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- Title
El control silenciado: el papel de la población en los juicios de residencia.
- Authors
MARTÍN ROMERA, MARÍA ÁNGELES
- Abstract
The juicio de residencia, similar to the sindacato procedure, attributed a proactive and crucial role to the population in the process of holding officers accountable. However, this popular control has been twice silenced: firstly in the very sources produced by the Crown and secondly by the predominant historiographic interpretations of the residencias as either ineffective, or subjected entirely to the purposes of the royal apparatus. The present article claims both the existence of a certain control of the population over the accountability procedures and its ability to shape these mechanisms in practice and even in the legislation. It addresses the perspective of the urban population on the functionality of the residencias, as well as the modifications introduced in the procedure that strengthened the position of the people as accusers, witnesses and even the symbolical judges, since the end of the 15th to the 17th century in the Hispanic Monarchy.
- Subjects
SPANISH monarchy; SPANISH studies
- Publication
Memoria y Civilizacion, 2019, Vol 22, p191
- ISSN
1139-0107
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15581/001.22.015