Nuevas aportaciones al estudio de las cofradías y hermandades en la Castilla bajomedieval: el ejemplo de Jerez de la Frontera

The study of brotherhoods and confraternities in the South of Castile is very broad in the centuries after Middle Ages. But in the Middle Ages, when brotherhoods and confraternities appeared, there are lot of difficulties due to scarcity of documentation. In previous works we have already studied the example of Seville. Now we study the case of Jerez de la Frontera, the second town in the Kingdom of Seville, because in this city we can find an older documentation and a previous development, which allows us to shed light on the dark origins of these institutions