Land, Power, and Society in Medieval Castile: A Study of Behetria Lordship

by Perez-alfaro, Cristina Jular; Diez, Carlos Estepa

• ISBN13: 9782503526232
• ISBN10: 2503526233
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-12-31
• Publisher: Isd

Summary

This series comprises regional studies in the rural history of the European continent during the Middle Ages (concentrating on the period 1000-1500). Integrating written records, archaeology, and research on the history of the landscape and environment, the books profile work on particular regions in detail. Implicitly and explicitly the series seeks to generate a comparative vocabulary and understanding of phenomena that heretofore have been studied in their local settings. These studies offer broader implications for the history of the seigneurial regime of the Middle Ages, and concern such topics as the history of servitude, the settlement of the land, the functioning of the economy, food, and agricultural practices.

Table of Contents

List of Maps	p. vii
List of Tables	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Castilian Behetría Lordship: From Current Perspectives towards a European Context	p. 1
Supra-local Territorial Units: On the Origins of Behetría Lordship	p. 29
Bebetría Lordship and Royal Power	p. 59
The Lordships of the Rojas Family Group in 1352	p. 89
Nobility and Patronage: The Velascos, a Case Study	p. 177
Solariego Peasants in Castile's Late Medieval Bebetrías	p. 229
Conflict in the Behetrías	p. 275
Sources and Bibliography	p. 317
Contributors	p. 329
Glossary	p. 333
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