The Emergence Of León Castile C 1065 1500

Author : James J. Todesca
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317034360

Get Book

The Emergence of León-Castile c.1065-1500 by James J. Todesca Pdf

To many medieval Europeans north of the Pyrenees, the Iberian Kingdom of León-Castile was remote and unfamiliar. In many ways such perceptions linger today, and the fact that León-Castile is mentioned at all in current textbooks is the result of efforts begun by scholars some forty years ago. Joseph F. O'Callaghan was part of a small group of English-speaking medievalists who banded together at conferences in the early 1970s to share their knowledge of Spain. O'Callaghan's general A History of Medieval Spain (1975) introduced a generation of English-speaking medievalists to Iberia. Still much of the new scholarly interest over the past decades has been directed toward the Kingdom of Aragon-Catalonia with its exceptionally well-preserved archives. The Emergence of León-Castile brings together the current research of O'Callaghan's colleagues, students and friends. The essays focus on the politics, law and economy of León-Castile from its first great leap forward in the eleventh century to the civil strife of the fifteenth. No other volume in English allows the reader to trace the institutional development of the kingdom with this chronological breadth. At the same time the volume integrates the Leonese experience into the wider discussions of lordship and power. While León-Castile's culture was certainly its own, the kingdom shared in and influenced the institutional and economic development of its fellow Christian kingdoms both in Spain and north of the Pyrenees. The kings of León and Castile were among the first European rulers to invite townsmen to their assemblies. At the same time, they attempted to regulate their economy through sumptuary legislation and wage and price freezes. And, their centuries-long colonization southwards influenced the Germanic expansion across the Elbe, the English drive into Wales and Ireland and the Latin settlement in the Crusader states. In conclusion this collection underlines the fact that León-Castile was not an isolated backwater but a sophisticated state that had an important influence on the development of medieval and renaissance Europe.

Author : Miguel Gómez,Kyle C. Lincoln,Damian J. Smith
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780823284160

Get Book

King Alfonso VIII of Castile by Miguel Gómez,Kyle C. Lincoln,Damian J. Smith Pdf

King Alfonso VIII of Castile: Government, Family and War brings together a diverse group of scholars whose work concerns the reign of Alfonso VIII (1158–1215). This was a critical period in the history of the Iberian peninsula, when the conflict between the Christian north and the Moroccan empire of the Almohads was at its most intense, while the political divisions between the five Christian kingdoms reached their high-water mark. From his troubled ascension as a child to his victory at Las Navas de Tolosa near the end of his fifty-seven-year reign, Alfonso VIII and his kingdom were at the epicenter of many of the most dramatic events of the era. Contributors: Martin Alvira Cabrer, Janna Bianchini, Sam Zeno Conedera, S.J., Miguel Dolan Gómez, Carlos de Ayala Martínez, Kyle C. Lincoln, Joseph O’Callaghan, Teofi lo F. Ruiz, Miriam Shadis, Damian J. Smith, James J. Todesca

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004683754

Get Book

A Plural Peninsula: Studies in Honour of Professor Simon Barton by Anonim Pdf

A Plural Peninsula embodies and upholds Professor Simon Barton’s influential scholarly legacy, eschewing rigid disciplinary boundaries. Focusing on textual, archaeological, visual and material culture, the sixteen studies in this volume offer new and important insights into the historical, socio-political and cultural dynamics characterising different, yet interconnected areas within Iberia and the Mediterranean. The structural themes of this volume --the creation and manipulation of historical, historiographical and emotional narratives; changes and continuity in patterns of exchange, cross-fertilisation and the recovery of tradition; and the management of conflict, crisis, power and authority-- are also particularly relevant for the postmedieval period, within and beyond Iberia. Contributors are Janna Bianchini, Jerrilynn D. Dodds, Simon R. Doubleday, Ana Echevarría Arsuaga, Maribel Fierro, Antonella Liuzzo Scorpo, Fernando Luis Corral, Therese Martin, Iñaki Martín Viso, Amy G. Remensnyder, Maya Soifer Irish, -Teresa Tinsley, Sonia Vital Fernández, Alun Williams, Teresa Witcombe, and Jamie Wood. See inside the book

Author : Bernard F. Reilly,Simon R. Doubleday
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781512824636

