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HERMANDAD (from hermano, Lat. germanus, a brother)

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 365 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HEG-HIG
HERMANDAD (from hermano, Lat. germanus, a brother) , a Castilian word meaning, strictly speaking, a brotherhood. In the Romance language spoken on the
east
 
coast
  of Spain in Catalonia it is written germandat or germania. In the form germania it has acquired the significance of " thieves' Latin " or " thieves' cant," and is applied to any
jargon
  supposed to be understood only by the initiated. But the typical "germania" is a mixture of
slang
  and of the gipsy language. The hermandades have played a conspicuous part in the history of Spain. The first recorded case of the formation of an hermandad occurred in the 12th century when the towns and the peasantry of the north united to police the
pilgrim
  road to Santiago in
Galicia
 , and protect the pilgrims against robber knights. Throughout the middle ages such alliances were frequently formed by combinations of towns to protect the roads connecting them, and were occasionally extended to political purposes. They acted to some extent like the Fehmic courts of Germany. The Catholic sovereigns, Ferdinand and Isabella, adapted an existing hermandad to the purpose of a general police acting under officials appointed by themselves, and endowed with large powers of summary
jurisdiction
  even in
capital
  cases. The hermandad became, in fact, a constabulary, which, however, fell gradually into neglect. In Catalonia and Valencia the " germanias " were combinations of the peasantry to resist the exactions of the feudal lords.


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