-
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...
- professionalism, and education. In 2001, it
merged with the ConcÌlio
Nacional de
Hermandades Latinas. It
includes seventeen organizations. NALFO's
headquarters is...
- post-classical
period and the
Middle Ages,
forces such as the
Santa Hermandades, the shurta, and the Maréchaussée
provided services ranging from law...
-
stationed throughout the
provinces to keep order. In
medieval Spain,
Santas Hermandades, or 'holy brotherhoods',
peacekeeping ****ociations of
armed individuals...
-
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...
- The
rough and
ready justice of the
Santa Hermandades became famous for brutality. The
original hermandades continued to
serve as
modest local police...
-
hermandades (also "brotherhoods", but in
Castilian Spanish) of Castile,
which were
paramilitary law-enforcement militias.
Similar to the
hermandades,...
-
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...
- (NALFO)
instead of the
majority East
Coast based ConcÌlio
Nacional de
Hermandades Latinas. In the fall of 1985 at the
University at Buffalo,
sixteen young...