Get Book

León and Galicia Under Queen Sancha and King Fernando I by Bernard F. Reilly,Simon R. Doubleday Pdf

Acclaimed historians Bernard F. Reilly and Simon R. Doubleday tell the story of the reign of Queen Sancha and King Fernando I, who together ruled the territories of León and Galicia between 1038 and 1065—often regarded as a period in which Christian kings and their vassals asserted themselves more successfully in the face of external rivals, both Viking and Muslim. The reality was more complex. The Iberian Peninsula remained a space of multiple, intertwined forms of power and surprisingly nuanced relationships between—and among—the diverse configurations of Christian and Muslim authority. Some of these complexities would be obscured by later generations of medieval chroniclers, whose narratives focused on the singular authority of the king and expressed a more binary view of interreligious relations. Through their account of the key events and turning points of Sancha and Fernando’s reign, Reilly and Doubleday propose a revised understanding of its political culture, offering a corrective to accounts that have emphasized a stark opposition between Christian and Muslim powers, a supposedly steady growth and centralization of royal government, and the individual figure of the monarch. Exploring the interplay of crown and elites, underscoring the role of royal women, and rejecting the Reconquista paradigm, León and Galicia Under Queen Sancha and King Fernando I reenvisions medieval Iberia at a pivotal stage in European history.

Author : Carey Fleiner,Elena Woodacre
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137513151

Get Book

Virtuous or Villainess? The Image of the Royal Mother from the Early Medieval to the Early Modern Era by Carey Fleiner,Elena Woodacre Pdf

This collection addresses royal motherhood across Europe, from both the medieval and Early Modern periods, including (in)famous and not-so-famous royal mothers. The essays in this collection reveal the complexities and the subtleties inherent in the role of royal mothers and challenges these traditional stereotypes. The volume provides a fresh re-evaluation of these women, from those who have been given an almost saintly status to those who struggled against contemporary chronicles and propaganda that perpetuated the stereotypes associated with ‘bad mothers’– these particular images of saintliness and wickedness have persisted right into the modern era. This series of intriguing case studies reveals how royal mothers were perceived by their contemporaries and explores the motivation for the ways in which they are depicted in modern popular culture. Taken together with the companion volume, Royal Mothers and their Ruling Children, this collection sheds new light on the important and challenging role of mothers within the framework of monarchy and at the epicenter of power.

Author : Scott Oldenburg,Kristin M. S. Bezio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000465419

Get Book

Religion and the Medieval and Early Modern Global Marketplace by Scott Oldenburg,Kristin M. S. Bezio Pdf

Religion and the Medieval and Early Modern Global Marketplace brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to examine the intersection, conflict, and confluence of religion and the market before 1700. Each chapter analyzes the unique interplay of faith and economy in a different locale: Syria, Ethiopia, France, Iceland, India, Peru, and beyond. In ten case studies, specialists of archaeology, art history, social and economic history, religious studies, and critical theory address issues of secularization, tolerance, colonialism, and race with a fresh focus. They chart the tensions between religious and economic thought in specific locales or texts, the complex ways that religion and economy interacted with one another, and the way in which matters of faith, economy, and race converge in religious images of the pre- and early modern periods. Considering the intersection of faith and economy, the volume questions the legacy of early modern economic and spiritual exceptionalism, and the ways in which prosperity still entangles itself with righteousness. The interdisciplinary nature means that this volume is the perfect resource for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars working across multiple areas including history, literature, politics, art history, global studies, philosophy, and gender studies in the medieval and early modern periods.

Author : Andrew Villalon,Donald Kagay
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004345805

Get Book

To Win and Lose a Medieval Battle by Andrew Villalon,Donald Kagay Pdf

Winner of the 2019 Brigadier General James L. Collins Jr. Prize In To Win and Lose a Medieval Battle, Andrew Villalon and Donald Kagay provide a full treatment of one of the major battles of the Hundred Years War. The authors have investigated the background to Nájera, traced its immediate events, and laid out its effects on Iberia and the principal adversaries in the Hundred Years War.

