Los malos tratos a las mujeres en Castilla en el siglo XVII

Abstract

This article, based principaly in judicial documentation, analyses, from a perspective eminently empiric, the social drama of antifemenine violence in Castilla kingdom in XVII century, with special attention at their heaviest expresions: the sexual violence and the «honour vengances». It is connected the problem with the altitudes of the judicial authorities and the christians writers. At last, it is studied the function that the inferiority of the women had in the preservation of the social arder.