Abstract
The aim of this work, based mainly on manuscripts and unpublished documents from Burgos Cathedral Archive, is the study and analysis of violence, physical and verbal, among the cathedral clergy of Burgos, emphasizing the individual and collective scale of the conflicts and the variety of their causes. The cathedral chapter of Burgos exercised its jurisdiction by punishing the culprits, favouring reconciliation processes and trying to stop, often unsuccessfully, the conflicts between clergymen that increased during the last decades of the fifteenth century, and that have a close connection with the conflicts which took place between different families and lineages of the urban oligarchy of Burgos during the same period.
Highlights
The aim of this work, based mainly on manuscripts and unpublished documents from Burgos Cathedral Archive, is the study and analysis of violence, physical and verbal, among the cathedral clergy of Burgos, emphasizing the individual and collective scale of the conflicts and the variety of their causes
The cathedral chapter of Burgos exercised its jurisdiction by punishing the culprits
the conflicts between clergymen that increased during the last decades of the fifteenth century
Summary
La consideración de la Edad Media como una de las épocas históricas violentas por excelencia constituye, sin duda, uno de los tópicos historiográficos más fuertemente arraigados, todavía hoy en día, en el imaginario colectivo de las sociedades occidentales. Para el ámbito hispánico medieval la violencia de y contra el clero también ha sido objeto, aunque no suficientemente, de una cierta atención, más a través de análisis parciales que mediante investigaciones globales sobre el tema[5]. Los testimonios de violencia en el clero burgalés nos remiten por un lado al clero catedralicio, y fundamentalmente a los miembros del cabildo de canónigos, tratándose de enfrentamientos entre clérigos que, aunque en ocasiones tuvieron una dimensión individual, muchas otras veces implicaron a un buen número de eclesiásticos que, agrupados en facciones, se enfrentaban violentamente por causas diversas, por lo que es necesario relacionar dichos enfrentamientos con los conflictos entre bandos y parcialidades y las múltiples manifestaciones de violencia que a lo largo del siglo XV se produjeron en numerosas ciudades del ámbito hispánico, y por supuesto en la propia ciudad de Burgos[8]. A continuación, por tanto, me centraré en el análisis de los principales testimonios de violencia dentro del clero y cabildo catedralicios
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