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Wednesday 4 April 2018 14.00 - 16.00
M-3 ELI04 Urban Hierarchisation Process in Castile. Late Medieval and Early Modern Period
PFC/02/017 Sir Peter Froggatt Centre
Networks: Elites and Forerunners , Middle Ages , Urban Chair: María Asenjo-González
Organizer: María Asenjo-González Discussant: Jesus Angel Solorzano-Telechea
Susana Guijarro : Clerical Elites in Late Medieval Castile
This paper is intended to present the main features that define cathedral clergy as a social elite in Castilian towns during the Fourteenth and the Fifteenth centuries. As a paradigm of the carriers and social networks of clerical elites in urban Medieval Spain. I will focus on the ... (Show more)
This paper is intended to present the main features that define cathedral clergy as a social elite in Castilian towns during the Fourteenth and the Fifteenth centuries. As a paradigm of the carriers and social networks of clerical elites in urban Medieval Spain. I will focus on the clergy of the city of Burgos, capital of the Kingdom of Castile and one of its largest dioceses. (Show less)

David Igual : Merchant Groups and Urban Oligarchies in Late Medieval Castile: Different Models of Interrelationship?
The aim of this paper is to compare four Castilian cities (Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo and Seville), based on primary and secondary sources above all in the period between the fifteenth century and the beginning of the sixteenth. The basis for the comparison is double: 1) The analysis of the composition ... (Show more)
The aim of this paper is to compare four Castilian cities (Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo and Seville), based on primary and secondary sources above all in the period between the fifteenth century and the beginning of the sixteenth. The basis for the comparison is double: 1) The analysis of the composition of merchants groups in each city, both in quantitative and qualitative terms; 2) The observation of the characteristics of institutions and political power and its members in the four cities. This initial research will allow to answer some questions: 1) What the interrelationship between merchant groups and urban oligarchies was in the different cities?; 2) Who and how many are the merchants who participated in the political ranks of each city?; 3) Is there a perfect correspondence between urban economic elites and urban political elites?; 4) Is it possible to conclude that there are several models in Castile with respect to the three first questions?; 5) Did all of this affect to urban hierarchisation process in Castile? (Show less)

Sean Perrone : The Council of the Cruzada and its Agents: the Limits on Royal Bureaucracy in the Early Sixteenth Century
This paper provides a prosopographical overview of the various members of the Council of the Crusade to understand the role of elites in the formation of the royal bureaucracy in the early sixteenth century.

Ángel Rozas : Merchants between Toledo and Madrid. Family Strategies of Social Mobility
At the end of the 15th century and the beginning of the 16th, Toledo was one of the main cities of Castile and its power spread among the surrounding territories. The city leaded an urban network where Madrid was included. Nevertheless, Madrid wasn’t just part of that urban network, but ... (Show more)
At the end of the 15th century and the beginning of the 16th, Toledo was one of the main cities of Castile and its power spread among the surrounding territories. The city leaded an urban network where Madrid was included. Nevertheless, Madrid wasn’t just part of that urban network, but also participated in some way in the leadership. For instance, some branches of major families of Toledo settled in Madrid, where they tried to increase their power and wealth. With this proposal, we pretend to research the socioeconomic strategies of some of the merchant families of Toledo who moved to Madrid in order to develop and improve their business management and also their social status. However, we will also investigate the opposite movement of some businessmen, who moved from Madrid to Toledo.
The question will be analyzed from two different points of view. On one hand, there will be an economic approach about the commercial and financial business of those businessmen and their families. On the other hand, we will follow this people in their pursuit of municipal positions or privileges. Using the prosopography as the main method, it will be possible to describe the family strategies which were deployed among Toledo and Madrid. (Show less)



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