La representación ciudadana en las asambleas estamentales castellanas: Cortes y Santa Junta Comunera. Análisis comparativo del perfil sociopolítico de los procuradores

Abstract

The main organ of government of the «Comunero» rebels, the «Santa Junta», came to life as an extraordinary assembly of the towns that had the right to send deputies to the Cortes (Parliament), that was summoned by someof these towns, without the consent of the king. This institution has been described as revolutionary. But in this paper the author tries to prove that in many respects it followed the model of the Castilian Cortes of the fifteenth century and of the first decades of the sixteenth century. He pays attention to the study of the social prolife of the deputies sent by the towns to the «Santa Junta», and he proves that most of them belonged to the same sociopolitical group that the deputies to the Cortes. At the same time he shows that an important number of towns that sent deputies to this assembly didn't advocate constitutional changes of any kind, and since the beginning they made efforts to prevent actions that implied disobedience to the king, and finally ended up by ordering their deputies to leave the assembly.