Elites y grupos financieros en las ciudades castellanas de la Baja Edad Media

Abstract

This paper deals with the notion of urban fiscality from a social perspective, giving priority to the social actor's participation in the processes of management of urban public funds, and to the analysis of the multiple social positions and social network from where they depart and are built along that process, relocating them inside the urban system. Thus, I have focused this contribution on the emergence processes of financial groups as a sign of the individual, family and lineage's involving degree in the diverse processes of socioeconomic and political projection developed in a concrete space, the city of Cuenca, and in a particular sphere of its resources subsystem, the farming of urban rents.