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From Al-Andalus to the Americas (13th-17th Centuries). Destruction and Construcion of Societies offers a multi-perspective view of the filiation of different colonial and settler colonial experiences, from the Medieval Iberian Peninsula to the early Modern Americas. All the articles in the volume refer the reader to colonial orders that extended over time, that substantially reduced indigenous populations, that imposed new productive strategies and created new social hierarchies. The ideological background and how conquests were organised; the treatment given to the conquered lands and people; the political organisations, and the old and new agricultural systems are issues discussed in this volume. Contributors are David Abulafia, Manuel Ardit, Antonio Espino, Adela Fábregas, Josep M. Fradera, Enric Guinot, Helena Kirchner, Antonio Malpica, Virgilio Martínez-Enamorado, Carmen Mena, António Mendes, Félix Retamero, Inge Schjellerup, Josep Torró, and Antoni Virgili.
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 eff...
This is a revisionary study of Muslims living under Christian rule during the Spanish 'reconquest'. It looks beyond the obvious religious distinctions and delves into the subtleties of identity in the thirteenth-century Crown of Aragon, uncovering a social dynamic in which sectarian differences comprise only one of the many factors in the causal complex of political, economic and cultural reactions. Beginning with the final stage of independent Muslim rule in the Ebro valley region, the book traces the transformation of Islamic society into mudéjar society under Christian domination. This was a case of social evolution in which Muslims, far from being passive victims of foreign colonisation, took an active part in shaping their institutions and experiences as subjects of the Infidel. Using a diverse range of methodological approaches, this book challenges widely held assumptions concerning Christian-Muslim relations in the Middle Ages, and minority-majority relations in general.
Examines the role of written agreements in eleventh- and twelfth-century Catalonia, and how they determined the social and political order. However, in addressing feudalism, the 'transformation of the year 1000', medieval literacy, and the nature of Mediterranean societies, it has wide implications for the history of medieval Europe.
The Second Crusade (1145-49) was an unprecedented attempt to expand the borders of Christianity in the Holy Land, the Baltic, and the Iberian peninsula. This wide-ranging collection offers a series of original interpretations of new and partially explored evidence of the crusade. The essays examine the planning, execution, and consequences of the crusade for Western Europe, the Crusader States of the Holy Land, and the Muslim Near East.
Fa a penes trenta o quaranta anys el feudalisme català encara era percebut com una variant marginal i imperfecta d’un feudalisme clàssic que es circumscrivia a l’espai comprès entre el Loira i el Rin. El col·loqui de Girona de 1985, organitzat sota el doble impuls renovador de les obres de Pierre Bonnassie i Pierre Guichard, capgirà radicalment aquesta visió, en valorar els trets originals del feudalisme català, de la seua formació i expansió, i en introduir paral·lelament l’estudi d’aquelles societats d’al-Andalus que a partir del segle XII van ser objecte de conquesta per part dels feudals catalans. Disset anys després, aquest nou col·loqui celebrat a Barcelona aprofu...
Al País Valencià és poca la documentació conservada pertanyent a les senyories laiques, en contraposició a altres dominis més potents, com les institucions eclesiàstiques. Tot i això, a la Biblioteca de Catalunya es conserva un còdex, fins ara gairebé desconegut, relatiu a l’alqueria de Xestalgar, a la comarca dels Serrans. El propòsit del còdex fou, segons l''autor, deixar manifesta la jurisdicció que els senyors de Xestalgar exerciren sobre el seu terme i la forma de transmissió dels seus drets, des de Jaume I -que l’any 1238 la cedí a Rodrigo Ortís- fins els comtes d’Alcúdia. Ara bé, la major part de la documentació abasta tan solament el període feudal on es configurà aquesta jurisdicció.
Religious experience in the European Middle Ages represented an intersection of a range of aspects of existence, including everyday life, relations of power, and urban development, among others. As such, religion offered a reflection of many facets of life in this period. This book brings together scholars from different parts of the world who use a variety of different examples from the medieval era to show this specific path through which to reach a renewed perspective for understanding the European Middle Ages.
This volume is a collection of essays on medieval Spain, written by leading scholars on three continents, that celebrates the career of Thomas F. Glick. Using a wide array of innovative methodological approaches, these essays offer insights on areas of medieval Iberian history that have been of particular interest to Glick: irrigation, the history of science, and cross-cultural interactions between Jews, Christians, and Muslims. By bringing together original research on topics ranging from water management and timekeeping to poetry and women’s history, this volume crosses disciplinary boundaries and reflects the wide-ranging, gap-bridging work of Glick himself, a pivotal figure in the historiography of medieval Spain.
Acotando previamente el ámbito de estudio con el seguimiento de la historiografía y los aspectos diplomáticos, hermenéuticos, onomásticos e interpretativos, así como procurando un conocimiento interrelacionado desde las distintas vertientes del saber histórico, la presente obra indaga en el proceso que, entre los siglos IX y XII, ensancha los condados catalanes a costa de las tierras musulmanas.