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Pictorial Narrative in the Romanesque Cloister
Praised as paradisiacal or denounced as impious fantasy, the sculpture of Romanesque cloisters played a powerful role in medieval monastic life. This book demonstrates how sculpture in the cloister, the physical and spiritual heart of the religious foundation, could be shrewdly configured to articulate the most influential ideals and experiences of its individual community. Taking as its focus the visually rich, highly organized narrative programs of three twelfth-century Spanish cloisters, this book reveals the power of such imagery to reflect and reinforce the social and spiritual preoccupations of its age.
St. Laurence & the Holy Grail
Many scholars are convinced that The Holy Chalice of Valencia is the Holy Grail, celebrated in medieval legends as it was venerated by monks in the secluded Monastery of San Juan de la Peña, built into a rocky outcropping of the Spanish Pyrenees. The tradition of Aragón has always insisted that the flaming agate cup of the Holy Chalice was sent to Spain by St. Laurence, the glorious Spaniard martyred on a gridiron during the Valerian persecution in Rome in 258 AD. Now there is new evidence: A sixth-century manuscript written in Latin by St. Donato, an Augustinian monk who founded a monastery in the area of Valencia, provides never-before-published details about Laurence, born in Valencia b...
Church, State, Vellum, and Stone
The essays in this volume, written in honor of retired scholar John Williams, treat a variety of topics pertaining to Medieval Spain; providing an interdisciplinary, international, and intergenerational view of current work in the field.
The Templars and their Sources
Even 700 years after the suppression of the Order of the Temple and the execution of the last grandmaster, Jacques de Molay, there is no shortage of publications on this influential military order. Yet unlike other medieval institutions the Templars are subject to speculative fiction and popular myth which threaten to swamp the fruits of scholarly endeavour. Fortunately, recent years have produced a thriving academic scholarship which is challenging these myths. More and more sources are currently being edited, particularly those for the trial of the Templars (1307–1312). Others are still awaiting indepth study, among them, surprisingly, the greater part of the charters that cover more tha...
Noble Ideals and Bloody Realities
This collection of articles offers new insights into warfare and its impact on medieval society, analyzing social and economic issues, military strategy, technology, medical developments, ideology and rhetoric, and addressing warfare in Europe, the Byzantine Empire and the Muslim world.
At the First Table
Research on European food culture has expanded substantially in recent years, telling us more about food preparation, ingredients, feasting and fasting rituals, and the social and cultural connotations of food. At the First Table demonstrates the ways in which early modern Spaniards used food as a mechanism for the performance of social identity. People perceived themselves and others as belonging to clearly defined categories of gender, status, age, occupation, and religion, and each of these categories carried certain assumptions about proper behavior and appropriate relationships with others. Food choices and dining customs were effective and visible ways of displaying these behaviors in ...
La Corónica
"Spanish medieval language and literature newsletter." (varies).
The Fires of Excellence
This work details the Oriental influence, both direct and indirect, on architecture in Spain and Portugal. It covers, amongst others, gothic, Moorish, Midejar and Manveline architecture.
Tauste en su Historia. Actas de las XI Jornadas sobre la Historia de Tauste.
El archivo de Ángel Betoré. Enrique Galé Casajús Intervención de la monarquía en los asuntos municipales de gobierno en tiempos de crisis: sobre las ordenanzas de la Villa y las obras del Canal de Tauste a principios del siglo XVII. Miguel Ángel Pallarés Jiménez Las ganaderías de reses bravas en Tauste en los siglos XIX y XX. Armando Sancho Recaj Origenes de la residencia de Tauste. Mosén Desiderio Celma Lou El monasterio de San Juan de la Peña y el Priorato de Santa María de Tauste. Ana Isabel Lapeña Paul
Spazi sacri, luoghi di culto, santuari in area alpina
Il rapporto fra montagna e culto, altitudine e sacralità, elevazione e devozione è un tema che continua ad interessare, e non solo perché la montagna è da sempre considerata elemento fondamentale di molte religioni. È infatti necessario andare al di là delle impressioni alimentate dal topos della “montagna sacra”, per verificare come l’ambiente montano sia particolarmente adatto a cogliere l’intreccio – consolidatosi nel corso dei secoli – fra la dimensione religiosa e quella sociopolitica, economica, culturale. In questa prospettiva qualificati studiosi con formazione e competenze diverse, coinvolti in un progetto di ricerca di respiro internazionale, hanno focalizzato la loro attenzione sul mondo alpino, assunto a laboratorio privilegiato di un’indagine diacronica e multidisciplinare proiettata anche – in termini di comparazione tematica e metodologica – verso la realtà appenninica e quella pirenaica.
