Institutional representation as a way of social and professional promotion: the case of the carpenters and bricklayers from Pamplona

Abstract

This article talks about three different ways of social and professional promotion for some builders and carpenters who lived in Pamplona throughout the Baroque centuries. All of them involved working as officials for the most important institutions that where located there, because of her condition of viceregal court, Episcopal see and kingdom’s capital: Parliament, cathedral and town council. Unpublished data about their appointments, duties and works are offered.