-
police force called the Shurta. The
hermandades worked as
local militias to
protect the
towns they came from.
Hermandades also
curbed the
actions of bandits...
-
stationed throughout the
provinces to keep order. In
medieval Spain,
Santas Hermandades, or 'holy brotherhoods',
peacekeeping ****ociations of
armed individuals...
- The
rough and
ready justice of the
Santa Hermandades became famous for brutality. The
original hermandades continued to
serve as
modest local police...
-
warring in
Biscay had been
reduced by the
intervention of the
royalist hermandades,
capable of
drawing on the
revenues of
royal estates. In 1415 the corregidor...
- post-classical
period and the
Middle Ages,
forces such as the
Santa Hermandades, the shurta, and the Maréchaussée
provided services ranging from law...
- two
different umbrella organizations evolved, the ConcÌlio
Nacional de
Hermandades Latinas (founded by Phi Iota
Alpha and
Omega Phi Beta),
which primarily...
- and Hispanoamerica.
Various groups of
people -
usually linked to the
Hermandades, the
religious Brotherhoods who
organise the
Easter W**** processions...
-
Flanders to gain
experience in
overseas trade. A few
families within the
hermandades or
confraternities like the Sarracín and
Bonifaz succeeded in monopolising...
-
strong for the
Catholic community. The
processions are
organised by
hermandades and cofradías,
religious brotherhoods.
During the processions, members...
-
design of
architect Leonardo de Figueroa. It is the seat of
various hermandades (confraternities
which parti****te in the
religious processions for which...
