부산대학교 도서관

The present study aims to analyze the process of political conformation of a local community during the Middle Ages. As historiography has shown, the factors that intervene in the consolidation of a dynamics of collective action can be diverse: conflicts with lords, mutual defense capacity, judicial function of the councils, the constitution of a tax system on the basis of public debt, etc. Taking these factors into account, the research will focus on the interaction of the three most relevant levels that, in our opinion, framed this dynamic: the creation and development of a public notary office from 1236; the establishment of a municipal regime; and the consolidation of a municipal tax habit resulting from a rising royal pressure. The chosen chronological window, 1180-1322, includes from the first reference to prohoms who participate in the resolution of conflicts in a stable court chaired by the castlà and the royal bailiff until the request for subsidy for the conquest of Sardinia. In these one hundred and forty years, we will see the emergence of a new political subject, the universitas villa et termini Terracie, which will allow the inhabitants of Terrassa to institutionally articulate the dialectic generated due to the confrontation between lordly pressures and the, not always homogeneous, interests of the community.