Among the activities of doctors in the courts, one in particular stood out: the examination of wounds.
Expert examinations of wounds in the criminal court or justice in Cocentaina (Kingdom of Valencia) during the Late Middle Ages
November 4, 2015 By
Beyond the Border. The aristocratic mobility between the kingdoms of Portugal and León (1157- 1230)
October 25, 2014 By
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.
El Cid, Cluny and the Medieval Spanish Reconquista
January 14, 2014 By
Rodrigo Díaz, better known by his title El Cid, has traditionally been portrayed as one of the great heroes of Spanish history, perhaps the perhaps the Spanish national hero par excellence.
Commons in the late medieval Crown of Aragon: Regulation, uses and conflicts, 13th-15th centuries
December 21, 2013 By
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.
Managing the Commons: The role of the elites in the uses of common lands in the Midlands of the kingdom of Valencia during the Middle Ages
December 21, 2013 By
In a recent paper, Danie Curtis has given a framework for classifying preindustrial societies in accordance with four variables, these are, the property, the power, the market of basic products and the modes of production.
The Finest Castle in the World
October 26, 2012 By
Robert I. Burns, S.J., and Paul E. Chevedden describe how a much-besieged citadel became the focus for Christian-Muslim co-existence in medieval Spain.
The Regulations of James I concerning the Jewish Moneylenders: a Preliminary Report
October 15, 2012 By
This article enumerates the constitutions and statutes dictated by James I regarding the usurers, and the usurers of the Jews, between 1228 and 1251, from shortly before to shortly after the conquest of the kingdoms of Majorca and Valencia.
King Pedro IV of Aragon, royal propaganda and the tradition of royal speechwriting
August 15, 2012 By
In the archives of the Crown of Aragon in Barcelona is preserved the autograph manuscript of a speech against the rebellion of the Judge of Arborea in Sardinia made by King Pedro IV of Aragon to open the corts, probably that held in Sant Mateu, Valencia in 1369.
The continuity of Roman water supply systems in post-Roman Spain: the case of Valentia, a reliable example?
February 12, 2012 By
This paper will thus be structured in several sections. First it will be necessary to approach the topic of Roman water supply systems as a whole, their direct relationship with urbanism and city-dwellers, and how these monuments were a clear indicator of Romanitas, even in the post-Roman period.
Reconquista and convivencia: Post-conquest Valencia during the Reign of Jaime I, el Conquistador: Interaction between Christians and Muslims (1238-1276)
February 5, 2012 By
This study will focus on just one aspect of the transition from Muslim kingdom to medieval Christian state. In 1238, Ciudad de Valencia, the most important urban center in the Muslim kingdom of Valencia would fall to Jaime I, el conquistador, king of Christian Aragon and Catalonia, opening up a vast region to Christian influence.
The Poet and the Spae-Wife: An Attempt to Reconstruct Al-Ghazal’s Embassy to the Vikings
November 20, 2011 By
Before Dozy’s work,only excerpts from ibn-Dihya in incomplete shape had been known from the writings of the seventeenth-century Maghribi man of letters, al-Maqqari…
When pregnancy gets you out of a bad relationship – female slaves in medieval Spain
August 31, 2011 By
Debra Blumenthal examines 33 cases found in the archives of the Spanish city between 1425 and 1520 where female slaves sued to get their freedom on the basis that they bore the children of their male masters.
A clash of cultures: the legal difficulties of Bernat Metge (1396-1398) in a wider social context
August 11, 2011 By
A clash of cultures: the legal difficulties of Bernat Metge (1396-1398) in a wider social context Kagay, Donald J. (Albany State University) Paper given at the International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2002) Abstract Bad government in all its many forms has held the attention of many philosophical schools through the ages. Disaster, Montesquieu […]
Battle-seeking commanders in the later Middle Ages: Phases of Generalship in the War of the Two Pedros
August 11, 2011 By
Thanks to the influence of the imperial military writer, Vegetius, it has long been understood that in the Middle Ages defense operations were much preferred to those of an offensive nature.
Currency Change in Pre-millennial Catalonia: Coinage, Counts and Economics
August 5, 2011 By
Currency Change in Pre-millennial Catalonia: Coinage, Counts and Economics Jarrett, Jonathan Numismatic Chronicle, No.169 (2009) Abstract Barcelona in the late tenth century was on the verge of becoming a commercial as well as a political capital. The wealth of the four counties that its ruler, Count-Marquis Borrell II (945–93), controlled had been growing throughout his reign. […]
The war against Islam and the Muslims at home: the Mudejar predicament in the Kingdom of Valencia during the reign of Fernando «El Católico»
August 3, 2011 By
The war against Islam and the Muslims at home: the Mudejar predicament in the Kingdom of Valencia during the reign of Fernando «El Católico» Meyerson, Mark D. Sharq Al-Andalus, No.3 (1986) Abstract Fernando’s ¡nternal policy of fostering the communities of Muslims, or Mudejars, in the territories of his own Crown of Aragón seems at odds […]
From Islam to Christianity: Urban Changes in Medieval Portuguese Cities
August 2, 2011 By
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 […]
Genoese trade networks in the southern Iberian peninsula: trade, transmission of technical knowledge and economic interactions
August 1, 2011 By
Genoese trade networks in the southern Iberian peninsula: trade, transmission of technical knowledgeand economic interactions Porras, Alberto Garcıa and Garcıa, Adela Fabregas (Departamento de Historia Medieval y Ciencias y Te ́cnicas Historiogra ́ficas, Universidad de Granada, Spain) Mediterranean Historical Review, Vol. 25, No. 1, June (2010) Abstract This paper presents the results of a research project undertaken at the […]
An Embarrassing Legacy and a Booty of Luxury: Christian Attitudes towards Islamic Art and Architecture in the Medieval Kingdom of Valencia
April 29, 2011 By
An Embarrassing Legacy and a Booty of Luxury: Christian Attitudes towards Islamic Art and Architecture in the Medieval Kingdom of Valencia By Amadeo Serra Desfilis Global Encounters European Identities, edited by Mary N. Harris with Anna Agnarsdóttir and Csaba Lévai (Pisa University Press, 2010) Abstract: This chapter examines the relationship between Islam and Christianity in […]
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