Studia Historica. Historia Medieval (Jan 2018)

Peasant Elites around the City of Valencia: The Castrellenes Family

  • Ferran GARCIA-OLIVER GARCÍA

DOI
https://doi.org/10.14201/shhme2017352119144
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 35, no. 2
pp. 119 – 144

Abstract

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This paper seeks to analyse economy of a well-to-do peasant family settled in the urban fringes of the city of Valencia, capital of the kingdom, in the first half of fifteenth Century. The death of the head of the family, due to the plague, made emerge the solidarity of the relatives, who took care of the orphans. Thanks to the memorial of rents we can assess the economic strategies of a wealthier peasant family, the importance of markets and the city and countryside relations.

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