Seigneurial Pressure: external Constrictions and Stimuli in the Construction of urban collective Identities in 15th century Castile

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Jara, José Antonio
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Seigneurial Pressure: external Constrictions and Stimuli in the Construction of urban collective Identities in 15th century Castile.
Imago temporis: medium Aevum, 2016, núm. 10, p. 267-289.
https://doi.org/10.21001/itma.2016.10.11.
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Seigneurial pressure, exerted on cities and towns and their municipal jurisdictions
by the nobility, constituted one of the dominant traits of Castilian politics in the 15th
century. Notwithstanding the extent and intensity that this pressure might reach
in general, few cities and towns were subjected to the (individual or coordinated)
actions of important numbers of noblemen. This was the case of the city of Cuenca.
This was one of the reasons explaining the relative success achieved by the city in
fighting these agreesions. The presence of a significant number of noblemen, each
of them seeking their own interest, lessened (relatively) their ability to depradate
Cuenca’s hinterland. This constriction (over the city and its jurisdiction) also
influenced both elites and commoners to adopt a cooperative line of action. This
way, Cuenca body politic laid out the key political traits of its communal political
identity. These policies and marks of identity were observed throughout the years
of civil war and, at least, until the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth I, when the
pressure exerted by the nobility was reduced to a reasonable dimension.
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