ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapter of this book. The book often means the wholesale persecution or exile of those deemed unfit to participate in this centralising project. It meant the marginalisation of certain people within society. The book shows how social differences were articulated and enforced. The mechanisms for subverting difference were often the very ones that served to create difference: education, wealth and lineage. The book explains dialectic between nominally rigid social norms and the complex ambiguities of everyday life. Clearly, the period between the end of the middle ages and the onset of modernity – an age fraught with political, economic, cultural and social transformations – witnessed deep alterations in the fabric and structure of Spanish society. It describes magical elements entered the literature of the elite and were transmitted, through the theatre and symbols of public spectacles, to the population as a whole.
