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The Kingdom of León-Castilla Under King Alfonso VII, 1126-1157
The reign of Alfonso VII occupied more than a quarter century during which the political landscape of medieval Spain was altered significantly. It was marked by the enhancement of royal administration, an increased papal intervention in the affairs of the peninsular church, and the development of the church's territorial structure. With the publication of The Kingdom of Leon-Castilla Under King Alfonso VII, 1126-1157, Bernard Reilly completes a detailed, three-part history of the largest of the Christian states of the Iberian peninsula from the mid-eleventh through the mid-twelfth century. Like his earlier books on the reigns of Queen Urraca and King Alfonso VI, this will no doubt be an essential resource for all students of European and Spanish history and to anyone investigating the antecedents of Castile's eventual preeminence in Iberian affairs.
The Lara Family
For much of the Middle Ages, the Lara family was among the most powerful aristocratic lineages in Spain. Proteges of the monarchy at the time of El Cid, their influence reached extraordinary heights during the struggle against the Moors. Hand-in-glove with successive kings, they gathered an impressive array of military and political positions across the Iberian Peninsula. But cooperation gave way to confrontation, as the family was pitted against the crown in a series of civil wars. This book, the first modern study of the Laras, explores the causes of change in the dynamics of power, and narrates the dramatic story of the events that overtook the family. The Laras' militant quest for territorial strength and the conflict with the monarchy led toward a fatal end, but anticipated a form of aristocratic power that long outlived the family. The noble elite would come to dominate Spanish society in the coming centuries, and the Lara family provides important lessons for students of the history of nobility, monarchy, and power in the medieval and early modern world.
Dead Voice
An exploration of the thirteenth-century law code known as Siete Partidas Conceived and promulgated by Alfonso X, King of Castile and León (r. 1252-1282), and created by a workshop of lawyers, legal scholars, and others, the set of books known as the Siete Partidas is both a work of legal theory and a legislative document designed to offer practical guidelines for the rendering of legal decisions and the management of good governance. Yet for all its practical reach, which extended over centuries and as far as the Spanish New World, it is an unusual text, argues Jesús R. Velasco, one that introduces canon and ecclesiastical law in the vernacular for explicitly secular purposes, that embrac...
Eglise et pouvoir dans la péninsule ibérique
La décennie 1250, qui voit la consolidation du processus de reconquête chrétienne avec l'intégration de l'Andalousie bétique au royaume de Castille, passe souvent pour le début d'un déclin des ordres militaires, dont la vocation de lutter contre les infidèles aurait dès lors perdu sa raison d'être. Le présent ouvrage remet en question cette idée reçue. Une analyse détaillée des sources, dont certaines restaient inédites, montre qu'après le milieu du XIIIe siècle les ordres militaires, alors moins étudiés qu'à leurs débuts, n'entrent nullement en décadence. Leur image auprès des contemporains demeure positive et, si leur profil religieux s'atténue au XIVe siècle, une...
Authority and Spectacle in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Bringing together distinguished scholars in honor of Professor Teofilo F. Ruiz, this volume presents original and innovative research on the critical and uneasy relationship between authority and spectacle in the period from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, focusing on Spain, the Mediterranean and Latin America. Cultural scholars such as Professor Ruiz and his colleagues have challenged the notion that authority is elided with high politics, an approach that tends to be monolithic and disregards the uneven application and experience of power by elite and non-elite groups in society by highlighting the significance of spectacle. Taking such forms as ceremonies, rituals, festivals, and ...
Bibliographie des sources historiques
The Dictionnaire de l'anthroponymie romane (PatRom) is a genetic dictionary of personal names; it comprises 6 volumes (with part-volumes). The Bibliographie des sources historiques together with the Cahier des Normes rédactionelles and the secondary literature (Vol. I,1) provide the basis and nucleus of the PatRom dictionary. It records the medieval sources (documents or lists of names), the evaluation of which forms the basis of each article in the PatRom. In addition, various indexes of sigla and abbreviations facilitate access to the historical documentation.
La construcción de la idea de la peste negra (1348-1350) como catástrofe demográfica en la historiografía española
La historiografía española acepta desde hace relativamente poco tiempo, y a menudo por influencia de la historiografía europea, que la epidemia de Peste Negra de 1348 afectó gravemente a toda la Península, pese a la escasez y parquedad de las fuentes existentes, sobre todo en la Corona de Castilla. La aceptación de muy graves pérdidas de población como consecuencia de la epidemia choca, además, con la falta de coherencia entre las cifras que se difunden y la previsible evolución de una población de régimen antiguo, en las condiciones establecidas por la Demografía Histórica, con la gravedad y persistencia de los conflictos bélicos coetáneos, con la revolución fiscal que incrementa muy considerablemente los ingresos de las monarquías hispánicas y con los datos que la investigación sobre la evolución y la coyuntura económica se van conociendo. Al punto de que no es posible aceptar cifras globales de mortalidad tan elevadas como las que se han venido manejando.
