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Mapping Narrations – Narrating Maps
This volume offers the author’s central articles on the medieval and early modern history of cartography for the first time in English translation. A first group of essays gives an overview of medieval cartography and illustrates the methods of cartographers. Another analyzes world maps and travel accounts in relation to mapped spaces. A third examines land surveying, cartographical practices of exploration, and the production of Portolan atlases.
The Pseudo-historical Image of the Prophet Muhammad in Medieval Latin Literature: A Repertory
Exploring and understanding how medieval Christians perceived and constructed the figure of the Prophet Muhammad is of capital relevance in the complex history of Christian-Muslim relations. Medieval authors writing in Latin from the 8th to the 14th centuries elaborated three main images of the Prophet: the pseudo-historical, the legendary, and the eschatological one. This volume focuses on the first image and consists of texts that aim to reveal the (Christian) truth about Islam. They have been taken from critical editions, where available, otherwise they have been critically transcribed from manuscripts and early printed books. They are organized chronologically in 55 entries: each of them provides information on the author and the work, date and place of composition, an introduction to the passage(s) reported, and an updated bibliography listing editions, translations and studies. The volume is also supplied with an introductory essay and an index of notable terms.
Urban Transformations in the Late Antique West: Materials, Agents, and Models
This volume is the fruit of a highly productive international research gathering academic and professional (field- and museum) colleagues to discuss new results and approaches, recent finds and alternative theoretical assessments of the period of transition and transformation of classical towns in Late Antiquity. Experts from an array of modern countries attended and presented to help compare and contrast critically archaeologies of diverse regions and to debate the qualities of the archaeology and the current modes of study. While a number of papers inevitably focused on evidence available for both Spain and Portugal, we were delighted to have a spread of contributions that extended the picture to other territories in the Late Roman West and Mediterranean. The emphasis was very much on the images presented by archaeology (rescue and research works, recent and past), but textual data were also brought into play by various contributors.
Recursos humanos en investigación y desarrollo. Universidades y CSIC
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Handbook of Medieval Culture. Volume 3
A follow-up publication to the Handbook of Medieval Studies, this new reference work turns to a different focus: medieval culture. Medieval research has grown tremendously in depth and breadth over the last decades. Particularly our understanding of medieval culture, of the basic living conditions, and the specific value system prevalent at that time has considerably expanded, to a point where we are in danger of no longer seeing the proverbial forest for the trees. The present, innovative handbook offers compact articles on essential topics, ideals, specific knowledge, and concepts defining the medieval world as comprehensively as possible. The topics covered in this new handbook pertain to issues such as love and marriage, belief in God, hell, and the devil, education, lordship and servitude, Christianity versus Judaism and Islam, health, medicine, the rural world, the rise of the urban class, travel, roads and bridges, entertainment, games, and sport activities, numbers, measuring, the education system, the papacy, saints, the senses, death, and money.
Le détroit de Gibraltar (Antiquité - Moyen Âge). II
Le détroit de Gibraltar est le produit d’une longue construction historique, comme en témoignent ses appellations successives, du détroit de Gadès à la « montagne de Tariq ». Cet espace a en effet été progressivement façonné par les pouvoirs qui l’ont dominé, aussi bien à l’aide d’acteurs (gouverneurs, délégués militaires ou civils) que de territoires (cités, ports, arsenaux). Quoique le choix d’une administration propre intégrant ses deux rives ait été l’exception, les constructions impériales qui se sont succédé en Extrême Occident ont porté une attention particulière à cet espace de limites, conceptualisé autant comme charnière que comme frontière. Ce deuxième ouvrage collectif issu des travaux de l’ANR DÉTROIT questionne ainsi le rôle du Détroit dans la construction des empires dans la longue durée, de la domination punique jusqu’à la chute de Grenade.
Bishops under Threat
The late antique and the early medieval periods witnessed the flourishing of bishops in the West as the main articulators of social life. This influential position exposed them to several threats, both political and religious. Researchers have generally addressed violence, rebellions or conflicts to study the dynamics related to secular powers during these periods. They haven’t paid similar attention, however, to those analogous contexts that had bishops as protagonists. This book proposes an approach to bishops as threatened subjects in the late antique and early medieval West. In particular, the volume pursues three main goals. Firstly, it aims to identify the different types of threats ...
Latin Literatures of Medieval and Early Modern Times in Europe and Beyond
The textual heritage of Medieval Latin is one of the greatest reservoirs of human culture. Repertories list more than 16,000 authors from about 20 modern countries. Until now, there has been no introduction to this world in its full geographical extension. Forty contributors fill this gap by adopting a new perspective, making available to specialists (but also to the interested public) new materials and insights. The project presents an overview of Medieval (and post-medieval) Latin Literatures as a global phenomenon including both Europe and extra-European regions. It serves as an introduction to medieval Latin's complex and multi-layered culture, whose attraction has been underestimated un...
Entre civitas y madina
En las regiones a las dos orillas del Gaditanum fretum existía una concentración de ciudades única en el Imperio. La importancia y el significado de estas ciudades como centros de poder se mantienen -según el debate actual- sin interrupción hasta comienzos del siglo VIII, pero, ¿cómo se desarrolla a partir de entonces, después de estos años que hasta ahora siempre se habían considerado como punto de inflexión decisivo en la historia de estas regiones? Ya en 1985, Hugh N. Kennedy llamó la atención sobre el hecho de que la llamada «Madīna» debería considerarse consecuencia de transformaciones sociales y económicas, más que resultado de una «islamización» abrupta de la sociedad. Este volumen, en función de la nueva valoración del mundo de las ciudades de la Antigüedad tardía, quiere cuestionar sus consecuencias para la época de la temprana Edad Media, desde una perspectiva interdisciplinar y sobre una nueva base material.
Historiadores en España
Después de casi cuarenta años de democracia, la ciencia histórica en España se encuentra amenazada por las trampas del presentismo y el relativismo, la memoria, la ideología y los revisionismos políticos. Para comprender lo ocurrido, el libro ofrece una especie de carta geográfica de la historiografía, del oficio y la comunidad de historiadores españoles definida durante el pasado siglo xx. Una institucionalización historiográfica marcada por la guerra civil y la larga dictadura franquista cuyas luces y sombras alcanzan nuestra actualidad más inmediata. Ante tal situación, las propuestas que se despliegan en las páginas de esta obra son claras: primero, por ser una llamada directa a la reflexión autocrítica de una profesión cuyo desarrollo se fortalece o debilita de acuerdo a los impulsos motores que le transmite la noción de responsabilidad. Y, acto seguido, por plantear un programa a favor de la investigación rigurosa de la historia de la historiografía española.
