LEADER 05325nam 22006012 450 001 9911008437103321 005 20151002020706.0 010 $a1-282-08057-1 010 $a9786612080579 010 $a1-58046-680-X 035 $a(CKB)1000000000722677 035 $a(EBL)3003598 035 $a(OCoLC)923577250 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000116517 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11139281 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000116517 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10035841 035 $a(PQKB)10082239 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781580466806 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3003598 035 $a(OCoLC)317321893 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_89798 035 $a(DE-B1597)675430 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781580466806 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000722677 100 $a20120511d2005|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$a"By my absolute royal authority" $ejustice and the Castilian commonwealth at the beginning of the first global age /$fJ.B. Owens 210 1$aSuffolk :$cBoydell & Brewer,$d2005. 215 $a1 online resource (xvii, 371 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aChanging perspectives on early modern Europe,$x1542-3905 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). 311 08$a1-58046-201-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 299-349) and index. 327 $aRethinking the Hispanic monarchy in the first global age -- John II's controversial reward -- The Catholic monarchs and the legacy of John II -- Rebellion against crown administration as a defense of absolute royal authority -- Pursuing justice : due process, procedure, and the adjudication of a major lawsuit in the absence of coercive muscle -- Making judgments : Letrado theories and interpretive schemes -- Philip II, the great fear, and the new authoritarianism -- The paradox of absolute royal authority. 330 $aA study of the kingdom of Castile's judicial administration that brings together political ideas and political action by giving serious attention to how well royal justices were able to handle difficult, prominent lawsuits that raised politically troubling questions and involved major litigants. 'By My Absolute Royal Authority': Justice and the Castilian Commonwealth at the Beginning of the First Global Age' is a study of judicial administration. From the fifteenth century to the seventeenth, the kingdom of Castile experienced a remarkable proliferation of judicial institutions, which historians have generally seen as part of a metanarrative of 'state-building.' Yet, Castile's frontiers were extremely porous, and a crown government that could not control the kingdom's borders exhibited neither the ability to obtain information and shape affairs, nor the centrality of court politics that many historians claim in an effort to craft a tidy narrative of this period. Castilians retained their loyalty to the monarchy not because of the 'power' of the institutions of a developing 'state,' but because they shared an identity as citizens of a commonwealth in which a high value was given to justice as an ultimate purpose of the political community and a conviction that the sovereign possessed 'absolute royal authority' to see that justice was done. This expectation served as a foundation for the political identity and loyalty that held together for several centuries the disparate and globally-dispersed domains of the Hispanic Monarchy, but perceptions of how well crown judicial institutions worked were a fundamental determinant of the degree of support a monarch could attract to meet fiscal and military goals. 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. The account brings together political ideas and political action by giving serious attention to how well royal justices were able to handle difficult, prominent lawsuits that raised politically troubling questions and involved major litigants. J. B. Owens is professor of the history and director of the Glenn E. Tyler Collection at Idaho State University, where he specializes in Spanish history and the use of Geographic Information Systems for research and teaching 410 0$aChanging perspectives on early modern Europe. 606 $aJustice, Administration of$zSpain$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aPrerogative, Royal$zSpain$xHistory$y16th century 615 0$aJustice, Administration of$xHistory 615 0$aPrerogative, Royal$xHistory 676 $a347.46/009/031 700 $aOwens$b J. B$g(John B.),$f1944-$01828053 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911008437103321 996 $a"By my absolute royal authority"$94396139 997 $aUNINA