Urban Political Identity in the Late Middle Ages: A Reflection on Communal Politics in Urban Castile in the Fifteenth Century
Although community was a process, a feeling of membership built and produced by all citizens on a day-by-day basis, the process was mostly mediated by a small fraction of the body politic that either acted as the representative of larger groups (e.g.: lesser noblemen, commoners) or intervened in the...
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| Tipo de recurso: | capítulo de libro |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2015 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha |
| Repositorio: | RUIdeRA. Repositorio Institucional de la UCLM |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ruidera.uclm.es:10578/41669 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/10578/41669 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Castile Fifteenth Century Late Middle Ages |
| Sumario: | Although community was a process, a feeling of membership built and produced by all citizens on a day-by-day basis, the process was mostly mediated by a small fraction of the body politic that either acted as the representative of larger groups (e.g.: lesser noblemen, commoners) or intervened in the definition of urban politics through holding public offices in the town. In this latter case, public officials, especially the regidores (the highest and more powerful officials in the city), faced the necessity to adapt their public behaviour to common good standards in order to make their rule legitimate, or at least acceptable, to their fellow citizens. The opposite inevitably led to confrontation, social disorder and strife.Acting in the field of public things, nourishing and growing an always complex and large category of common goods thus became one of the most important concerns for the regidores; even if acting in fact meant playing, that is if their implication in the persecution of common goods politics was more ideal than real. By analysing both policies -or strategies- in the case of the city of Cuenca, we will be in a position apt to define the way in which the upper socio-political echelons of the town politically interrelated with these notions, and experienced and accepted, or not, the participation of other social fractions in the process of enunciating, defining and implementing elements and politics of the common good. |
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