Write to the king: the communication of the royal cities of the Castilian plateau with the Crown at the time of Carholic Kings

Abstract

In a society as the Castile in the late middle age that cities played an important role, the communication with the Crown was developed according to precise standars and a protocol. Nationals headed for the king to present their complaints an also your request, through a system written involving the councils and their writing more, through a regulated procedure in which documents were prepared to send to the king with a loaded concrete form is political symbolism. We will study the cases of some cities in the valley of the Duero and the Tajo through available documentary sources, representative cases of what was the reality for the whole of the Crown of Castile.