Author : John France,Kelly DeVries,Clifford J. Rogers
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783271306

Get Book

Journal of Medieval Military History by John France,Kelly DeVries,Clifford J. Rogers Pdf

The Journal of Medieval Military History continues to consolidate its now assured position as the leading academic vehicle for scholarly publication in the field of medieval warfare. Medieval Warfare

Author : Clara Pascual-Argente
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004522725

Get Book

Memory, Media, and Empire in the Castilian Romances of Antiquity by Clara Pascual-Argente Pdf

Explores the sophisticated ways in which medieval Castilian clerics and monarchs recreated stories set in the ancient, pagan past to shape cultural memory and monarchic culture in the Iberian kingdom.

Author : Joseph F. O'Callaghan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501735905

Get Book

Alfonso X, the Justinian of His Age by Joseph F. O'Callaghan Pdf

In this magisterial work, Joseph O'Callaghan offers a detailed account of the establishment of Alfonso X's legal code, the Libro de las leyes or Siete Partidas, and its applications in the daily life of thirteenth-century Iberia, both within and far beyond the royal courts. O'Callaghan argues that Alfonso X, el Sabio (the Wise), was the Justinian of his age, one of the truly great legal minds of human history. Alfonso X, the Justinian of His Age highlights the struggles the king faced in creating a new, coherent, inclusive, and all-embracing body of law during his reign, O'Callaghan also considers Alfonso X's own understanding of his role as king, lawgiver, and defender of the faith in order to evaluate the impact of his achievement on the administration of justice. Indeed, such was the power and authority of the Alfonsine code that it proved the king's downfall when his son invoked it to challenge his rule. Throughout this soaring legal and historical biography, O'Callaghan reminds us of the long-term impacts of Alfonso X's legal works, not just on Castilian (and later, Iberian) life, but on the administration of justice across the world.

Author : Sheng-wei Wang
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789811271106

Get Book

Chinese Global Exploration In The Pre-columbian Era: Evidence From An Ancient World Map by Sheng-wei Wang Pdf

How early did the Chinese explore the world? Did the Treasure Fleets, led by Admiral Zheng He, discover many parts of the world before Christopher Columbus? While it is known that Christopher Columbus discovered America and Europe ushered in the Age of Discovery, there is an ongoing debate on the 'unknown' areas depicted in Western maps from the period and earlier. There is agreement among scholars that certain areas seem to have been mapped out prior to the arrival of Western explorers.Chinese Global Exploration in the Pre-Columbian Era: Evidence from an Ancient World Map analyses the world's first modern map — known as Kunyu Wanguo Quantu (KWQ) 《坤輿萬國全圖》 in Chinese, translated as the 'Complete Geographical Map of All Kingdoms of the World' to demonstrate evidence of Chinese global exploration in the Pre-Columbian era. The map of concern was first printed by Italian missionary, Matteo Ricci in 1602, and has been purported to be of entirely European origin, based on Ricci's former maps which he had brought to China in 1582.This book, thus, seeks to be transformational in presenting essential new insights on Pre-Columbian world history and Chinese global exploration, moving away from the norm of the studies of geography and cartography by:

Author : Eitan P. Fishbane
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199948642

Get Book

The Art of Mystical Narrative by Eitan P. Fishbane Pdf

In the study of Judaism, the Zohar has captivated the minds of interpreters for over seven centuries, and continues to entrance readers in contemporary times. Yet despite these centuries of study, very little attention has been devoted to the literary dimensions of the text, or to formal appreciation of its status as one of the great works of religious literature. The Art of Mystical Narrative offers a critical approach to the zoharic story, seeking to explore the interplay between fictional discourse and mystical exegesis. Eitan Fishbane argues that the narrative must be understood first and foremost as a work of the fictional imagination, a representation of a world and reality invented by the thirteenth-century authors of the text. He claims that the text functions as a kind of dramatic literature, one in which the power of revealing mystical secrets is demonstrated and performed for the reading audience. The Art of Mystical Narrative offers a fresh, interdisciplinary perspective on the Zohar and on the intersections of literary and religious studies.

Author : James Albert Harrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Spain
ISBN : UIUC:30112051356613

Get Book

Spain in History by James Albert Harrison Pdf

Author : Charles Till Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Middle Ages
ISBN : MINN:31951002368675H

Get Book

Sources of Medieval History: Western awakening, c. 1000-C. 1500 by Charles Till Davis Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Middle Ages
ISBN : UVA:X000100394

Get Book

Sources of Medieval History: Western awakening, c. 1000-C. 1500 by Anonim Pdf