El factor religioso en el conflicto de las Comunidades de Castilla (1520-1521). El papel del clero

Abstract

The conflict of the «Comunidades» of Castile is analyzed in the context of the social movements, with a religious component, that took place in Europe at the end of the fifteenth century and during the first decades of the sixteenth century. It is tried to determine the role played in that conflict by the religious factor, paying attention to several questions, namely: the political role of the religious confraternities, the spread of millenaristic prophecies, or the use of preaching as an instrument of political propaganda. And, next, attention is paid to the participation in the conflict of the clerics. It is valued the role that they played in the rebel institutions, and the social profile of the clerics that joined the rebels is finally analyzed.