The trade with fine wools from the transhumant sheep of the Castilian district of Cuenca between the fourteenth and the seventeenth centuries

Abstract

 The district of Cuenca was one of the four districts to which the sheepowners that were members of the Castilian guild called “Mesta” and inhabited the mountainous  regions of the kingdom belonged. But sheepowners who inhabited the districts of the plains, mainly in the province of Ciudad Rea.l were also admitted as members. In this article the author pays attention to tre commercialization of the fine wools that were sold by the ranchers of the mountanious sector of the district, around the towns of Molina de Aragón and Cuenca. He differentiates berween fine wools,produced by the transhumnant cattle, and the coarse ones produced by the non transhumant herds.He informs about the different prices taht were paid for them., and rhe contract models that were employed and their relation with the prices.