The 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
July 31, 2011 By
THE 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 Catalonia (southwestern France and northeastern Spain) from before the year 1200 speak to us through their testaments. This volume of testamentary evidence is unmatched in […]
A Catalan Contribution to the Converso Controversy
May 29, 2011 By
A Catalan Contribution to the Converso Controversy Aronson-Friedman, Amy Mediterranean Studies, Volume 14 (2005) Abstract THE MARGINALIZATION OF CATALAN LITERARY WORKS from the canon of Hispanic literature is the result of a tendency by many critics to disregard works written in languages other than Castilian. Jaume Roig’s Spill o Llibre de les dones is one […]
Public Activities of Catalan Jewish Women
April 19, 2011 By
Public Activities of Catalan Jewish Women By Elka Klein Medieval Encounters, Volume 12, Number 1 (2006) Abstract: Although standards of modesty, custom, and law imposed limitations on the range of public activities of Jewish women, examples from the thirteenth-century Crown of Aragon show how, by the selective reliance on male relatives, and the use of […]
Early Catalan Agricultural Writing and the Libre o regla o ensanyament de plantar o senbrar vinyes e arbres…
April 9, 2011 By
Early Catalan Agricultural Writing and the Libre o regla o ensanyament de plantar o senbrar vinyes e arbres… By Thomas M. Capuano Published Online (2009) Introduction: As Ana Moure Casas has shown, the Opus agriculturae of the 5th-century Latin writer Palladius Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus enjoyed widespread popularity in the waning years of the high Middle […]
Mediaeval cereal yields in Catalonia and England: an empirical challenge
February 22, 2011 By
Mediaeval cereal yields in Catalonia and England: an empirical challenge By Peter J. Reynolds Acta historica et archaeologica mediaevalia, No.18 (1997) Introduction: The object of this paper is to explore the nature of the cereal yields in the Mediaeval period and to provide a comparison of actual yields between a zone in north-east Spain and […]
Military orders in Osona during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
February 22, 2011 By
Military orders in Osona during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries By Paul H. Freedman Acta historica et archaeologica mediaevalia, No.3 (1982) Introduction: It is difficult to determine precisely when the military orders of crusading knights first became active in Catalonia. Unlike Castile, León or Portugal, where national orders became extremely powerful, Catalonia was dominated by […]
Another Look at the Uprising of the Townsmen of Vic (1181-1183)
February 22, 2011 By
Another Look at the Uprising of the Townsmen of Vic (1181-1183) By Paul H. Freedman Acta historica et archaeologica mediaevalia, No.20-21 (1999) Introduction: This article, an inadequate but heartfelt tribute to Manuel Riu, revisits an incident in the history of the city of Vic that I wrote about at the beginning of my academic career. […]
The “convenientiae” of the Catalan counts in the eleventh century: a diplomatic and historical analysis
February 22, 2011 By
The “convenientiae” of the Catalan counts in the eleventh century: a diplomatic and historical analysis By A.J. Kosto Acta historica et archaeologica mediaevalia, No.19 (1998) Introduction: Pierre Bonnassie’s identification of the significance of the convenientia is among rhe most important of his many contributions to out understanding of the Catalan counties in the eleventh century. […]
How to End a Crusade: Techniques for Making Peace in the Thirteenth-Century Kingdom of Valencia
March 17, 2010 By
How to End a Crusade: Techniques for Making Peace in the Thirteenth-Century Kingdom of Valencia By Robert I. Burns Military Affairs, Vol.35 (1971) Introduction: James the Conqueror, king of confederated Arago-Catalonia, waged a stubborn piecemeal crusade from 1232 to 1245 against the Islamic regions of Eastern Spain. He spent much of the next 30 years […]
Barcelona, a Society and its Law: 11th-13th Centuries
October 22, 2009 By
The legal system in Barcelona in the Lower Middle Ages – which we regard as a synthesis of rights (usages, customs, privileges, laws, and so on) and organization (municipality, universitat de prohoms, consulates, etc.) – had already attained maturity in the 13th century.
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