Medievalists.net » Aragon http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Four Kidnappings in Thirteenth-Century Aragon: Christian Children as Victims of Christian-Muslim Domination http://www.medievalists.net/2015/03/29/four-kidnappings-in-thirteenth-century-aragon-christian-children-as-victims-of-christian-muslim-domination/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/03/29/four-kidnappings-in-thirteenth-century-aragon-christian-children-as-victims-of-christian-muslim-domination/#comments Sun, 29 Mar 2015 13:00:32 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=57234 We don't have to probe too deeply to identify the impetus for these acts: it was simple greed.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/03/29/four-kidnappings-in-thirteenth-century-aragon-christian-children-as-victims-of-christian-muslim-domination/feed/ 0 Late Medieval Knight Reflecting on his Public Life: Hugo de Urriés (c. 1405-c. 1493), Diplomacy and Translating the Classics http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/22/late-medieval-knight-reflecting-public-life-hugo-de-urries-c-1405-c-1493-diplomacy-translating-classics/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/22/late-medieval-knight-reflecting-public-life-hugo-de-urries-c-1405-c-1493-diplomacy-translating-classics/#comments Wed, 22 Oct 2014 12:05:37 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=53515 This article focuses on Aragonese courtier Hugo de Urriés's public profile by means of analyzing the critical points derived from examining his personal, political, cultural and historical stands making use of an invaluable primary source, his letter to Fernando the Catholic in the early 1490s.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/22/late-medieval-knight-reflecting-public-life-hugo-de-urries-c-1405-c-1493-diplomacy-translating-classics/feed/ 0 Men Who Talk about Love in Late Medieval Spain: Hugo de Urriés and Egalitarian Married Life http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/13/men-who-talk-about-love-in-late-medieval-spain-hugo-de-urries-and-egalitarian-married-life/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/13/men-who-talk-about-love-in-late-medieval-spain-hugo-de-urries-and-egalitarian-married-life/#comments Fri, 14 Feb 2014 00:05:04 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=47563 In the last third of the fifteenth century, Hugo de Urriés’s work can offer the modern reader a very rare and informative perspective from the points of view of social history and history of ideas.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/13/men-who-talk-about-love-in-late-medieval-spain-hugo-de-urries-and-egalitarian-married-life/feed/ 0 The Most Dramatic Moment of the Middle Ages! http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/12/the-most-dramatic-moment-of-the-middle-ages/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/12/the-most-dramatic-moment-of-the-middle-ages/#comments Mon, 13 Jan 2014 01:16:44 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46573 An evil king versus a good king. They are half-brothers. It's a fight to the death. In a tent!

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/12/the-most-dramatic-moment-of-the-middle-ages/feed/ 0 Commons in the late medieval Crown of Aragon: Regulation, uses and conflicts, 13th-15th centuries http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/21/commons-in-the-late-medieval-crown-of-aragon-regulation-uses-and-conflicts-13th-15th-centuries/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/21/commons-in-the-late-medieval-crown-of-aragon-regulation-uses-and-conflicts-13th-15th-centuries/#comments Sat, 21 Dec 2013 10:56:39 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=45948 In this paper, we shall show some characteristics of the use of pastures and commons in the Crown of Aragon between the thirteen and fifteenth centuries.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/21/commons-in-the-late-medieval-crown-of-aragon-regulation-uses-and-conflicts-13th-15th-centuries/feed/ 0 Crisis and Regeneration: the Conversos of Majorca, 1391-1416 http://www.medievalists.net/2013/06/10/crisis-and-regeneration-the-conversos-of-majorca-1391-1416/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/06/10/crisis-and-regeneration-the-conversos-of-majorca-1391-1416/#comments Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:11:04 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=41580 This dissertation investigates the economic, social and political factors that promoted Jewish identification among the first two generations of conversos in Majorca following their baptism in 1391.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/06/10/crisis-and-regeneration-the-conversos-of-majorca-1391-1416/feed/ 0 Conflict in the Parish: Antagonistic Relations Between Clerics and Parishioners http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/19/conflict-in-the-parish-antagonistic-relations-between-clerics-and-parishioners/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/19/conflict-in-the-parish-antagonistic-relations-between-clerics-and-parishioners/#comments Sat, 20 Apr 2013 01:05:56 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=40642 Parishioners repeatedly complained about suffering under the rule of a petty tyrant who held grudges and exploited his power to administer the sacraments, or about the surly, combative temperament of their priest who was prone to fighting and creating discord within the parish.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/19/conflict-in-the-parish-antagonistic-relations-between-clerics-and-parishioners/feed/ 0 “Of Arms and Men”: Siege and Battle Tactics in the Catalan Grand Chronicles (1208-1387) http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/09/of-arms-and-men-siege-and-battle-tactics-in-the-catalan-grand-chronicles-1208-1387/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/09/of-arms-and-men-siege-and-battle-tactics-in-the-catalan-grand-chronicles-1208-1387/#comments Wed, 10 Apr 2013 03:08:45 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=40373 What was the nature of combat as then practiced by the Aragonese? Who and what was involved? How were the practicalities of battle realized on the field?

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/09/of-arms-and-men-siege-and-battle-tactics-in-the-catalan-grand-chronicles-1208-1387/feed/ 0 Delivering stability: Primogeniture and autocratic survival in European monarchies 1000-1800 http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/27/delivering-stability-primogeniture-and-autocratic-survival-in-european-monarchies-1000-1800/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/27/delivering-stability-primogeniture-and-autocratic-survival-in-european-monarchies-1000-1800/#comments Thu, 28 Mar 2013 04:14:53 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=40138 Although the dominating position of primogeniture at the end of the period might seem natural given primogeniture's many advantages for the monarch and the ruling elite it was first rather late in history that the principle came to dominate Europe.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/27/delivering-stability-primogeniture-and-autocratic-survival-in-european-monarchies-1000-1800/feed/ 0 Hunting and Hunters in Medieval Aragonese Legislation http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/18/hunting-and-hunters-in-medieval-aragonese-legislation/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/18/hunting-and-hunters-in-medieval-aragonese-legislation/#comments Tue, 19 Mar 2013 03:59:53 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=39987 Our research on hunting in the kingdom of Aragón in the 12th-15th centuries is based on the information provided by two groups of legal texts: those for local or regional areas and those that were applied to all the kingdom after the 13th century.

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