RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Os mesteirais e o poder concelhio nas cidades medievais portuguesas (séculos XIV e XV) A1 Sousa Melo, Arnaldo Rui Azevedo de A2 Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid K1 Edad Media AB This paper aims to characterize the several ways of interaction between artisans and the municipal authorities in medieval Portuguese towns of the 14th and 15th centuries. The analysis focuses on the forms adopted by the artisans' relations with the municipal power, their modes of representation and the several ways in which craftsmen became associated, while at the same time addressing specific issues of contestation and resistance. The overarching goal of this paper is to shed some light on the construction of political power by artisan groups in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and more generally to trace an overall picture of medieval Portuguese towns, so that it primarily draws on a number of sources concerning several Portuguese cities, particularly Porto, Lisbon and Evora. SN 1138-9621 YR 2013 FD 2013 LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/11588 UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/11588 LA spa NO Edad Media: revista de historia, 2013, N.14, pags.149-170 DS UVaDOC RD 28-jun-2024