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Spanish Vikings: Searching for the Norse presence in Iberia

Medievalists.net — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 14:58:05 +0000

The fearsome reputation of the Vikings has made them the subject of countless exhibitions, books and films - however, surprisingly little is known about their more southerly exploits in Spain.

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‘Forget Your People and Your Father’s House’: Teresa de Cartagena and the Converso Identity

Medievalists.net — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 16:32:46 +0000

Religion is a very important factor to take into consideration in discussions about the identity of the conversos [converts] or New Christians, an emerging group in 15th-century Castile.

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A Created Enemy: ‘Barbarians’ in spite of Religious Conversion. Visigoths and Byzantines in 6th-Century Iberia

Medievalists.net — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 02:05:25 +0000

This study approaches the concept of resistance as a tool for historical analysis during Roman Late Antiquity, especially with respect to the identity construction and the creation of physical or mental borders between Byzantines and Barbarians.

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Intellectual Cartographic Spaces: Alfonso X, the Wise and the Foundation of the Studium Generale of Seville

Medievalists.net — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 12:10:05 +0000

This dissertation, "Intellectual Cartographic Spaces: Alfonso X, the Wise and the Foundations of the Studium Generale of Seville," I reevaluate Spain's medieval history, specifically focusing on the role of Alfonso X and his court in the development of institutions of higher education in thirteenth-century Andalusia.

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Petrus Hispanus (circa 1215-1277) and ‘The Treasury of the Poor’

Medievalists.net — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 11:26:37 +0000

The identity of Petrus Hispanus is a matter of some controversy. Part of the problem is centred on the fact that 'Hispanus' covers the general region of the Iberian Peninsula, referred to in medieval times as 'las Españas' (the Spains), incorporating both present day Spain and Portgual.

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Time, space and power in later medieval Bristol

Medievalists.net — Mon, 26 May 2014 11:51:53 +0000

With a population of almost 10,000, Bristol was later medieval England’s second or third biggest urban place, and the realm’s second port after London. While not particularly large or wealthy in comparison with the great cities of northern Italy, Flanders or the Rhineland, it was a metropolis in the context of the British Isles.

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10th century find points to medieval sea routes around Ibiza

Medievalists.net — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 18:40:42 +0000

A bronze candelabra discovered by a diver in Ibiza in the 1970s is offering clues to the maritime history of this region.

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Writing the Antithesis of María of Aragón: Alvaro de Luna’s Rendering of Giovanni Boccaccio’s De mulieribus claris

Medievalists.net — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 19:00:32 +0000

Of the many works that form the canon of the debate on women in the fifteenth century, particularly in the Iberian Peninsula, there is a text that often omitted. This lesser known text was written by one of the most notorious figures in Spanish history: don Alvaro de Luna.

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Christian Iberia: A Society Religiously Organized for War

Medievalists.net — Sat, 15 Feb 2014 13:32:57 +0000

Reconquista society in medieval Christian Spain is all too often considered through only economic and martial eyes. In this study of the prevelant cult of Santiago de Compostela (or St. James the Greater) I will demonstrate how medieval society meshed both war and religion.

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Men Who Talk about Love in Late Medieval Spain: Hugo de Urriés and Egalitarian Married Life

Medievalists.net — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 00:05:04 +0000

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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