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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.
The Mercenary Mediterranean
Over the course of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the Christian kings of Aragon recruited thousands of foreign Muslim soldiers to serve in their armies and as members of their royal courts. Based on extensive research in Arabic, Latin and Romance sources, 'The Mercenary Mediterranean' explores this little-known and misunderstood history.
True Citizens
This study of urban citizenship sheds new light on medieval Catalonia's communal development, Jewish-Christian relations, Catalonia's place within 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 Hundred Years War
This volume, the first of a two-volume set, is the work of fourteen European and American scholars and focuses on the wider aspects of the Hundred Years. These essays range far afield from the traditional heartlands of Hundred Years War studies to investigate the influence of the conflict on Italy, the Low Countries, and Spain and on such topics as urban history, and the actualities of weapon use on the battlefield. A number of the essays in this collection seek to re-examine old but thorny questions long associated with the conflict, including the real immediate impact of gunpowder technology on siege warfare during the fourteenth century and the “purposeful” strategy of Henry V in stag...
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 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 ...
Medieval Urban Identity
The increasing prominence of urban life during the Middle Ages is undoubtedly one of the more transcendental and multi-faceted aspects of this era, having an effect on rules and laws, hygiene, and economic organisation. This book brings together contributions from a wide range of scholars who adopt a new approach to medieval urban life, using health, the economy, and regulations and laws as frames of reference for gaining a greater understanding of this historical period. Through these vectors, interesting insights are provided into medieval housing, cures for diseases, the work of artisans and merchants, and the relationship between the town and the wider region in which it was located.
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.
