En un Languedoc sacudido a fines del XIV por numerosas revueltas, la ciudad de Montpellier parece una excepción si consideramos la extraña estabilidad del gobierno urbano. Este artículo trata de explicar esta paradoja utilizando los registros de deliberación conservados que, a diferencia de otro tipo de fuentes, consignan cuidadosamente las diferencias de opinión aparecidas en el seno del concejo. Estas voces discordantes e identificables esclarecen de forma novedosa la comunicación política del gobierno urbano y permiten establecer la existencia de una verdadera esfera pública, cuyo registro escrito forma parte de una estrategia de gobierno a escala de la ciudad.
By the end of the fourteenth century, while the Languedoc province was being shaken by turmoil, the town of Montpellier appears to have enjoyed an exceptionally stable urban government. This paper attempts to study this paradox by resorting to extant deliberation records. Unlike most similar sources, the latter closely reflect the different views voiced in the course of council sessions. By focusing on such clearly identifiable discordant voices, we may shed new light on the political debate during the Montpellier consulate and furthermore posit the existence of a truly public sphere whose written records were part of a political strategy by the urban government.
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