Financial documentation in the University's historical archives. The Salamanca mode

A HISTORIOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF THE ARCHIVE OF THE UNIVERSIDAD DE SALAMANCA, ONE OF EUROPE'S LARGEST AND SPAIN'S MOST IMPORTANT, WHICH AROSE AS AN INTELLECTUAL CENTER OF THEOLOGICAL AND JURIDICAL SCIENCES, ACCORDING TO THE DEMANDS AND NEEDS OF THE CHURCH AND STATE DURING THE XVI, XVII AND XVIII CENTURIES, AN EPOCH WHICH PROVIDES A MODEL TO FOLLOW. THE FINANCIAL FUNCTION OF THIS INSTITUTION INCLUDES ALL RECORDS OF INCOME, EXPENDITURES AND BALANCES, WHICH REFLECT THE UNIVERSITY'S ECONOMIC-BUDGETARY ACTIVITIES. FOR THIS REASON, THE AUTHOR HOLDS THAT A STUDY OF THE DOCUMENTATION GENERATED BY THE UNIVERSITY IS INDISPENSABLE FOR AN UNDERSTANDING OF UNIVERSITIES OF THE OLD REGIME.