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Los bienes prestados: Estrategias feudales de consolidación señorial

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  • Cristina Jular Pérez-Alfaro

    (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC))

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This paper considers a series of proceedings referred to as prestimonia in Spanish medieval texts. Prestimonia is a specific modality of property assignment, mainly land, where one lord lends it to another lord for life and its usufruct is accepted as payment. While being a traditional subject for medieval historiography, I put forward a new approach that places prestimonia in the wider-ranging field of "borrowing" and thus seek to perceive alliances, ruptures, and processes to strengthen the nobility. I differentiate between noble prestimonia, ecclesiastic prestimonia and royal prestimonia in order to understand the relationships between lords, the internal networks in a manor and the ties underpinning the medieval powers pyramid; where prestimonia is a fundamental tool to understand feudal power.

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  • Cristina Jular Pérez-Alfaro, 1999. "Los bienes prestados: Estrategias feudales de consolidación señorial," Historia Agraria. Revista de Agricultura e Historia Rural, Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria, issue 17, pages 73-98.
  • Handle: RePEc:seh:journl:y:1999:i:17:p:73-98
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