IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 252: Realities and Representations of Power in Urban Castile at the End of the Middle Ages, I: Royal Agents and the Town
Monday 1 July 2019, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca / Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
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| Organisers: | José Antonio Jara Fuente, Departamento de Historia, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca Alicia Inés Montero Málaga, Departamento de Historia Antigua y Historia Medieval, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
| Moderator/Chair: | Alicia Inés Montero Málaga, Departamento de Historia Antigua y Historia Medieval, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
| Paper 252-a | Expressions of Royal Power in Castilian Towns: Royal Continos and Urban Officers in Andalusia at the End of the 15th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Local History, Political Thought |
| Paper 252-b | Royal Taxation, Political Integration, and Cooperative Instruments: The Case of Seville, 1480-1504 (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Urban, Local History |
| Paper 252-c | Submissive Towns?: Channelling Royal Centralization through Cooperation - Keepers of the Town in Castile at the End of the 15th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Local History, Political Thought |
| Abstract | After long years of civil war, from 1480 onwards a successful programme of political centralization was already underway in Castile. Its main lines had been essayed, opposed, transacted, and finally imposed by a triumphant monarchy profiting from the cooperation offered by towns and a large section of the nobility to help end the war. This cooperation was not given unconditionally but it nevertheless led to the establishment of more fluid channels of communication and the emergence/consolidation of centralized governmental institutions all political players accepted. |