La Diplomática señorial en la Corona de Castilla

Abstract

In the framework of the Crown of Aragon, the study of the seigniorial documents, from the point of view of an historian who studies the document, has been the subject, during the last few years, of significative -but insuffi­cient- works to give a complete answer to all the questions that this very documentation arouses. The present work wants to offer an approach of the most recent biblio­graphy and a methodological account that would allow us to study Castilian seigniorial documents from the modern point of view of Diplomacy. Such an attitude is only possible if the «functionalism» of the document is taken into account, in the historical context in which it takes place and in which it is used as an instrument of power. Through the study of the documentary form, of the people who realised it, of the bureaucratic and cultural means used for its writing, it is possible to follow the path of the trends of mediation of the documents. These trends were established between the different institutions and persons who belonged to the complex world of the seigniorial regime.