HISTÒRIA DE LES DISSENSIONS CIVILS A LA MALLORCA BAIXMEDIEVAL (1350-1550) HISTORY OF THE CIVIL STRIFES IN LATE MEDIEVAL MAJORCA (1350-1550) (Libro en papel)

de MORRO VENY, GUILLEM

Sinopsis

This works covers two centuries of the history of the Kingdom ofMajorca (1350-1550), marked by the most outstanding social conflictsever to take place on the island during the late Middle Ages. Theauthor analyses facts of great incidence on the life of the Majorcansduring the Middle Ages, such as the disproportionate debt run by theUniversitat of the Kingdom, the relationship between those in powerand their subjects, the financial crises and the causes behind popular discontent that sometimes led to armed struggle such as the 1391Revolt, the 1450 Forà Uprising or the 1521 Germania Revolt. Someconflicts which, all in all, bring to light an awareness of the rights of the governed, unveil the avant-gardist line of thinking of theleading sectors of the population, and show what concept was heldabout the rules that should apply to the conviviality betweengovernors and the governed which, all feudal reminiscence apart,reveal a characterisation of the Majorcan temperament resting onsocial ideas still prevailing to-day.