[EN] Following a first part which describes the class organization and distribution in Madrid in 1591,) comparing this with that of Leon in the same year, establishing differences and drawing analogies better the two and using the same as indicative of "modernity", in the second part, following the methodological tendencies afl historical sociology, we defend a model which is demopolitical, or perharps it would he more exact to say complementary, to the dernoecononiical model offered, ir order to undertake a study of the family from an historical view-pointy. Family organizations, in the plural, with characteristics which are different according to multivariable. Class, economical situation, location, etc., but in the tole of priority power belonging to the males; head of the family has been dilated, which is highly chronological with the solving of the increasing inilue roya1 power, reflected in the family, which is also shown in hierarchization, moralization and sexual economy of the family, published in ecclesiastic circler by means the sermon and the confessional ad legitimated by Council of Trent.

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