EL DOGMA DE LA INMACULADA CONCEPCIÓN COMO ARMA DE CONFRONTACIÓN TERRITORIAL EN LA SEVILLA DEL SIGLO XVII.

Departing from the data from the “Relación cronológica y ortográfica de libros publicados en Sevilla entre 1582 y 1621" –Domínguez Búrdalo, Rilce 25 (2009): 273-318–, this article analizes patronage and literary networks in Seville during Philip III's reign. In particular, we use the data to analyze the Sevillian echos of one of the biggest polemics from the seventeenth century: the controversy that arose around 1613 over the future dogma of the Inmaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary. Our study analyzes the essential aspects of the conflict, while relating theological disputes with another famous Golden Age controversy, that of the Leaden Books from the Sacromonte, and with the power struggle between the bishopric of Seville in the time of Archbishop Vaca de Castro and Philip III and the Duke of Lerma's court in Madrid. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]