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Peace Mediations: Recourse to the Arbitration in the kingdom of Valencia (XIV-XV Centuries)

Ferran Garcia-oliver

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060201 languages & linguisticsHistoryviolenciabiologyRural communitypazSocial Sciences06 humanities and the artsConciliationcomunidades campesinasbiology.organism_classificationjusticiaArbitration; peace; violence; justice; rural elites; rural communitiesHKingdomArbitraje; paz; violencia; justicia; élites rurales; comunidades campesinasarbitrajePolitical science0602 languages and literatureArbitrationMiddle Agesélites ruralesValenciaHumanities

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Arbitration, as a means of conciliation, had an extraordinary diffusion in the Medieval West. It had the advantage of being more quick and, generally, less expensive that the causes resolved by the ordinary courts. Moreover, it tried to reconcile the interests of the warring parties. This paper seeks to define the main features of the arbitration in the kingdom of Valencia during the Middle Ages focusing the observation on the small rural community of Vilafranca.

https://doi.org/10.3989/hispania.2017.002