Women and not citizenship. Women's relation to public places in the late Middle Age in Castille

Abstract

This report places the idea of vicinity as an antecedent of the modern concept of citizenship.
Starting from this premise the authors carry out a review of the code of laws normative in search
of the socio-political statute which the patriarchal order defined for women in the medieval
cities during the transitional period between the feudal society and the middle class. To evaluate
in this way the sociopolitical contents of the idea of vicinity applying it to women in the fiscal,
military and judicial aspects. One can arrive at the conclusion that only exceptional circumstances
open doors for feminine access to public places and to obtain power. The rule is to keep women
away from public places. In the second section we tackle the problematic of the discursive traps
that enclose the traditional history in those cases where we see women's active participation in
military defense firms in the city. Also the silence and distortion of her participation in the
disturbances and social revults.