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Jacopo da Firenze and the beginning of Italian vernacular algebra
Posted on December 15, 2012 | No CommentsWhatever the reason, nobody seems to have taken an interest in the treatise before Warren Van Egmond inspected it in the mid-seventies during the preparation of his global survey of Italian Renaissance manuscripts concerned with practical mathematics. -
“We Have Met Devils!”: The Almogavars of James I and Peter III of Catalonia-Aragon
Posted on December 9, 2012 | No CommentsWho were these Almogavars, who were able to defeat these heavily-armed and highly-trained knights? Why were they consistently effective against all who came before them? How were they utilized by James I the Conqueror (1213-1276) and his son Peter III the Great (1276-1285), count-kings of Catalonia-Aragon, to further the interests of their realm? These are the questions that this paper will attempt to answer. -
How Rich a Lawyer, How Poor a Tailor? An Economic Hierarchy of Occupations in Fifteenth-Century Spain
Posted on October 18, 2012 | No CommentsA tax record from the Catalan city of Manresa known as the Liber Manifesti of 1408 provides detailed occupational and capital-holding data for the heads of 640 households. -
The Family of Wilfred I, the Hairy: Marriage and the Consolidation of Power, 800-1000
Posted on October 16, 2012 | No CommentsMy principal objective is to reconsider the system of marriage alliances of the counts of the Marca Hispanica during the generations immediately before and after Wilfred I -
A Tale of Two Kings: The Use of King David in the Chronicle of Pere III of Catalonia
Posted on September 25, 2012 | No CommentsIt is my contention that Pere chose to emulate David because David was a highly respected Biblical king, as well as the fact that David's history as a warrior could be used to spiritually justify the military actions of Pere. -
Experimental Archaeology at L’Esquerda – Crops, Storage, Metalcraft and Earthworks in Mediaeval and Ancient Times
Posted on June 2, 2012 | No CommentsThe archaeological site of l’Esquerda is placed in the inlands of Catalonia, in the town of Roda de Ter, county of Osona, 70 Km north from Barcelona. -
Reconquista and convivencia: Post-conquest Valencia during the Reign of Jaime I, el Conquistador: Interaction between Christians and Muslims (1238-1276)
Posted on February 5, 2012 | No CommentsThis study will focus on just one aspect of the transition from Muslim kingdom to medieval Christian state. In 1238, Ciudad de Valencia, the most important urban center in the Muslim kingdom of Valencia would fall to Jaime I, el conquistador, king of Christian Aragon and Catalonia, opening up a vast region to Christian influence. -
The Kingdom of León-Castilla under King Alfonso VI, 1065-1109
Posted on January 16, 2012 | No CommentsThe reign of Alfonso VI was also to be the setting within which León-Castilla joined in the emergence of a new western Europe and itself also assimilated the new norms and structures that were being erected everywhere there. -
Sales, swindles and sanctions: Bishop Salla of Urgell and the counts of Catalonia
Posted on December 19, 2011 | No CommentsSalla moved in a world in which churchmen and lay magnates could be hard to distinguish. They did not just share families, and sometimes offices, but outlooks... -
Greeks in Early Medieval Barcelona?
