RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Didáctica de las relaciones políticas ciudad-nobleza en la cuenca del siglo XV: "Çercada de muchos contrarios" A1 Jara Fuente, José Antonio A2 Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid K1 Edad Media AB It is a well-known fact that political relationships between the nobility and towns in fifteenth-century Castile possessed a basically conflictive nature. John II's minority and the continuous episodes of civil war that followed one another during the reigns of John II and Henry IV, until the triumph of the Elizabethan party in 1480, facilitated the use of violence by the nobility, especially as an instrument for the appropriation of royal justice and revenues, and the illegal seizure of districts under municipal jurisdiction. While not denying this reality, the aim of this work is to analyze the way in which the towns tried to solve these conflicts not only by exerting their own violence but also by implementing other resources of an ideological-discursive nature. The use of those referents (and of their frame of reference) not only led to a decrease in noble violence but even to the generation of mechanisms and practices of cooperation between the towns and the nobility. This cooperation tended to satisfy the interests (even if purely opportunistic) of both sides. SN 1138-9621 YR 2013 FD 2013 LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/11593 UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/11593 LA spa NO Edad Media: revista de historia, 2013, N.14, pags.105-127 DS UVaDOC RD 27-abr-2024