Contested Treasure

Author : Thomas W. Barton
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271065762

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Contested Treasure by Thomas W. Barton Pdf

In Contested Treasure, Thomas Barton examines how the Jews in the Crown of Aragon in the twelfth through fourteenth centuries negotiated the overlapping jurisdictions and power relations of local lords and the crown. The thirteenth century was a formative period for the growth of royal bureaucracy and the development of the crown’s legal claims regarding the Jews. While many Jews were under direct royal authority, significant numbers of Jews also lived under nonroyal and seigniorial jurisdiction. Barton argues that royal authority over the Jews (as well as Muslims) was far more modest and contingent on local factors than is usually recognized. Diverse case studies reveal that the monarchy’s Jewish policy emerged slowly, faced considerable resistance, and witnessed limited application within numerous localities under nonroyal control, thus allowing for more highly differentiated local modes of Jewish administration and coexistence. Contested Treasure refines and complicates our portrait of interfaith relations and the limits of royal authority in medieval Spain, and it presents a new approach to the study of ethnoreligious relations and administrative history in medieval European society.

Author : Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin,Lyndel V. Prott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317281832

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Cultural Property and Contested Ownership by Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin,Lyndel V. Prott Pdf

Against the backdrop of international conventions and their implementation, Cultural Property and Contested Ownership explores how highly-valued cultural goods are traded and negotiated among diverging parties and their interests. Cultural artefacts, such as those kept and trafficked between art dealers, private collectors and museums, have become increasingly localized in a ‘Bermuda triangle’ of colonialism, looting and the black market, with their re-emergence resulting in disputes of ownership and claims for return. This interdisciplinary volume provides the first book-length investigation of the changing behaviours resulting from the effect of the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property. The collection considers the impact of the Convention on the way antiquity dealers, museums and auction houses, as well as nation states and local communities, address issues of provenance, contested ownership, and the trafficking of cultural property. The book contains a range of contributions from anthropologists, lawyers, historians and archaeologists. Individual cases are examined from a bottom-up perspective and assessed from the viewpoint of international law in the Epilogue. Each section is contextualised by an introductory chapter from the editors.

Author : Thomas W. Barton
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501736186

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Victory's Shadow by Thomas W. Barton Pdf

At the beginning of the eleventh century, Catalonia was a patchwork of counties, viscounties, and lordships that bordered Islamic al-Andalus to the south. Over the next two centuries, the region underwent a dramatic transformation. The counts of Barcelona secured title to the neighboring kingdom of Aragon through marriage and this newly constituted Crown of Aragon, after numerous failed attempts, finally conquered the Islamic states positioned along its southern frontier in the mid-twelfth century. Successful conquest, however, necessitated considerable organizational challenges that threatened to destabilize, politically and economically, this triumphant regime. The Aragonese monarchy's efforts to overcome these adversities, consolidate its authority, and capitalize on its military victories would impose lasting changes on its governmental framework and exert considerable influence over future expansionist projects. In Victory's Shadow, Thomas W. Barton offers a sweeping new account of the capture and long-term integration of Muslim-ruled territories by an ascendant Christian regime and a detailed analysis of the influence of this process on the governmental, economic, and broader societal development of both Catalonia and the greater Crown of Aragon. Based on over a decade of extensive archival research, Victory's Shadow deftly reconstructs and evaluates the decisions, outcomes, and costs involved in this experience of territorial integration and considers its implications for ongoing debates regarding the dynamics of expansionism across the diverse boundary zones of medieval Europe.

Author : Cecil Reid
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000374636

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Jews and Converts in Late Medieval Castile by Cecil Reid Pdf

Jews and Converts in Late Medieval Castile examines the ways in which Jewish-Christian relations evolved in Castile, taking account of social, cultural, and religious factors that affected the two communities throughout the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. The territorial expansion of the Christian kingdoms in Iberia that followed the reconquests of the mid-thirteenth century presented new military and economic challenges. At the same time the fragile balance between Muslims, Jews, and Christians in the Peninsula was also profoundly affected. Economic and financial pressures were of over-riding importance. Most significant were the large tax revenues that the Iberian Jewish community provided to royal coffers, new evidence for which is provided here. Some in the Jewish community also achieved prominence at court, achieving dizzying success that often ended in dismal failure or death. A particular feature of this study is its reliance upon both Castilian and Hebrew sources of the period to show how mutual perceptions evolved through the long fourteenth century. The study encompasses the remarkable and widespread phenomenon of Jewish conversion, elaborates on its causes, and describes the profound social changes that would culminate in the anti-converso riots of the mid-fifteenth century. This book is valuable reading for academics and students of medieval and of Jewish history. As a study of a unique crucible of social change it also has a wider relevance to multi-cultural societies of any age, including our own.

