Relaciones familiares en la Valencia tardomedieval. Consanguinidad y afinidad a través de las manifestaciones de últimas voluntades

Abstract

The present work is an approach to the mentality that society of a group of cities in the south of the medieval kingdom of Valencia, addressed their family relationships through information provided by a set of wills. It aims to analyze how the idea of belonging to a group of blood lives in different individuals and even undergoes changes with the realities arising from the common life within the nuclear family. To do this, we have studied the wills of a number of people, mostly carried out their work in the textile manufacturing Alcoy, Ontinyent and Bocairent, south of the province of Valencia and north of Alicante, establishing relations work organization, participation of women in the workplace and the changes in family model.