Documentos cancillerescos de Cortes en la Corona de Castilla en la Baja Edad Media

Abstract

The Spanish Parliament in Castile and León during the XIVth and XVth century was one of the most important institutions of the Kingdom. They were an instrument of mediation between the king and the society across his estates, basically the cities. From his functioning they derived multitude of documents that correspond with each of the phases of the parliamentary process. Great part of the same ones there were elaborated and sent from the Royal Chancery and generated a typology own and adapted to every circumstance, which is the one that we will show in this work. He is the exponent of an institutional diplomat, who not only is defined by the authority or the issuing organism, but basically for the bureaucratic process that generates it.