtained, the possessions and the people who were in charge of the different tasks.