Algunas manifestaciones de la crisis de las explotaciones ganaderas trashumantes en la Corona de Castilla durante las últimas décadas del siglo XVI

Contribution to the study of the evolution of the profitability of the transhumant sheeprearing enterprises in the Crown of Castile during the six -teenth century, from the point of view of the influence exercised upon it by the evolution of the wool market. The author annalyses a very diversified, fragmentary and dispersed group of sources referred to the region of Soria. Besides the available information about profits and losses of some transhumant sheeprearing enterprises, he takes into account the available information about wool prices during the second half of the sixteenth century, and he establishes some connexions between this information and other signs that inform about the evolution of the profitability of these interprises. He arrives to the conclusion that, according to the information available for the region of Soria, we cannot admit that the period of economic difficulties for the transhumant sheeprearing enterprises started before the decade of 1570, because the decade of 1560 was still a very prosperous one for them