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The Death Penalty in Late-Medieval Catalonia
The death penalty was unusual in medieval Europe until the twelfth century. From that moment on, it became a key instrument of rule in European society, and we can study it in the case of Catalonia through its rich and varied unpublished documentation. The death penalty was justified by Roman Law; accepted by Theology and Philosophy for the Common Good; and used by rulers as an instrument for social intimidation. The application of the death penalty followed a regular trial, and the status of the individual dictated the method of execution, reserving the fire for the worst crimes, as the Inquisition applied against the so-called heretics. The executions were public, and the authorities and t...
Hybrid Identities
The hybriditazion is taken such as a renewal view for studying the historical evolution of society since Middle Ages to current days. Outstanding historians, sociologist, anthropologist, linguistics and literature scholars from many countries, have contributed to the present interdisciplinary work that join 23 selected texts.
The Serf, the Knight, and the Historian
Dominique Barthélemy presents a sharply revisionist account of the history of France around the year 1000, challenging the traditional view that France underwent a kind of revolution at the millennium which ushered in feudalism.
The Rise and Decline of an Iberian Bourgeoisie
One of the first long-term studies of the Catalonian city of Manresa during the late medieval crisis.
The Hungry City
The Hungry City is the story of medieval Barcelona, retold through the lens of food and famine. Between the summer of 1333 and the spring of 1334, severe weather-related grain shortages spread throughout the Mediterranean, and Barcelona's leaders struggled to bring food to the city as its residents grew increasingly desperate. Employing the perspectives of historical actors whose stories are drawn from the records of that catastrophic year, Marie A. Kelleher uses Barcelonans' varied responses to crisis in the food system to present multiple ways of understanding the city—as a physical space, as the center of a network of Mediterranean commerce, as one powerful entity within a broader monar...
Ideology in the Middle Ages
This highly interdisciplinary volume, with a focus on southern European case studies, sets out to illuminate medieval thought, and to consider how the underlying values of the Middle Ages exerted significant influence in medieval society in the West.
The Splendor and Opulence of the Past
The Splendor and Opulence of the Past traces the career of Jaume Caresmar (1717–1791), a church historian and a key figure of the Catalan Enlightenment who transcribed tens of thousands of parchments to preserve and glorify Catalonia's medieval past in the face of its diminishing autonomy. As Paul Freedman shows, Caresmar's books, essays, and transcriptions—some only recently discovered—provide fresh insights into the Middle Ages as remembered in modern Catalonia and illustrate how a nation's past glories and humiliations can inform contemporary politics and culture. From the ninth to the sixteenth centuries, Catalonia was a thriving, independent set of principalities within what would...
The Voice of the People?
Over the last two centuries, Europe has developed various forms of political representation from which democratic parliamentary systems gradually emerged. This book unravels the conditions, scale and impact under which political participation of common burghers and peasants emerged. Political participation in Europe before the Revolutions moved away from the traditional focus on ‘Three Estates’ which has often blurred the interpretation of popular participation’s role in societies. This book instead examines Europe’s key political variants such as high levels of commercialization and urbanization, combined with a balance of powers between competing categories of actors in society con...
CESURA - Rivista 3 (2024)
Terzo volume di CESURA-Rivista (2024), che esplora una varietà di temi che spaziano dalle riflessioni storico-culturali alle analisi relative alla costruzione dell'ideologia monarchica aragonese, attraverso una collezione di studi e confronti che coinvolgono alcuni dei principali studiosi nel campo. La sezione "Studi" ospita gli articoli di Sara Bova, Lucas Fonseca, Alejandro Coroleu, Lluís Cabré e Raimon Sebastian, offrendo una panoramica dettagliata di ricerche recenti. La sezione "Confronti" presenta un dialogo stimolante tra Guido Cappelli e James Hankins. Inoltre, il volume include una parte monografica intitolata "Al crocevia del Mediterraneo. 1. Le linee istituzionali e ideologiche", curata da Fulvio Delle Donne e Guido Cappelli, con contributi di Flocel Sabaté, Lydwine Scordia, Montserrat Ferrer, Lluís Cabré, Alejandro Coroleu, Marta Celati, Luca Ruggio, Sondra Dall'Oco e Alessandro Rizzo.
The Tarragona Vortex
This extensive bibliographic essay underpins the entire Tarragona Vortex study by focusing on this arena as one of the most contested frontiers in Western history, comparable to Jerusalem in the East, for broad issues of Romanization, Westernization, Islamization, and Christianization. Its book length chapters treat (1) diverse historiographies from local and Spanish to comparative Mediterranean and Crusade History, and especially Ethno-historiography and the explanatory concept of frontiers; (2) the phenomena of religion conversion and reform, and the conditioning agents of Islam and Latin Christianity in practice and adversity; (3) religious universalism and violence, especially religious war; (4) the Crusade and Reconquest paradigms and century-long debate; (5) the environment on land and sea, and setting for this History. Although these themes are explored to include due reconsideration but avoid major digressions in its telling about Tarragona and the Tarraconensis, they underly so much of Late-Antique and Medieval historical research that this discussion pertains to the whole field of historical, cultural, and religious studies.
