Where the Middle Ages Begin
During the reigns of Fernando II and Alfonso IX, the kingdom of León became home to several Portuguese aristocrats. Their relations with the Galician and Leonese nobility helped them create many cross-border ties and a powerful network of family-based relationships which heavily influenced the course of the main political conflicts of this period.
I have tried to show the degree of discrimination suffered by the Jewish community in these two kingdoms in the Middle Ages through a deep analysis of the legal sources, lay as much as ecclesiastical, and also through documentary collections reflecting their practical application
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.
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.
Built by the Romans to garrison to Seventh Legion, León may also have been the base of the legion’s military commander, who was sometimes fully empowered by the emperor to govern Asturias and Galicia.
The 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.
Castle 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 the Learned and James the Conqueror Princeton (1986) Abstract King alfonso and King James were born into a world of stunning change. Each was to accelerate […]
Towards Modernity and Absolute Power: Interpretation of Kingship in The Book of the Twelve Wise Men and The Seven Books of Law McLean, Benjamin Transcultural Studies: A Series in Interdisciplinary Research,Volumes 2-3 (2006-7) Abstract In Castile (Spain) of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, one finds signs of a vigorous debate on the nature and limits […]
San Isidoro exposed: the vicissitudes of research in Romanesque art Williams, John (Henry Clay Frick Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh) Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1, March (2011) Abstract Some forty years ago, by chance, the author’s campaign of recording through drawings the earliest parts of the church […]
The assemblies of Alfonso VIII of Castile: Burgos (1169) to Carrión (1188) Cerda, Jose Manuel (Comision Nacional de Investigacio ́n Cient ́ıfica y Tecnolo ́gica (CONICYT), Santiago de Chile) Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1, March (2011) Abstract The plenary courts of Alfonso VIII of Castile (1158 – 1214) have not been studied in […]
Marriage across frontiers: sexual mixing, power and identity in medieval Iberia Barton, Simon Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1, March (2011) Abstract This article explores the functions that interfaith marriages and other sexual liaisons fulfilled within the overall dynamic of Christian–Muslim relations in the medieval Iberian Peninsula. While in the aftermath of the […]
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