To love the King as “Natural Lord”, an obligation by nature in the Siete Partidas of Alfonso X

  • Paola Miceli
Keywords: Alfonso X, Iurisdictio, Land, Natural obligations, Partidas, Señor natural

Abstract

The aim of the article is to analyze the double movement around the legal construct “Señor Natural” that takes place in Las Siete Partidas by Alfonso X, a key concept in the wise King’s political program. On the one hand, the concept of “Señor natural” is reworked and becomes legal, placing the king above any other order; on the other, the obligation regarding the “Señor natural” is established as the best of all “natural obligations”. All this conflates into a new concept of “Señor natural” (already removed from monarch’s personal quality or lineage) based on men and the land, which becomes a natural obligation in Partidas, a monarch’s reinforcement to exercise dominium in the totality of the kingdom.

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Published
2020-06-01
How to Cite
Miceli, P. (2020). To love the King as “Natural Lord”, an obligation by nature in the Siete Partidas of Alfonso X. Cuadernos De filosofía, (74), 29-39. https://doi.org/10.34096/cf.n74.10854
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