Castilian Urban Elites, Violence and Inequality at the end of the 15th Century

Abstract

Knowledge of specific cases of gender violence and the suffering that they entailed for those involved in them, brings us closer to the history of inequality, hierarchy and violence that became widespread in the last decades of the fifteenth century. The context of confrontations for urban power, verifiable through judicial sources, adds new data on gender violence within the Segovian family of de la Hoz; a situation that can be extrapolated to other Castilian family groups from that decade.