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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.
True Citizens
This first book-length, English-language study of medieval urban citizenship focuses on Perpignan, a town second in population only to Barcelona in fourteenth-century Catalonia, yet neglected by modern historians. True Citizens describes and analyzes the rules that governed membership in the community of citizens, the definition of citizenship, and how the development of divergent memories within the community resulted in a crisis of citizenship. This study uses urban citizenship to shed new light on many important historiographical issues, such as Jewish-Christian relations, the place of towns in feudal society, the place of Catalonia in the urban history of medieval Europe, and the transition from the High to the Late Middle Ages.
"Per ço que la vila no vage a perdició"
Al filo de 1380, el municipio de Cervera, como otros tantos de Cataluña, se enfrentaba al creciente desequilibrio entre gastos e ingresos y el platillo de la balanza se inclinaba, de forma cada vez más alarmante, hacia el lado de unos dispendios abrumadores. Por ello parece muy adecuado que P. Verdés haya decidido comenzar por el elemento capital que estuvo en la base de casi todas las vicisitudes experimentadas por la institución municipal y, más allá, por todo el núcleo urbano: el desmesurado endeudamiento censal. Más en concreto, explica con todo detalle cómo los regidores de aquella importante villa gestionaron su deuda y qué consecuencias tuvo dicha gestión, sobre todo, en la...
The Routledge Handbook of Public Taxation in Medieval Europe
Beginning in the twelfth century, taxation increasingly became an essential component of medieval society in most parts of Europe. The state-building process and relations between princes and their subject cities or between citizens and their rulers were deeply shaped by fiscal practices. Although medieval taxation has produced many publications over the past decades there remains no synthesis of this important subject. This volume provides a comprehensive overview on a European scale and suggests new paths of inquiry. It examines the fiscal systems and practices of medieval Europe, including essential themes such as medieval fiscal theory and the power to tax; royal and urban taxation; and ...
Conflict in Fourteenth-Century Iberia
In Conflict in Fourteenth-Century Iberia, Kagay and Villalon trace the complicated economic military, political, and social background of the relationship of Iberia’s two greatest Christian states of the fourteenth century, Castile and the Crown of Aragon and their rulers, Pedro I (r. 1350-1366/69) and Pere III (r. 1336-1387). Besides chapters discussing the War of the Two Pedros (1356-1366) and the Castilian Civil War (1366-1369), the authors provide extended treatments of the strategical and tactical elements of the conflicts, the parliamentary, diplomatic, and governmental developments that occurred because of the conflicts as well as their social and political aftermaths. This work, along with authors’ earlier book on the battle of Nájera (1367) provides a much-needed review of Iberia’s violent fourteenth century.
Escriure a l’edat mitjana: poder, gestió i memòria / Writing in the Middle Ages: Power, Management, and Memory
En el decurs de la història, l’escriptura ha permès la gestió del poder, l’administració dels béns, la fixació de la memòria i la comunicació entre les persones. En aquesta obra, Daniel Piñol-Alabart aporta exemples de documentació de la Cancelleria Reial, de les notaries i de la correspondència privada que testimonien el valor de l’escriptura a l’edat mitjana. Throughout history, writing has enabled the management of power, the administration of properties, the preservation of memory, and communication between individuals. The examples of documents from the Royal Chancery and notaries’ offices and the private correspondence discussed by Daniel Piñol-Alabart in this work bear witness to the signifcance of writing in the Middle Ages.
Governments of the Universitates
As part of his study of the urban history of the Aragonese crown, Titone examines the transformation of civic institutions in Sicilian cities during the 1300s and 1400s, and analyzes the seats of power, the people who wielded power, and the channels and mechanisms through which it was mediated. He covers the establishment of Aragonese rule, the polycentric system of cities from the time of Martin I to Alphonso V, urban magistracies in the Alphonsian period, financial and fiscal policy during the reign of Alphonso V, and socio-professional groups and electoral competition from the time of Martin I to Alphonso V.
The Routledge Handbook of Medieval Rural Life
The Routledge Handbook of Medieval Rural Life brings together the latest research on peasantry in medieval Europe. The aim is to place peasants – as small-scale agricultural producers – firmly at the centre of this volume, as people with agency, immense skill and resilience to shape their environments, cultures and societies. This volume examines the changes and evolutions within village societies across the medieval period, over a broad chronology and across a wide geography. Rural structures, families and hierarchies are examined alongside tool use and trade, as well as the impact of external factors such as famine and the Black Death. The contributions offer insights into multidisciplinary research, incorporating archaeological as well as landscape studies alongside traditional historical documentary approaches across widely differing local and regional contexts across medieval Europe. This book will be an essential reference for scholars and students of medieval history, as well those interested in rural, cultural and social history.
Family, Work, and Household in Late Medieval Iberia
Family, Work, and Household presents the social and occupational life of a late medieval Iberian town in rich, unprecedented detail. The book combines a diachronic study of two regionally prominent families—one knightly and one mercantile—with a detailed cross-sectional urban study of household and occupation. The town in question is the market town and administrative centre of Manresa in Catalonia, whose exceptional archives make such a study possible. For the diachronic studies, Fynn-Paul relied upon the fact that Manresan archives preserve scores of individual family notarial registers, and the cross-sectional study was made possible by the Liber Manifesti of 1408, a cadastral survey ...