Posted on December 18, 2011 | No CommentsThe aim of this article is to draw attention to a group of persenal names which occurs almost exclusively in the city of Barcelona in tilese decades around the year 1000, which may throw some additional llght on the range of externa1 cgntacts. The name in question is that of Greco. -
The Spanish Touch – Barcelona and Catalonia’s Medieval Treasures
Posted on September 27, 2011 | No CommentsBy Eric Hersey Spain is one of those overlooked countries when it comes to historical and cultural tourism. This is a reflection of years of viewing Spain as a sort... -
The Bad Behaviour of Friars and Women in Medieval Catalan fabliaux and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
Posted on September 24, 2011 | No CommentsThe Bad Behaviour of Friars and Women in Medieval Catalan fabliaux and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales By Jerónimo Méndez Skepsi, Vol.3:1 (2010) Abstract: Medieval Catalan narrative works or fabliaux contain many... -
Estimation of extreme flash flood evolution in Barcelona County from 1351 to 2005
Posted on September 1, 2011 | No CommentsEstimation of extreme flash flood evolution in Barcelona County from 1351 to 2005 By A. Barrera, M. C. Llasat, and M. Barriendos Natural Hazards and Earth System Science, Vol. 6... -
From a Master to a Laywoman: A Feminine Manual of Self-Help
Posted on August 28, 2011 | No CommentsFrom a Master to a Laywoman: A Feminine Manual of Self-Help By Montserrat Cabre Dynamis : Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque. Historiam Illustrandam, Vol.20 (2000) Abstract: This article analyzes master... -
A clash of cultures: the legal difficulties of Bernat Metge (1396-1398) in a wider social context
Posted on August 11, 2011 | No CommentsA clash of cultures: the legal difficulties of Bernat Metge (1396-1398) in a wider social context Kagay, Donald J. (Albany State University) Paper given at the International Congress on Medieval... -
The National Cost of Territorial Defense and Treason in Late Medieval Catalonia
Posted on August 11, 2011 | No CommentsThe National Cost of Territorial Defense and Treason in Late Medieval Catalonia Kagay, Donald J. Albany State University Working Paper (2010) Abstract Long before the international wars of the late... -
Currency Change in Pre-millennial Catalonia: Coinage, Counts and Economics
Posted on August 5, 2011 | No CommentsCurrency Change in Pre-millennial Catalonia: Coinage, Counts and Economics Jarrett, Jonathan Numismatic Chronicle, No.169 (2009) Abstract Barcelona in the late tenth century was on the verge of becoming a commercial as... -
Castle of Intellect, Castle of Force: The Worlds of Alfonso the Learned and James the Conqueror
Posted on August 4, 2011 | No CommentsCastle of Intellect, Castle of Force: The Worlds of Alfonso the Learned and James the Conqueror BURNS, S.J., ROBERT I. THE LIBRARY OF IBERIAN RESOURCES ONLINE The Worlds of Alfonso... -
La guerra en cors amb els països musulmans occidentals en els primers
Posted on August 4, 2011 | No CommentsLa guerra en cors amb els països musulmans occidentals en els primers anys del regnat de Jaume II (1291-1309) FERRER I MALLOL, MARIA TERESAInstitució Milà i Fontanals CSIC, Barcelona ANUARIO... -
The 1448 earthquake in Catalonia. Some effects and local reactions
Posted on August 3, 2011 | No CommentsThe 1448 earthquake in Catalonia. Some effects and local reactions By Roser Salicrù i Lluch Annals of Geophysics, Vol.38 No.5-6 (1995) Abstract: The May 1448 earthquake, the last destructive one... -
Priestly Marriage: The Tradition of Clerical Concubinage in the Spanish Church
Posted on August 2, 2011 | No CommentsPriestly Marriage: The Tradition of Clerical Concubinage in the Spanish Church By Michelle Armstrong-Partida Viator, Vol.40:2 (2009) Abstract: The image of priests as family men is contrary to the one... -
Instructing the Court: Raimon Vidal’s Pedagogy for the Courtly Joglar
Posted on August 2, 2011 | No CommentsInstructing the Court: Raimon Vidal’s Pedagogy for the Courtly Joglar By Valerie Michelle Wilhite Courtly Arts and the Arts of Courtliness, ed. Christopher Kleinhenz and Keith Busby (Cambridge: DS Brewer,... -
Judaeo-Catalan: in search of a mediaeval dialect that never was
Posted on August 1, 2011 | No CommentsJudaeo-Catalan: in search of a mediaeval dialect that never was Feliu, Francesc and Ferrer, Joan Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1, March (2011) Abstract The idea that there once existed... -
The Turks with the Grand Catalan Company, 1305-1312
Posted on July 31, 2011 | No CommentsThe campaigns of a band of Spanish mercenary soldiers, under the terrifying Roger de Flor, in the Byzantine lands of the early fourteenth century are fully documented by medieval and contemporary historians. -
THE WILL AND SOCIETY IN MEDIEVAL CATALONIA AND LANGUEDOC, 800-1200
Posted on July 31, 2011 | No CommentsTHE WILL AND SOCIETY IN MEDIEVAL CATALONIA AND LANGUEDOC, 800-1200 Taylor, Nathaniel Lane PhD Philosopy, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April (1995) Abstract Some three thousand men and women of Languedoc and...