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Marriage Litigation in the Western Church, 12151517
Examines how late medieval church courts were used for marriage cases, and how this varied dramatically across Europe.
Art, Liturgy, and Legend in Renaissance Toledo
Using patronage as a filter, Bosch relates the style, content, and function of these lavish manuscripts to the many-sided ritual life of the Cathedral and, beyond that, to its social and political role in efforts to forge Spanish identity in the midst of the Reconquista." "This book will appeal to art historians, Hispanists, and all those interested in Renaissance history and culture."--BOOK JACKET.
The Christianization of Knowledge in Late Antiquity
The Christianization of Knowledge in Late Antiquity: Intellectual and Material Transformations traces the beginning of Late Antiquity from a new angle. Shifting the focus away from the Christianization of people or the transformation of institutions, Mark Letteney interrogates the creation of novel and durable structures of knowledge across the Roman scholarly landscape, and the embedding of those changes in manuscript witnesses. Letteney explores scholarly productions ranging from juristic writings and legal compendia to theological tractates, military handbooks, historical accounts, miscellanies, grammatical treatises, and the Palestinian Talmud. He demonstrates how imperial Christianity inflected the production of truth far beyond the domain of theology — and how intellectual tools forged in the fires of doctrinal controversy shed their theological baggage and came to undergird the great intellectual productions of the Theodosian Age, and their material expressions. Letteney's volume offers new insights and a new approach to answering the perennial question: What does it mean for Rome to become Christian? This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
The Lara Family
For much of the Middle Ages, the Lara family was among the most powerful aristocratic lineages in Spain. Proteges of the monarchy at the time of El Cid, their influence reached extraordinary heights during the struggle against the Moors. Hand-in-glove with successive kings, they gathered an impressive array of military and political positions across the Iberian Peninsula. But cooperation gave way to confrontation, as the family was pitted against the crown in a series of civil wars. This book, the first modern study of the Laras, explores the causes of change in the dynamics of power, and narrates the dramatic story of the events that overtook the family. The Laras' militant quest for territorial strength and the conflict with the monarchy led toward a fatal end, but anticipated a form of aristocratic power that long outlived the family. The noble elite would come to dominate Spanish society in the coming centuries, and the Lara family provides important lessons for students of the history of nobility, monarchy, and power in the medieval and early modern world.
Defining Heresy
In Defining Heresy, Irene Bueno investigates the theories and practices of anti-heretical repression in the first half of the fourteenth century, focusing on the figure of Jacques Fournier/Benedict XII (c.1284-1342). Throughout his career as a bishop-inquisitor in Languedoc, theologian, and, eventually, pope at Avignon, Fournier made a multi-faceted contribution to the fight against religious dissent. Making use of judicial, theological, and diplomatic sources, the book sheds light on the multiplicity of methods, discourses, and textual practices mobilized to define the bounds of heresy at the end of the Middle Ages. The integration of these commonly unrelated areas of evidence reveals the intellectual and political pressures that inflected the repression of heretics and dissidents in the peculiar context of the Avignon papacy.
Los alfoces de Arreba, de Bricia y de Santa Gadea Los valles de Bezana y de Zamanzas.
El tercer volumen de la colección Historia de las Merindades está dedicado a los alfoces y valles del Noroeste de las Merindades: Arija, Alfoz de Arreba, Alfoz de Bricia, Alfoz de Santa Gadea, Valle de Valdebezana y Valle de Zamanzas. Se analizan, también, cinco pueblos del actual Valle de Manzanedo, y tres pueblos de la actual Merindad de Valdeporres que en 1590 estaban incluidos en el Alfoz de Arreba, en el caso de Manzanedo y en el Valle de Bezana, en el caso de Valdeporres. La zona estudiada en esta obra estuvo marcada por un importante desarrollo en el periodo del Hierro I (en torno al año 600 a.C.) esa organización dejó su rastro en la composición de las jurisdicciones supraalde...
Espinosa de los Monteros Los Montes de Somo y de Pas
El segundo volumen de la colección Historia de las Merindades está dedicado a la jurisdicción de Espinosa de los Monteros, una jurisdicción muy especial. Veremos cómo el medieval valle de Espinosa fue llamado a partir de la Baja Edad Media Espinosa de los Monteros, fue siempre de realengo, no tuvo cambios en su composición desde que tenemos documentación de ella, en la Alta Edad Media. La historia medieval de la jurisdicción de Espinosa no estaría completa sin hacer la historia de los montes de Somo y de Pas, dado que han sido y, aún son, su medio y forma de vida principal. Son los montes del cordal cantábrico, límites entre las merindades de Valdeporres, de Sotoscueva y Espinosa...
Alfonso X, the Justinian of His Age
In this magisterial work, Joseph O'Callaghan offers a detailed account of the establishment of Alfonso X's legal code, the Libro de las leyes or Siete Partidas, and its applications in the daily life of thirteenth-century Iberia, both within and far beyond the royal courts. O'Callaghan argues that Alfonso X, el Sabio (the Wise), was the Justinian of his age, one of the truly great legal minds of human history. Alfonso X, the Justinian of His Age highlights the struggles the king faced in creating a new, coherent, inclusive, and all-embracing body of law during his reign, O'Callaghan also considers Alfonso X's own understanding of his role as king, lawgiver, and defender of the faith in order to evaluate the impact of his achievement on the administration of justice. Indeed, such was the power and authority of the Alfonsine code that it proved the king's downfall when his son invoked it to challenge his rule. Throughout this soaring legal and historical biography, O'Callaghan reminds us of the long-term impacts of Alfonso X's legal works, not just on Castilian (and later, Iberian) life, but on the administration of justice across the world.
On the Social Origins of Medieval Institutions
This collection of essays provides new insight based on archival research into the medieval formation of human institutions of government, hospitals and warfare in Spain and England.
National Union Catalog
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