Author : Pamela A. Patton,Maria Alessia Rossi
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Art, Medieval
ISBN : 9780271095868

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Out of Bounds by Pamela A. Patton,Maria Alessia Rossi Pdf

Author : Sarah Ifft Decker
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271093772

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The Fruit of Her Hands by Sarah Ifft Decker Pdf

In the thriving urban economies of late thirteenth-century Catalonia, Jewish and Christian women labored to support their families and their communities. The Fruit of Her Hands examines how gender, socioeconomic status, and religious identity shaped how these women lived and worked. Sarah Ifft Decker draws on thousands of notarial contracts as well as legal codes, urban ordinances, and Hebrew responsa literature to explore the lived experiences of Jewish and Christian women in the cities of Barcelona, Girona, and Vic between 1250 and 1350. Relying on an expanded definition of women’s work that includes the management of household resources as well as wage labor and artisanal production, this study highlights the crucial contributions women made both to their families and to urban economies. Christian women, Ifft Decker finds, were deeply embedded in urban economic life in ways that challenge traditional dichotomies between women in northern and Mediterranean Europe. And while Jewish women typically played a less active role than their Christian counterparts, Ifft Decker shows how, in moments of communal change and crisis, they could and did assume prominent roles in urban economies. Through its attention to the distinct experiences of Jewish and Christian women, The Fruit of Her Hands advances our understanding of Jewish acculturation in the Iberian Peninsula and the shared experiences of women of different faiths. It will be welcomed by specialists in gender studies and religious studies as well as students and scholars of medieval Iberia.

Author : Michael Schraer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004392380

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A Stake in the Ground: Jews and Property Investment in the Medieval Crown of Aragon by Michael Schraer Pdf

In A Stake in the Ground, Michael Schraer challenges the traditional view of medieval Jews as money-lenders and merchants, finding property trading and investment to be an essential part of their economic activities in the crown of Aragon.

Author : John George Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Zoology
ISBN : UOM:39015074748768

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Animate Creation by John George Wood Pdf

Author : John George Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:591068561

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The illustrated natural history by John George Wood Pdf

Author : John George Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Zoology
ISBN : PRNC:32101074869916

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The Illustrated Natural History: Birds by John George Wood Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004365773

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From Al-Andalus to the Americas (13th-17th Centuries) by Anonim Pdf

From Al-Andalus to the Americas (13th-17th Centuries). Destruction and Construcion of Societies offers a multi-perspective view of the filiation of colonial and settler colonial experiences, from the Medieval Iberian Peninsula to the early modern Americas.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017456700

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The Lost Ship. By the Author of “Cavendish” [W. J. Neale]. ... A New Edition by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Johnstoun N. Neale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600052839

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The lost ship; or, The Atlantic steamer by William Johnstoun N. Neale Pdf

Author : Charles Wilkins Webber,Mrs. Charles Wilkins Webber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Birds
ISBN : HARVARD:HX7BNU

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Wild Scenes and Song Birds by Charles Wilkins Webber,Mrs. Charles Wilkins Webber Pdf

Author : E. Michael Gerli,Ryan D. Giles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351809788

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The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Medieval Iberia by E. Michael Gerli,Ryan D. Giles Pdf

The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Medieval Iberia: Unity in Diversity draws together the innovative work of renowned scholars as well as several thought-provoking essays from emergent academics, in order to provide broad-range, in-depth coverage of the major aspects of the Iberian medieval world. Exploring the social, political, cultural, religious, and economic history of the Iberian Peninsula, the volume includes 37 original essays grouped around fundamental themes such as Languages and Literatures, Spiritualities, and Visual Culture. This interdisciplinary volume is an excellent introduction and reference work for students and scholars in Iberian Studies and Medieval Studies. SERIES EDITOR: BRAD EPPS SPANISH LIST ADVISOR: JAVIER MUÑOZ-BASOLS