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Factional Struggles
This title is available in Open Access thanks to the support of Université de Genève. Factional Struggles explores the dynamics of conflicts among ruling elites within cities, dynastic courts, rural areas and regional noble lineages during the early modern period. Building on case studies from France, Italy, the Empire and the Swiss Confederation, the essays collected by Mathieu Caesar in this volume highlight how factions were formed and how they shaped political society from the late Middle Ages. The authors have especially focused on how political and religious ideologies contributed to the formation of partisanship, the role of propaganda, and the significance and strategies of factional leaders. The volume shows how factions, despite the generally negative view of them held by theologians and jurists, were in practice accepted and used as political tools.
Text, Liturgy, and Music in the Hispanic Rite
This groundbreaking book offers the first detailed analysis of the textual, liturgical, and musical aspects of the vespertinus, the chant genre most central to the Christian practices that shaped the religious and cultural landscape of medieval Iberia.
Narrative, Piety and Polemic in Medieval Spain
This book presents an original perspective on the variety and intensity of biblical narrative and rhetoric in the evolution of history writing in León-Castile during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. It focuses on six Hispano-Latin chronicles, two of which make unusually overt and emphatic use of biblical texts. Of particular importance is the part played by the influence of exegesis that became integral to scriptural and liturgical influence, both in and beyond monastic institutions. Alun Williams provides close analysis of the text and comparisons with biblical typology to demonstrate how these historians from the north of Iberia were variously dependent on a growing corpus of patristic and early medieval interpretation to understand and define their world and their sense of place. Narrative, Piety and Polemic in Medieval Spain sees Williams examine this material as part of a comparative exploration of language and religious allusion, showing how the authors used these biblical-liturgical elements to convey historical context, purpose and interpretation.
Miles Christi Fortissimus Rex Fernandus
Fernando III (1217-1252) é lembrado historicamente como um rei santo e como o maior reconquistador da Península Ibérica medieval. Nascido de um casamento considerado ilegítimo pela Igreja, o monarca precisou desenvolver estratégias políticas e culturais para legitimar seu poder ao longo de seu reinado. Este livro investiga o processo de legitimação do poder de Fernando III a partir da análise das ideologias e representações desenvolvidas pelo chanceler do reino de Castela, Juan de Osma, na Crônica Latina dos Reis de Castela. Como base teórica para a análise da legitimação do poder real de Fernando III, utilizamos a Nova História Cultural (NHC). Para isso, utilizamo-nos dos t...
Historia de la España Medieval
[4.ª ed. 2023] El proyecto de Historia de España Digital de la Universidad de Salamanca se estructura en varias etapas, concretadas en otros tantos volúmenes. El que ahora ofrecemos es el referido al período medieval, que lleva por título Historia de la España medieval. Este coordinador piensa que no merece siquiera justificar la idoneidad de un título que incluye un término, España, ante el que algunos todavía muestran reticencias. Es sabido que estas han nacido de prejuicios aventurados y puramente ideológicos o bien de un desconocimiento tanto de la propia Edad Media y sus discursos de identidad colectiva como de la tradición historiográfica contemporánea. Ni Alfonso X tuvo ...
The Power of Cities
The Power of Cities focuses on Iberian cities during the lengthy transition from the late Roman to the early modern period, with a particular interest in the change from early Christianity to the Islamic period, and on to the restoration of Christianity. Drawing on case studies from cities such as Toledo, Cordoba, and Seville, it collects for the first time recent research in urban studies using both archaeological and historical sources. Against the common portrayal of these cities characterized by discontinuities due to decadence, decline and invasions, it is instead continuity – that is, a gradual transformation – which emerges as the defining characteristic. The volume argues for a fresh interpretation of Iberian cities across this period, seen as a continuum of structural changes across time, and proposes a new history of the Iberian Peninsula, written from the perspective of the cities. Contributors are Javier Arce, María Asenjo González, Antonio Irigoyen López, Alberto León Muñoz, Matthias Maser, Sabine Panzram, Gisela Ripoll, Torsten dos Santos Arnold, Isabel Toral-Niehoff, Fernando Valdés Fernández, and Klaus Weber.
A arte da guerra em Portugal: 1245 a 1367
O nosso objecto de estudo seria, portanto, a organização e a prática da guerra em Portugal durante o período anterior ao das Guerras Fernandinas, observadas, como havia já sido feito por João Gouveia Monteiro, numa perspectiva de “história da guerra total” e não apenas num plano puramente marcial, da estratégia e da táctica. De facto, como sublinhava Robert L. O´Connell, num estudo sobre as raízes sociológicas dos conflitos militares, a guerra “não é simplesmente violência armada. É antes uma instituição específica, premeditada e dirigida por uma forma de estrutura de governo; ligada com questões de natureza social e não individual; envolvendo a participação (ainda que nem sempre entusiástica) dos combatentes e que pretende obter resultados duradouros e não efémeros”. É esta instituição e as suas principais vertentes que procuraremos compreender melhor ao longo deste trabalho.
People’s Peace
People’s Peace lays a solid foundation for the argument that global peace is possible because ordinary people are its architects. Saikia and Haines offer a unique and imaginative perspective on people’s daily lives across the world as they struggle to create peace despite escalating political violence. The volume’s focus on local and ordinary efforts highlights peace as a lived experience that goes beyond national and international peace efforts. In addition, the contributors’ emphasis on the role of religion as a catalyst for peace moves away from the usual depiction of religion as a source of divisiveness and conflict. Spanning a range of humanities disciplines, the essays in this ...
La construcción del poder real en la monarquía castellana (siglos XI-XV)
Klappentext: El libro analiza la elevación progresiva del poder regio y los cambios institucionales en los reinos que formaron la corona de Castilla. Se intenta explicar el proceso que permitió transitar desde la Monarquía feudal a la Monarquía centralizada. Las transformaciones legales, administrativas, territoriales o fiscales, así como las ideas y las culturas políticas, se interpretan en esta monografía unidas a los conflictos esenciales protagonizados por las fuerzas sociales organizadas. Se sigue con especial interés la acción colectiva de la nobleza señorial y de las ciudades. El libro interpreta la evolución histórica de los siglos XI al XV siguiendo el eje de las profundas interrelaciones entre la política y la sociedad, entre el rey y el reino.
Ante su identidad. La ciudad hispánica en la Edad Media
Ante su identidad. La ciudad hispánica en la Baja Edad Media se inserta en el proceso de examen y reconstrucción de la realidad urbana en los reinos de la Península Ibérica en el período bajomedieval, específicamente desde parámetros de análisis de tipo identidad. Los estudios recogidos en esta obra persiguen el doble objetivo de comprender el fenómeno urbano (en sus aspectos político-identitarios) en una dimensión «panhispánica» capaz de presentar problemas coincidentes en distintas áreas políticas de la península,trascendiendo los análisis «regionales» y compartiendo respuestas de carácter más global; y de perseguir una más completa visión de estos problemas en el conjunto de la Península urbana, así como una ampliación del espectro de cuestiones susceptibles de análisis, enfatizando siempre el interés por un enfoque decididamente comparatista.
