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History of Catalonia and Its Implications for Contemporary Nationalism and Cultural Conflict
Recent political developments in Spain regarding Catalonia have prompted scholars from several disciplines to research the singularity of this region and of the territories of the old Crown of Aragon. Against the backdrop of the pro-independence movement, those in favor and against have insisted on the particularity or commonality of Catalonia and the Països Catalans (Catalan-speaking areas) within the Spanish State. From the Catalan point of view, their singularity is not sufficiently recognized, and respect for their institutions and their autonomy is at stake to the point that many prefer to secede from Spain. Singularity or its absence play a relevant role in the construction of identit...
Melcior Miralles: Crònica i dietari del capellà d'Alfons el Magnànim
Aquesta crònica i dietari, que és ambdues coses, ha estat considerada una de les més interessants del segle XV valencià. El segle d'or de la literatura no va ser, tanmateix, una època que produís obres historiogràfiques de gran alçada en la Corona d'Aragó, contràriament al que havia succeït en la centúria anterior. En aquest context, encara adquireix més relleu, ja que es tracta d'una crònica general dels reis d'Aragó i, amb una intencionalitat especial, dels monarques de la dinastia Trastàmara del segle XV, però alhora és també un dietari de la ciutat de València. L'autor, un escriptor eclesiàstic, se centra en els regnats d'Alfons el Magnànim i de Joan II, i aporta una font abundosa d'informacions, sovint acolorides i sorprenents, sobre la vida quotidiana de la ciutat de València en un dels moments més brillants de la seua història.
Historical Dictionary of the Catalans
In this reference, Buffery and Marcer cover all of the areas historically inhabited by the Catalan people. These are, in order of size and population: Catalonia, which accounts for over half of the population of the Catalan-speaking areas; Valencia, with over a third; the Balearic Islands with just under 8 percent; and the Catalunya Nord, the Principality of Andorra, and the Catalan-speaking areas within Aragon, Murcia, and Alghero. The Historical Dictionary of the Catalans deals not only with the people who live in Catalonia, but with the language and culture of the Catalan countries as well. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 600 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, places, events, institutions, and aspects of culture, society, economy, and politics.
Visions of Deliverance
In Visions of Deliverance, Mayte Green-Mercado traces the circulation of Muslim and crypto-Muslim apocalyptic texts known as joferes through formal and informal networks of merchants, Sufis, and other channels of diffusion among Muslims and Christians across the Mediterranean from Constantinople and Venice to Morisco towns in eastern Spain. The movement of these prophecies from the eastern to the western edges of the Mediterranean illuminates strategies of Morisco cultural and political resistance, reconstructing both productive and oppositional interactions and exchanges between Muslims and Christians in the early modern Mediterranean. Challenging a historiography that has primarily underst...
Dels orígens a l'abolició
La Generalitat, el nom que actualment designa les institucions de l’autogovern valencià, recupera el d’una institució nascuda en la segona meitat del segle XIV i perfilada en la seua naturalesa, composició i funcions el 1418, fa més de 600 anys. Amb motiu de l’efemèride, el 2018 es va celebrar un congrés internacional organitzat per les cinc universitats públiques valencianes i patrocinat per la Generalitat. El present volum recull les comunicacions presentades a la sessió dedicada a la història de la institució. En total, disset textos que examinen, respectivament, les relacions entre la Generalitat i les Corts –no debades la Diputació del General o Generalitat va nàixer...
Iberia and the Mediterranean World of the Middle Ages
This series of essays, dedicated to the work and career of Father Robert I. Burns, S.J., treats the complex relationship of Spain to the Western Mediterranean and Atlantic on the eve of Spain's ascent as a world power.
La Universitat i el seu entorn urbà
Una mirada plural al barri de la Universitat a cura d’historiadors, geògrafs i arquitectes. S’hi estudia la història, el marc geogràfic, els carrers, els casals, els edificis institucionals, els jardins i les esglésies en una llarga perspectiva, des dels antecedents romans fins a l’arquitectura moderna. La integració d’universitat i ciutat ha estat fecunda al llarg de cinc segles.
Enemies and Familiars
A prominent Mediterranean port located near Islamic territories, the city of Valencia in the late fifteenth century boasted a slave population of pronounced religious and ethnic diversity: captive Moors and penally enslaved Mudejars, Greeks, Tartars, Russians, Circassians, and a growing population of black Africans. By the end of the fifteenth century, black Africans comprised as much as 40 percent of the slave population of Valencia. Whereas previous historians of medieval slavery have focused their efforts on defining the legal status of slaves, documenting the vagaries of the Mediterranean slave trade, or examining slavery within the context of Muslim-Christian relations, Debra Blumenthal...
Anatomy and Anatomists in Early Modern Spain
Taking the Vesalian anatomical revolution as its point of departure, this volume charts the apparent rise and fall of anatomy studies within universities in sixteenth-century Spain, focussing particularly on primary sources from 1550 to 1600. In doing so, it both clarifies the Spanish contribution to the field of anatomy and disentangles the distorted political and historiographical viewpoints emerging from previous research. Studies of early modern Iberian science have only been carried out coherently and collaboratively in the last few decades, even though fierce debates on the subject have dominated Spanish historiography for more than two centuries. In the field of anatomy studies, many uninformed and biased readings of archival sources have resulted in a very confused picture of the practice of dissection and the teaching of anatomy in the Iberian Peninsula, in which the highly complex conditions of anatomical research within Spain’s national context are often oversimplified. The new empirical evidence that this book brings to light suggests a far more multifaceted narrative of Iberian Renaissance anatomy than has been presented to date.
Fire in the Placa
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Fire in the Plaça is the first full-length study in English of the Patum, a Corpus Christi fire festival unique to Berga, Catalonia, Spain, celebrated annually since the seventeenth century. Participants in the festival are transformed through drink, sleep deprivation, crowding, constant motion, and the smoke and sparks of close-range firecrackers into passionate members of a precarious body politic. Combining richly layered symbolism with intense bodily expression, the Patum has long served as a grassroots equivalent of grand social theory; it moves from a representation of social divisions to a forcible communion among them. The...
