Castillos señoriales nobiliarios y episcopales en Castilla–La Mancha (siglos XIV y XV)

Abstract

This study begins with a state of the bibliographic matter, a review of the importance of the stately networks had at the time of Spanish refeudalization -paradójico process that was antithetical or undersides of the gradual assertion of authoritarian monarchs, and an attempt to define the type of castle palace, in its residential and defensive aspects. No disparagement of other attractive moments like the Islamic and Christian strongholds of the Middle Ages, or the fundamental structures of the military orders erected between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, we must recognize that most amazing castles they never tilled those that as Belmonte, Guadamur or Garcimuñoz, among others, correspond exactly with the most characteristic type of late medieval baronial castle, where the representative antíaspects of architecture as a symbol of power and as a prototype of knightly reveries, almost unnecessary from the point militarily, they intoned in his decorativismo the swansong of a society, the medieval, which came to an end.