FRATERNAL RELATIONSHIPS IN THE TERRITORIAL LEGISLATION OF LATE MEDIEVAL CASTILE: FROM PROTECTION TO CONFLICT

Studies on the family in medieval Castile have not paid enough attention to relationships between family members. On the few occasions they have done so, the analysis has tended to focus on a vertical approach; consequently, little effort has been made to comprehend the ties between brothers and sisters in the Castilian Middle Ages. This paper aims to provide a closer look at this topic by means of an examination of Castilian royal legislation, trying to define the social content of brotherhood, as well as to reveal those fraternal liaisons concerning protection or conflict found in normative texts.