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La presión fiscal, el incumplimiento de los acuerdos entre la corona y los mudéjares o las conversiones forzosas, fueron algunos de los motivos que llevaron a la población musulmana a sublevarse en distintos lugares del antiguo Reino de Granada entre finales de 1499 y primeros meses de 1501. Utilizando fuentes municipales y nacionales, éste trabajo trata de estudiar la contribución de las milicias concejiles de varias localidades andaluzas para sofocar este levantamiento, analizando los mecanismos empleados para su reclutamiento, los lugares que participaron, el coste del mantenimiento de la hueste y los problemas que generó el, cada vez mayor, incumplimiento de las obligaciones militares de algunos miembros de la sociedad de la época. ; Tax pressure, failure to keep agreements between the Crown and the Mudejar population, in addition to forced conversions, were some of the motives that led this Muslim group into revolt in various localities within the former Kingdom of Granada, between the end of 1499 and the first months of 1501. Through the study of municipal and national sources, this work analyses the role of the armed militia from various cities and towns in Andalusia in suffocating the uprising. It also studies the systems of recruitment used, the places where the militia acted, the cost of maintenance, and the ever-increasing problems that arose from the failure of certain members of society to fulfill their military commitments.

[ES] La población múdejar fue parte de la población en España a lo largo de los siglos VIII al X. Junto con la tolerancia propia de la Edad Media española, hizo que los musulmanes que vivieron en estas tierras del centro de la península fueran admitidos, aunque con un status inferior, gracias a sus habilidades profesionales y a su ausencia de ambiciones sociales. Su saber hacer -sobre todo en materia constructiva- se adaptó tan bien a este entorno geográfi co que muchos artesanos cristianos aprendieron a trabajar como ellos, hasta el punto de convertir el estilo de los mudéjares en el más español de los modos de hacer arquitectura, sea militar, suntuaria, religiosa, popular e incluso industrial.

Church–State relations in early modern Europe were often turbulent. Princes and clergy regularly clashed over ecclesiastical appointments, jurisdiction and finances. Such conflicts were common in both Protestant and Catholic principalities. Yet, for many historians, Habsburg Castile is still the Catholic Monarchy, and any conflict between Church and State there is seen as an aberration. This article argues that clerical opposition in Castile was not unusual, and it calls into question the conventional views that the Castilian Church had a monolithic structure and was subservient to the Crown. The article focuses primarily on clerical resistance to taxation and examines the methods used by the clergy to curtail royal demands, such as the cesación a divinis, appeals to the king and the pope, and preaching against the Crown.

Identities in the urban world are mental constructs of varying degrees of complexity that are built on the structure of the social groups to which they refer. But urban identity was a complex system also constructed based upon responsibilities and efforts, which served to cultivate common work. In Castile the towns and cities had a high capacity for management and organisation from their creation. The common identity was represented by the oligarchic government and the cities only brought before the king rivalries among themselves. This lack of sovereign urban identity leads to the supposition that the ambitions were absorbed in the feelings of identity with the community of the kingdom and monarchy would reserve an unquestionable leading role for the cities.

This volume examines the nature of aristocratic society in the Spanish kingdom of León and Castile in the twelfth century. Drawing on an extensive range of original sources, many of them unpublished, it highlights the unrivalled wealth, status and power enjoyed by some members of the aristocracy. It also explores the multifarious roles that lay magnates were expected to fulfil: as family protectors, landlords and judges; as courtiers, diplomats and military commanders; and, not least, as patrons of the church. The nobility of León and Castile experienced a number of important changes during this period. There are signs that a few great families began to develop an embryonic sense of lineage. The struggle for ascendancy with al-Andalus - Muslim Spain - also enabled some magnates to acquire influence far from their traditional centres of power, and the concept of crusade made itself felt in aristocratic circles. The book's Appendices include a unique biographical study of the counts of León and Castile and a selection of genealogical tables