Political Involvement of Taxpayers in Ciudad Rodrigo during Late Feudalism: From the Use of Formal Rhetoric in Discourse to the Creation of a Specific Political Culture
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Based on late medieval municipal records from Ciudad Rodrigo, it is possible to identify political mechanisms used by taxpayers, both of resistance and concrete action in the context of the centralization of royal power and a process of progressive socio-economic differentiation of the peasant communities. It is in this historical context that a “political culture” was created by the richest taxpayers. This can be traced in the records through certain strategies such as the use of political discourse that expressed a dichotomy between ‘privileged’ and ‘non-privileged’ to achieve the results they were aiming for.Downloads
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