This work offers an up-to-date discussion of medieval Castilian lordship and social relations, approached through an analysis of behetría lordship, a power-structure of fundamental importante in medieval Castile. The origins of behetría lordship, a complex phenomenon in both theory and practice, are obscure. Knowledge of the behetrías has therefore hitherto been limited to a narrow circle of traditionalist, highly specialized legal historians. The present volume redresses this imbalance, as its various contributors explore the question of behetría lordship from a broad social perspective,...
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