Ordenanzas señoriales y vida cotidiana en el comienzo de la Edad Moderna segoviana

Abstract

The medieval councils had from their origins a number of regulations in order to preserve their interests. In the Low Middle Ages the self-government of the town councils was lessen in those villages which belonged to feudal states, as they worked in the interests of the aristocrats. The study of the by-laws in Fuentidueña, issued at the mid-sixteenth century, allows us to know through different issues the opposition of the population to obey some rules related to the forced leasure, work, supplies to the villages and, as a result, the bans and sentences.