"By My Absolute Royal Authority"

Download or read book "By My Absolute Royal Authority" written by John B. Owens and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2005 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book maps part of this unfamiliar terrain through a microhistory of an extended, high-profile lawsuit that was carefully watched by generations of Castilian leaders. Justices from the late fifteenth century to the reign of Philip II had difficulty resolving the conflict because the proper exercise of "absolute royal authority" was itself the central legal issue and the dispute pitted against each other members of important groups who demonstrated a tendency to give prominence to different interpretive schemes as they tried to comprehend their world.