TERRITORIAL ARTICULATION OF REALENGO SPACES IN THE NORTHERN CANTABRIAN AREA OF THE KINGDOM OF CASTILLA IN MODERNITY

Abstract

The process of territorial articulation in the historical territories of Cantabria towards the XV-XVI centuries, is the center of analysis of the present work. For it we take into consideration the different dynamics of organization and twinning that, since the Middle Ages, operate for the organization of the various local spaces -barrios and councils- in the different intermediate instances that allow structuring the so-called corregimientos. From a case study: so-called Corregimiento de las Cuatro Villas of the Costa de la Mar, we can establish the complex process of territorial and political organization that defines these multiple and complex jurisdictional spaces.