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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 Desclergues of la Villa Ducal de Montblanc (2nd edition) is a comprehensive ancestral chronicle, meticulously tracing the Desclergues family lineage from the Greek era through the Villa Ducal de Montblanc in Tarragona to the present in Belgium. This omnibus edition compiles the entire acclaimed series, offering an exhaustive account of the Desclergues of Montblanc alongside the author's other ancestral lines, including de Patin, de Patin de Langemark, Lesage, Benoit, Den Dauw, 't Kint, Surmont, de Croock, Ardan, Lammens, Decaestecker, and de Silva of Uduwara in Sri Lanka. This scholarly work is enriched by a comprehensive DNA analysis, providing genetic depth to the historical narrative....
An innovative study which explores how the presence of Muslim communities transformed Europe and stimulated Christian society to define itself.
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És un projecte d'edició de les obres teològiques completes d'Arnau de Vilanova, que substitueix l'antic projecte titulat Arnaldi de Villanova Scripta Spiritualia. És dirigit per Josep Perarnau i coeditat per l'Institut d'Estudis Catalans, la Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya. Compta amb el patrocini de la Unió Acadèmica Internacional. El primer volum va aparèixer el 2004 i conté la Introductio in librum [Ioachim] "De semine scripturarum" i l'Allocutio super significatione nominis Tetregammmaton, precedits d'un extens estudi introductori. El segon volum va aparèixer el 2007 i contè l'Alphabetum catholicorum ad inclitum dominum regem Aragonum pro filiis erudiendis in elementis cathol...