The Knight with No Horse: Defining Nobility in Late Medieval and Early Modern Castile

This article examines the legal relationship of horses to the status of the knight, or caballero, in late medieval and early modern Castile. Despite the upward mobility that horses offered knights serving in the Reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula, ultimately it was the reverse privilege of being ex...

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Main Author: Renton, Kathryn (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc. [2020]
In: The sixteenth century journal
Year: 2020, Volume: 51, Issue: 1, Pages: 109-127
RelBib Classification:KBH Iberian Peninsula
TJ Modern history
ZB Sociology
ZC Politics in general
Further subjects:B Upward mobility (Social sciences)
B Social classes
B Nobility (Social class)
B Horses
B Castile (Spain)
B Horse owners
B Knights & knighthood
B History
B Status attainment

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