Social mobility and urban elites of the south of the Duero: from the local cavalry to the urban nobility in Salamanca (13th-15th centuries)
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The article studies the process of social transformation of the urban elite in a city in the south of the Duero, Salamanca. The transition from its condition of frontier cavalry to authentic urban nobility, with all the signs of this -mayorazgo, lineages, etc.-, and with a profile of urban patriciate, constitutes a long historical process. The study focuses on the different levers that were added to the process between the 13th and 15th centuries: war, royal privileges, the formation of lineages, control of the urban government or a regime of land ownership and uses that it gave them differential advantages over the other inhabitants.
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