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Dissertation Information for Claudia Mineo

NAME:
- Claudia Mineo

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- History

SCHOOL:
- University of California, Los Angeles (USA) (2006)

ADVISORS:
- Teofilo F. Ruiz

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Lynn A. Hunt
- Anthony Pagden
- John Dagenais

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: Law, litigation, and power: The struggle over municipal privileges in sixteenth-century Castile

Abstract: This dissertation reconstructs the complex and intricate world of politics in sixteenth-century Castile, the center of a world empire at the time. More specifically, it focuses on the tug-of-war between King Philip II's government, royal agents, and local leaders in Castilian municipalities over certain privileges (i.e., tax exemptions and political liberties) that the townspeople claimed to hold. Analyzing this historical problem reveals how different political players conceptualized, articulated, asserted, negotiated, and resisted power. That is, it provides a case study for understanding the fundamental nature and workings of power from a variety of methodological perspectives: cultural/anthropological, intellectual/ideological, institutional, and social history. Such analysis of the struggle over municipal privileges sheds new light on law, litigation, and power in sixteenth-century Castile. For it indicates how the ambiguity that fraught law and litigation opened a crucial opening for the negotiation and contestation of power between different political players; how these various actors chose to interact within this context, because they all had implicitly agreed upon and stood to win from this "game"; and, finally, how the nature and workings of power was, in the last analysis, defined by tremendous flux and fluidity.

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