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Catholic Church --- Foreign relations --- Castile (Spain) --- Castile (Spain) --- Castile (Spain) --- Foreign relations --- Catholic Church. --- History --- History

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Behetrías --- Feudalism --- Power (Social sciences) --- History --- History --- Castile (Spain) --- Castile (Spain) --- History. --- Social conditions.

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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 importance 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, thereby demonstrating the crucial role played by this seigneurial structure within medieval Castilian society. This collection of essays thus focuses less on legal intricacies than on deeper social, territorial, and political issues, which are also examined in relation to other better-known forms of lordship exercised both within Castile and beyond. This volume provides rich historical material on medieval Castile rarely available to an English readership. It represents a gateway to a wealth of relatively little-known literature and information on the social history of medieval Spain and will provide an invaluable tool for comparative research.

History of Spain --- anno 1100-1199 --- anno 1200-1499 --- anno 1000-1099 --- Castile-La Mancha --- Castile and León --- Castilla-La Mancha --- Feudalism --- Spain --- Castile (Spain) --- Power (Social sciences) --- History --- To 1500 --- Social conditions --- Behetrías --- Empowerment (Social sciences) --- Political power --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Political science --- Social sciences --- Sociology --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Estates (Social orders) --- Land tenure --- History. --- Social conditions. --- Feudal tenure --- Civilization, Medieval --- Land use --- Land use, Rural --- Chivalry

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The kings of Castile maintained a personal cavalry guard through much of the fifteenth century, consisting of practicing Muslims and converts to Christianity. This privileged Muslim elite provides an interesting case-study to propose new theories about voluntary conversion from Christianity to Islam in the Iberian Peninsula, as well as the ways of assimilation of such a group into the local and courtly environments where they lived thereafter. Other subjects involved are the transformation of royal armies from feudal companies to regimented, professional forces including a well-trained cavalry, which in Castile was formed partly by these knights. Their descendants had to endure the changing policies conveyed by Isabel and Fernando, which increased discriminatory habits towards converts in Castilian society.

Christianity and other religions --- Guards troops --- Muslims --- Guards, Royal --- Royal guards --- Troops, Guards --- Soldiers --- Islam. --- History. --- Spain. --- Casa de S.M. el Rey (Spain). --- Castile (Spain)

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Charles --- Castile (Spain) --- Spain --- History --- Karel --- Carlos --- Karol --- Carlo --- Karl --- Karolus --- Carolus --- Charles-Quint --- 946.04 --- 946.04 Geschiedenis van Spanje: Karel V (I) en Philips II--(1516-1598) --- Geschiedenis van Spanje: Karel V (I) en Philips II--(1516-1598) --- Keizer Karel --- Charles - V, - Holy Roman Emperor, - 1500-1558. --- Castile (Spain) - History - Uprising, 1520-1521 --- Spain - History - Charles I, 1516-1556.