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Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004349612
The Crown of Aragon. A Singular Mediterranean Empire recovers the history of an important late medieval crossroads, that brought peoples from Iberia to Greece together and promoted culture as a means of cohesion.
Author : Damian J. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351927437
Drawing on an extensive study of the primary sources, Damian Smith explores the relationship between the Roman Curia and Aragon-Catalonia in the late 12th and early 13th centuries. His focus is the pontificate of Innocent III, the most politically influential medieval Pope, and the reign of King Peter II of Aragon and the first years of King James I. By analysing the practical example of papal actions towards one of its closest secular allies, the work deepens our understanding of the objectives and limits of the Papacy, while making clear the Pope's profound influence on the realm's political development. Marriage affairs and politics, the Spanish Reconquista, with the campaign of Las Navas, and the Albigensian Crusade, in which King Peter met his death at the battle of Muret, are all covered. The final chapters turn more specifically to Church affairs, looking at the relations between the papacy and the bishops of the province of Tarragona, and at the success of Innocent III's mission to reform religious life.
Author : Thomas W. Barton
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271065762
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 : Benjamin R. Gampel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107164512
Gampel investigates the anti-Jewish riots in 1391-2 in the lands of Castile and Aragon.
Author : Thomas N. Bisson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015013530285
This work surveys the history of a great Mediterranean federation whose homelands were Catalonia and Aragon. It incorporates the results of recent research into the archives of Catalonia, Aragon Valencia, Majorca, and other Mediterranean lands.
Author : Donald J. Kagay
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0754659046
The focus of this collection of articles by Donald J. Kagay is the effect of the expansion of royal government on the societies of the medieval Crown of Aragon. He traces how, in the long conflicts against Spanish Islam and neighbouring Christian states during the 13th and 14th centuries, the relationships of royal to customary law, of monarchical to aristocratic power, and of Christian to Jewish and Muslim populations, all became issues that marked the transition of the medieval Crown of Aragon to the early modern states of Catalonia, Aragon and Valencia.
Author : Adam Franklin-Lyons
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271092102
In the late fourteenth century, the medieval Crown of Aragon experienced a series of food crises that created conflict and led to widespread starvation. Adam Franklin-Lyons applies contemporary understandings of complex human disasters, vulnerability, and resilience to explain how these famines occurred and to describe more accurately who suffered and why. Shortage and Famine in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon details the social causes and responses to three events of varying magnitude that struck the western Mediterranean: the minor food shortage of 1372, the serious but short-lived crisis of 1384–85, and the major famine of 1374–76, the worst famine of the century in the region. Shifts in military action, international competition, and violent attempts to control trade routes created systemic panic and widespread starvation—which in turn influenced decades of economic policy, social practices, and even the course of geopolitical conflicts, such as the War of the Two Pedros and the papal schism in Italy. Providing new insights into the intersecting factors that led to famine in the fourteenth-century Mediterranean, this deeply researched, convincingly argued book presents tools and models that are broadly applicable to any historical study of vulnerabilities in the human food supply. It will be of interest to scholars of medieval Iberia and the medieval Mediterranean as well as to historians of food and of economics.
Author : Hussein Fancy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226329642
Over the course of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the Christian kings of Aragon recruited thousands of foreign Muslim soldiers to serve in their armies and as members of their royal courts. Based on extensive research in Arabic, Latin and Romance sources, 'The Mercenary Mediterranean' explores this little-known and misunderstood history.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 683 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004363847
This book analyzes the genesis and evolution of the late Gothic painting in the Crown of Aragon and the Hispanic kingdoms, examining this phenomenon in relation to the whole context of Europe in the second half of the fifteenth century.
Author : Theresa Earenfight
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812201833
Queen María of Castile, wife of Alfonso V, "the Magnanimous," king of the Crown of Aragon, governed Catalunya in the mid-fifteenth century while her husband conquered and governed the kingdom of Naples. For twenty-six years, she maintained a royal court and council separate from and roughly equivalent to those of Alfonso in Naples. Such legitimately sanctioned political authority is remarkable given that she ruled not as queen in her own right but rather as Lieutenant-General of Catalunya with powers equivalent to the king's. María does not fit conventional images of a queen as wife and mother; indeed, she had no children and so never served as queen-regent for any royal heirs in their minorities or exercised a queen-mother's privilege to act as diplomat when arranging the marriages of her children and grandchildren. But she was clearly more than just a wife offering advice: she embodied the king's personal authority and was second only to the king himself. She was his alter ego, the other royal body fully empowered to govern. For a medieval queen, this official form of corulership, combining exalted royal status with official political appointment, was rare and striking. The King's Other Body is both a biography of María and an analysis of her political partnership with Alfonso. María's long, busy tenure as lieutenant prompts a reconsideration of long-held notions of power, statecraft, personalities, and institutions. It is also a study of the institution of monarchy and a theoretical reconsideration of the operations of gender within it. If the practice of monarchy is conventionally understood as strictly a man's job, María's reign presents a compelling argument for a more complex model, one attentive to the dynamic relationship of queenship and kingship and the circumstances and theories that shaped the institution she inhabited.
Author : Jarbel Rodriguez
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813214757
Captives and Their Saviors in the Medieval Crown of Aragon argues that by this time the ransoming efforts were on a kingdom-wide scale engaging not only professional ransomers, merchants, and officials of the crown but the population at large.
Author : Damian J. Smith
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004182899
Damian J. Smith here provides the first full account of the combined influence of crusade, heresy and inquisition in and about the lands of the Crown of Aragon until the death of James I of Conqueror in 1276.
Author : Michael Schraer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004392380
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 : Michael A. Ryan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801463167
Astrology in the Middle Ages was considered a branch of the magical arts, one informed by Jewish and Muslim scientific knowledge in Muslim Spain. As such it was deeply troubling to some Church authorities. Using the stars and planets to divine the future ran counter to the orthodox Christian notion that human beings have free will, and some clerical authorities argued that it almost certainly entailed the summoning of spiritual forces considered diabolical. We know that occult beliefs and practices became widespread in the later Middle Ages, but there is much about the phenomenon that we do not understand. For instance, how deeply did occult beliefs penetrate courtly culture and what exactly did those in positions of power hope to gain by interacting with the occult? In A Kingdom of Stargazers, Michael A. Ryan examines the interest in astrology in the Iberian kingdom of Aragon, where ideas about magic and the occult were deeply intertwined with notions of power, authority, and providence. Ryan focuses on the reigns of Pere III (1336–1387) and his sons Joan I (1387–1395) and Martí I (1395–1410). Pere and Joan spent lavish amounts of money on astrological writings, and astrologers held great sway within their courts. When Martí I took the throne, however, he was determined to purge Joan's courtiers and return to religious orthodoxy. As Ryan shows, the appeal of astrology to those in power was clear: predicting the future through divination was a valuable tool for addressing the extraordinary problems—political, religious, demographic—plaguing Europe in the fourteenth century. Meanwhile, the kings' contemporaries within the noble, ecclesiastical, and mercantile elite had their own reasons for wanting to know what the future held, but their engagement with the occult was directly related to the amount of power and authority the monarch exhibited and applied. A Kingdom of Stargazers joins a growing body of scholarship that explores the mixing of religious and magical ideas in the late Middle Ages.
Author : Michael Rogers McVaugh,Michael R. McVaugh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002-07-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521524547
An account of the medical world in eastern Spain in the decades before the Black Death.