IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 331: Imposing Norms, Enforcing Rules, and Relativizing Socio-Political Stress, II: (In)Formal Economic Procedures in the Late Medieval Iberian Urban World
Monday 9 July 2012, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha |
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| Organiser: | José Antonio Jara Fuente, Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación y Humanidades, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha |
| Moderator/Chair: | Flocel Sabaté Curull, Grup de Recerca Consolidat en Estudis Medievals 'Espai, poder I cultura', Universitat de Lleida |
| Paper 331-a | 'For the Service of the King': Legitimating Private Economic Attitudes and Ordering Collective Socio-Political Relations - Castilian Urban Businessmen in the Late Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Urban, Local History, Social History |
| Paper 331-b | Collecting Royal Taxes in Castile: Rules, Practices, and Pacts between Monarchy and Towns at the End of the 15th Century in the Kingdom of Toledo (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - General, Economics - Urban, Local History, Social History |
| Paper 331-c | Identifying Businessmen in Castile: The Ruling Economic Elite of Talavera de la Reina in the mid-15th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Urban, Local History, Social History |
| Abstract | 'Un-ruled' or 'over-ruled' societies are open to different levels of socio-political distress leading even to social dissolution. Society needs society, that is a set of social agents whose well lubricated interactions allow the reduction of distress to tolerable levels. And 'norm-alizing' societies is not simply a question of formally imposing or complying with rules. Sometimes informal procedures (whether they finally acquire a formal sanction or not) produce an acquiescence to society's norms much deep and intense than formal procedures do. This double session will centre on the normative results produced by the conjunction of both procedures on the urban arena. |