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Gentlemen-Merchant in Fifteenth-Century Urban Castile: Forms of Life and Social Aspiration
The aim of this study is to compare four Castilian cities (Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo and Seville), based on primary and secondary sources above all in the period between the fifteenth century and the beginning of the sixteenth. The basis for the comparison is double: 1) The analysis of the composition of merchants groups in each city, both in quantitative and qualitative terms; 2) The observation of the characteristics of institutions and political power and its members in the four cities. This research tries to answer some questions: 1) What the interrelationship between merchant groups and urban oligarchies was in the different cities?; 2) Who and how many are the merchants who participated in the political ranks of each city?; 3) Is there a perfect correspondence between urban economic elites and urban political elites?; 4) Is it possible to conclude that there are several models in Castile with respect to the three first questions?
The aim of this paper is to compare four Castilian cities (Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo and Seville), based on primary and secondary sources above all in the period between the fifteenth century and the beginning of the sixteenth. The basis for the comparison is double: 1) The analysis of the composition of merchants groups in each city, both in quantitative and qualitative terms; 2) The observation of the characteristics of institutions and political power and its members in the four cities. This research allows to answer some questions: 1) What the interrelationship between merchant groups and urban oligarchies was in the different cities?; 2) Who and how many are the merchants who participated in the political ranks of each city?; 3) Is there a perfect correspondence between urban economic elites and urban political elites?; 4) Is it possible to conclude that there are several models in Castile with respect to the three first questions?
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