Where the Middle Ages Begin
King João II of Portugal, who reigned over the Portuguese from 1481 un- til 1495, has enjoyed a rather positive posthumous reputation in Portugal and in Portuguese historiography…In Jewish historiography, however, the ruthlessness of King João II has earned him considerable infamy.
At the time of Nicholas IV’s election in February 1288, for thirteen long years the king and kingdom of Portugal had been suffering the consequences of excommunication and interdict, as specified in ‘De regno Portugalie’, Gregory X’s ‘constitution, ordinance and provision’ of September 1275.
The lives, families and clienteles of Pelayo Gaitán and Gil Torres, the two cardinals whose actions I wish to analyse here (1213-1254), seem to be a good example of how instrumental, their ‘natio’ proved to be, in the management of
the affairs they were summoned to deal with.
It goes without saying that two topics are central to progress on all the rest, and it is to these that the present paper will address itself. First, the problem of acquisition…Secondly, the problem of administration…
How much were two women worth in 11th century Iberia? For the Vikings the price was a blanket of wolf skin, a sword, a shirt, three scarves, a cow and some salt.
Find is the oldest Jewish archaeological evidence discovered on the Iberian Peninsula
It is the end of the Roman period, however, that interests us most. What happened then is a model for the relationship between Church and state that has had an enduring and powerful influence.
The river Lima, which crosses the upper Minho region, one of the great and beautiful landscapes in Portugal, had witnessed some of the most significant moments of her life. And yet, Inês had probably been born very far away in England, in the reign of Edward III.
The fact that in late medieval times more or less changes of rulers by force increased in nearly all European kingdoms, may indeed be read as a symptom of change in kingship as well as in the basic order of lordship.
Hispanic Research Journal has released its February 2012 issue today, with a special issue entitled Negotiating Power in the Iberian Inquisitions: Courts, Crowns, and Creeds. Five articles dealing with the Spanish and Portuguese inquisitions are published in the issue, which will be freely available until mid-February.
Throop examines an Anglo-Norman account of the conquest of Lisbon in 1147, De expugnatione Lyxbonensi, to see what religious practices we see in the text, including lay piety and the implications for crusading.
Whereas women accumulated objects in direct relation with their spirituality (with the exception of Queen Catarina), men favoured the possession of religious objects as a strategy in order to reinforce political power and authority.
In the early evening of Monday 14 August 1385, between 6 and 7 p.m., a crushing defeat was inflicted by a Portuguese army on a numerically far superior and better-equipped Castilian force.
Philippa of Lancaster, queen of Portugal (1360-1415) By Manuela Santos Silva The Rituals and Rhetoric of Queenship: Medieval to Early Modern, edited by Liz Oakley-Brown and Louise J. Wilkinson (Four Courts Press, 2009) Introduction: Philippa (1360-1415), the English queen of the Portuguese, is most well known as the mother of scholarly progeny rather than for […]
Jewish History and Gentile Memory: The Expulsion of 1492 By Edward Peters Jewish History, Vol. 9 No. 1 (1995) Introduction: During the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries, the Christian kingdoms and principalities in northern Iberia extended their power southward. They acquired territory and people that, since the first quarter of the eighth century, had been […]
By tracing the diplomatic developments between Aragon and Castile during this time frame, one is struck not only by the Pere III’s attainments in double-dealing, but also by how deeply the major contenders in the Hundred Years War, France and England, were effected by the political and martial affairs of the “minor” states of Spain.
Portugal meets Italy: the Sephardic Communities of the Diaspora on Italian Soil (1496-1600) By Joseph Abraham Levi Cadernos de Estudos Sefarditas, No.5 (2005) Introduction: This study follows the itinerary of Portuguese Jews of the Diaspora to some of the then-city-states, principalities, dukedoms, and kingdoms of Italy between 1496 and 1600, or rather, from the time […]
From Islam to Christianity: Urban Changes in Medieval Portuguese Cities Trindade,Luísa Religion and Power in Europe : Conflict and Convergence (Pisa, 2007) Abstract Abstract Focusing on the Islamic urban pattern in the actual Portuguese territory, the present study underlines the confrontation with the Christian urban model in the period post- Reconquista. Emphasizing both the complexity […]
Peter of Spain lived out a long and fruitful life as a scholar known for his works on logic, as a scholar-physician who wrote widely and was sought by his contemporaries as their doctor, and as a churchman so successful that he became Pope
Crusades on the Water: A New (Integrated) View By Dana Cushing Paper given at the 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies (2011) Introduction: My paper today seeks to integrate sources from across time, cultures, and disciplines to achieve a better understanding of the Crusades, and to change our focus from land to sea. To answer Tyerman’s […]
There have been many studies on the impact of the Portuguese discoveries on Europe, and as a result, new perspectives and approaches to the subject have opened up.
Medical ‘Emplotment’ and Plotting Medicine: Health and Disease in Late Medieval Portuguese Chronicles By Iona McCleery Social History of Medicine (2011) Abstract: In recent years, historians of medicine in the Middle Ages have tried to decode narratives of health and illness in their original context, attempting to uncover the meanings they may have had for […]
Some notes on the Portuguese and Frankish pirates during the Mamluk period (872-922AH./1468-1517AD.) By Wan Kamal Mujani Journal of General Studies, Vol.8 (2007) Introduction: In Islamic history the word ‘Mamluk’ means a slave, more specifically a white slave, used in the military establishment. In the Ayyubid kingdom, the Mamluks served in the armies and later […]
Ambassadors, Explorers, and Allies: A Study of African-European Diplomatic Relationships, 1400-1600 By Andrea Felber Seligman CUREJ – College Undergraduate Research Electronic Journal (2007) Abstract: The thesis, “Ambassadors, Explorers, and Allies: a Study of African-European Diplomatic Relationships, 1400-1600,” examines the often overlooked close ties between parts of Africa and Europe in this era. While many in […]
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