Spain Archive
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In the Wake of the Treaty of Windsor: A Tale of Two Ladies
Posted on April 29, 2012 | No CommentsThe 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 Libro de la Regla Vieja of the Cathedral of Seville as a Musicological Source
Posted on April 22, 2012 | No CommentsThe significance of this regla de coro to Seville’s pre-Tridentine use prompted me to seek here a deeper understanding of the book, and especially the textual transmission of its contents, confusion over which has led, hitherto, to most of the difficulties and errors concerning its dating. -
Social alienation and political subversion: Anti-Judaism in medieval Spanish music
Posted on April 17, 2012 | No CommentsIn this thesis, the prevalence of anti-Judaism in the music of Christian Spain from the thirteenth to the end of the fifteenth century is explored. -
Deviant Women in Courtly and Popular Medieval Castilian Poetry
Posted on April 14, 2012 | No CommentsThe ideal comportment of woman in the Middle Ages is decreed by the Church and the aristocracy. However, woman is wont to rebel against the strict norms of patriarchy laid down for her. -
Raymond Lull: Medieval Theologian, Philosopher, and Missionary to Muslims
Posted on April 9, 2012 | No CommentsLull’s life and example are amazing considering the age in which he lived. -
Residential Mobility and Dental Decoration in Early Medieval Spain: Results from the Eighth Century Site of Plaza del Castillo, Pamplona
Posted on April 8, 2012 | No CommentsWhile the practice of dental decoration was virtually absent in Medieval Spain, it is common in Africa and suggests that this individual was born in Africa and brought to Spain later in life. -
The parliamentary calendar of Spanish and English assemblies in the twelfth century
Posted on April 8, 2012 | No CommentsThis analysis will concentrate on the rhythm experienced by royal assemblies from the 1150s to the 1180s, thus challenging the traditional dates for so long believed to mark the beginning of parliaments in England and the Christian kingdoms of Spain. -
“Mediterranean Falconry as a Cross-Cultural Bridge: Christian – Muslim Hunting Encounters”
Posted on April 8, 2012 | No CommentsAmong the spectacular Eastern hunting techniques which could become the object of interest and envy of the Europeans, one easily adapted to the natural conditions of Europe was undoubtedly the falconry. In fact, it became not only a great fancy of medieval and renaissance Europe, but also a kind of cross-cultural bridge across ideological gaps. -
The Comunero uprising in Castile, 1520-1521: a case study for early modern revolution
Posted on April 5, 2012 | No CommentsThis thesis argues that scholars have ignored the Comunero rebellion’s importance as an instance of early modern revolution and that this uprising anticipates the revolutionary movements of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. -
A note on the origins of syphilis
Posted on March 26, 2012 | No CommentsThe name syphilis came into common usage. It came from a Latin epic poem Syphilis, sive Morbvs Gallicvs, written by Girolamo Fracastoro or Hieronymus Fracastorius(1483–1553). In his work De contagione et contagiosis morbis, he discussed the nature and the spread of infectious diseases, foretelling the germ theory of disease. -
The Urban Structure of the Jewish Quarter of Girona
Posted on March 11, 2012 | No CommentsThe studies that have been carried out to date on the tenth and eleventh-century Jewish community are rather few, in contrast to research done on the community in the twelfth century and thereafter, where documentary and archaeological sources abound. -
The Stirrup as a Revolutionary Device
Posted on March 11, 2012 | No CommentsA German legal historian, Paul Roth, published in 1850 a work that set out the basic concept of feudalism. According to Roth, Charles Martel had combined the two existing institutions of ‘vassalage’ and ‘benefice’—that is, a vassal swore allegiance to his lord in return for which he was given some kind of benefice, usually rent-free land. -
What price a roof? Housing and the cost of living in 16th-century Toledo
Posted on March 6, 2012 | No CommentsData on housing costs and rental markets for the early modern period are notoriously scarce. We build a database of rent paid on 183 properties belonging to the Cathedral Chapter of Toledo between 1489 and 1600. -
The Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa: The Culture and Practice of Crusading in Medieval Iberia
Posted on March 1, 2012 | No CommentsThis battle was both a major Christian victory over the Almohad Empire of Morocco and its Andalusian allies, and the most successful crusade of the papacy of Innocent III. As such, it serves as an ideal case study for the practice and culture of crusading in the early thirteenth century. -
Conversion, Sex, and Segregation: Jews and Christians in Medieval Spain
Posted on February 29, 2012 | No CommentsFrom the late eleventh century to the end of the fifteenth, significant populations of Jews and Muslims lived under Christian domination in the lands we now call Spain. Their coexistence was not easy, for each of the three religious communities felt at risk, both physically and spiritually, from the others
