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Ports in the Medieval European Atlantic
Presents a wealth of original research findings on how medieval ports actually worked, providing new insights on shipping, trade, port society and culture, and systems of regional and international integration.
Textual Agency
Textual Agency examines the massive proliferation of poetic texts in fifteenth-century Spain, focusing on the important yet little-known cancionero poetry – the largest poetic corpus of the European Middle Ages. Ana M. Gómez-Bravo situates this cultural production within its social, political, and material contexts. She places the different forms of document production fostered by a shifting political and urban model alongside the rise in literacy and access to reading materials and spaces. At the core of the book lies an examination of both the materials of writing and how human agents used and transformed them, giving way to a textual agency that pertains not only to writers, but to the inscribed paper. Gómez-Bravo also explores how authorial and textual agency were competing forces in the midst of an era marked by the institution of the Inquisition, the advent of the absolutist state, the growth of cities, and the constitution of the Spanish nation.
EL TRIUNFO DE LA PÓLVORA
El triunfo de la pólvora plantea una aproximación multidisciplinar a la historia bajomedieval de la artillería pirobalística. Interesan el armamento en sí mismo y su utilización, estudiados tanto a partir de la iconografía como de los testimonios historiográficos y documentales; pero también, los artífices de las piezas, el modo en que se organizaban sus funciones y su producción, e incluso sus trayectorias biográficas y personales. Y, por supuesto, se analizan los cambios experimentados por las fortificaciones para integrar y hacer frente al arma de fuego. El reino de Castilla, en su conjunto y con sus distintas fronteras, centraliza el contenido del volumen, aunque siempre en r...
International Medieval Bibliography
Lists articles, notes, and similar literature on medieval subjects in journals, Festschriften, conference proceedings, and collected essays. Covers all aspects of medieval studies within the date range of 450 to 1500 for the entire continent of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa for the period before the Muslim conquest and parts of those areas subsequently controlled by Christian powers.
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 ...
Fisco, legitimidad y conflicto en los reinos hispánicos (siglos XIII-XVII)
La implantación de sistemas fiscales severos, intrusivos y eventualmente violentos, a partir de la Baja Edad Media, exigió un constante esfuerzo de legitimación diri-gido a producir el imprescindible consenso social que hiciera posible su funcionamiento. Este volumen, que se inscribe entre las publicaciones de la Red Arca Comunis, analiza tres problemas fundamentales de aquel proceso en los reinos hispánicos: la creación del impuesto, su legitimación y la conflictividad derivada de la punción fi scal. En él participan dieciocho especialistas, procedentes de trece universidades y otros centros de investigación, con el propósito añadido de rendir un merecido homenaje académico al profesor emérito de la Universidad de Zaragoza J. Ángel Sesma Muñoz.
La guerra privada en la Edad Media
El libro que el lector tiene en sus manos ofrece la primera síntesis integral sobre la guerra privada en la península ibérica durante la Baja Edad Media. Hubo un tiempo en el que en la Europa cristiana el recurso a la violencia, incluso a la guerra, era un mecanismo legítimo de resolución de conflictos entre particulares, fundamentalmente entre miembros de la nobleza. Dicha violencia abarcaba diversas formas. Diez historiadores, especialistas en el tema, analizan el fenómeno desde una óptica regional en las Coronas de Aragón y de Castilla para ofrecer un panorama global que pueda servir no solo como ejercicio de reflexión, sino también como elemento dinamizador del debate sobre el papel de la violencia en las sociedades medievales.
Sebastiano del Piombo and the World of Spanish Rome
Sebastiano del Piombo (c.1485-1547) was a close associate and rival of the central artistic figures of the High Renaissance, notably Michelangelo and Raphael. After the death of Raphael and the departure of Michelangelo from Rome, Sebastiano became the dominant artistic personality in the city. Despite being one of most significant artistic figures of the period, he remains the last artist of major importance in the western canon about whom no recent work has been published in English. In this study, Piers Baker-Bates approaches Sebastiano?s career through analysis of the patrons he attracted following his arrival at Rome. The first half of the book concentrates on Sebastiano?s network of pa...
The Fight for Status and Privilege in Late Medieval and Early Modern Castile, 1465–1598
In The Fight for Status and Privilege in Late Medieval and Early Modern Castile, 1465–1598, Michael Crawford investigates conflicts about and resistance to the status of hidalgo, conventionally understood as the lowest, most heavily populated rank in the Castilian nobility. It is generally accepted that legal privileges were based on status and class in this premodern society. Crawford presents and explains the contentious realities and limitations of such legal privileges, particularly the conventional claim of hidalgo exemption from taxation. He focuses on efforts to claim these privileges as well as opposing efforts to limit and manage them. Although historians of Spain acknowledge such...
