Gobernar una villa en la frontera de GranadaMorón de la frontera (1469-1531)

Abstract

The doctoral thesis "Governing a lordship in theGranada´sBorder: Moron de la Frontera (1469-1531)" aims to study the identity and operation of the power structures and the local elite that marked the government of Moron de la Frontera on times of the first counts of Ureña; a fundamental stage in theevolution of this Sevillian village where happend a profound transformation of their political, economic and social structures, derived from a hectic process of streng the ning the feudal powerled by Juan Tellez Girón, II Count of Ureña. Along with the on going search for local identity, the analysis of the institutions of power and the men who have directed them, his work analises the consequences on the medieval moronense society of events of the first magnitude, like the final phase of the conquest of Granada, the common ermovement -with the third count of Ureña like one of the leaders- or in ternecine struggles waged with in the Andalusian Nobility. Events in which have a special role the House of Osuna and caused difficulties situations in the villa, as the gradual loss of autonomy of municipal power, constantstately abuses, thepolarization of the moronense elite or the constant jurisdictional clashes with his rural aldeas. All these contents are frame dinto five major chapters that follow to a historiographical review and introductory documentary: 1) Moron de la Frontera in the late Middle Ages. 2) The Municipal Power: The Council of Moron de la Frontera. 3) The stately Power: the House of Osuna and Moron de la Frontera. 4) The moronense elite. 5) times noise and sides. Close this study the"Conclusions" of research, where a critical assessment of the degree of achievement of the original objectives and the contribution of this work to fundamental knowledge about the town of Moron de la Frontera is made in its transition from Middle Ages to modernity. The study also has a second volume, as a document ary appendix, where it realizes the most significant Moron documents for this period, the graphs that complement the developed content and prosopography major local personalities.