Petition and response as social process: Royal power, justice and the people in late medieval Castile ( c.1474–1504)

IF 1.8 1区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
Yanay Israeli
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This article analyses the petition and response process in late medieval Castile, focusing on petitions of grievance submitted to the Royal Council during the reign of Isabel I and Fernando II (r.1474–1504). Studies published in recent decades have revised our understanding of petitionary practices and their significance to systems of governance in medieval and early modern Europe. One persistent gap in this scholarship, however, concerns the ‘aftermath’ of petitioning — that is, the occurrences that followed the grant of petitions and the issuance of royal decrees in response. Drawing on the rich documentation that has survived from late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century Castile, this article highlights the importance of studying the local spaces of interactions where beneficiaries of royal decrees tried to bring them into effect through acts of claims-making. The evidence from Castile is mobilized to illuminate the forms of negotiation and contestation that informed the presentations of ‘letters of justice’ issued by the Royal Council, the mechanisms used by the royal authority to enforce its commands, and the ways that factors such as speed, publicity and violence shaped the meanings petitioning assumed in different contexts of dispute. The analysis of petitioning bears implications for understanding royal power in the Castilian monarchy, drawing attention to a pattern of intensifying communications between the central royal government and non-elites. As they petitioned the Royal Council, thousands of Castilians sought empowerment in local disputes. At the same time, mass participation in the petitioning process played a major role in legitimizing royal power and furthering its embeddedness in the localities.
作为社会过程的请愿与回应:中世纪晚期卡斯蒂利亚的王权、正义与人民(c.1474-1504)
本文分析了中世纪晚期卡斯蒂利亚的请愿和回应过程,重点关注伊莎贝尔一世和费尔南多二世统治时期(1474 - 1504)向皇家委员会提交的申诉。最近几十年发表的研究修订了我们对请愿实践及其对中世纪和早期现代欧洲治理体系的意义的理解。然而,这一学术研究中一个持续存在的差距是关于请愿的“后果”——即在授予请愿和发布皇家法令作为回应之后发生的事情。根据15世纪晚期和16世纪早期卡斯蒂利亚幸存下来的丰富文献,本文强调了研究当地互动空间的重要性,在这些互动空间中,皇家法令的受益者试图通过提出主张的行为将它们付诸实施。来自卡斯蒂利亚的证据被用来阐明谈判和争论的形式,这些形式为皇家委员会发布的“正义之书”提供了信息,皇家当局用来执行其命令的机制,以及速度、公开和暴力等因素如何塑造请愿在不同争议背景下的意义。对上访的分析对理解卡斯蒂利亚君主制中的王权具有重要意义,它使人们注意到中央王室政府与非精英阶层之间加强沟通的模式。成千上万的卡斯蒂利亚人向皇家议会请愿,寻求在当地纠纷中获得权力。与此同时,群众参与上访过程对王权的合法化和进一步深化王权在地方的嵌入发挥了重要作用。
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Past & Present
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期刊介绍: Founded in 1952, Past & Present is widely acknowledged to be the liveliest and most stimulating historical journal in the English-speaking world. The journal offers: •A wide variety of scholarly and original articles on historical, social and cultural change in all parts of the world. •Four issues a year, each containing five or six major articles plus occasional debates and review essays. •Challenging work by young historians as well as seminal articles by internationally regarded scholars. •A range of articles that appeal to specialists and non-specialists, and communicate the results of the most recent historical research in a readable and lively form. •A forum for debate, encouraging productive controversy.
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