The expansion of a European feudal monarchy during the 13th Century: the Catalan-Aragonese Crown and the consequences of the conquest of the kingdoms of Majorca and Valencia
The expansion of a European feudal monarchy during the 13th Century: the Catalan-Aragonese Crown and the consequences of the conquest of the kingdoms…
Midwives and Medical Texts: Women’s Healing Practices in the Crown of Aragón, 1300-1600
Throughout the kingdom of Aragón, women who performed healing actions were only periodically titled midwives and very rarely called doctors. They were even more infrequently licensed or counted in censuses in such a way that we can reliably estimate the number of female healers.
Medieval Projects earn grants from NEH
Two medieval projects have been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). One project will develop an interactive jousting computer…
Tolerance’s End: Religious Minorities, Philosophers, Free-Thinkers and the Rise of Fundamentalism in 12th and 13th Century Islamic Spain
Tolerance’s End: Religious Minorities, Philosophers, Free-Thinkers and the Rise of Fundamentalism in 12th and 13th Century Islamic Spain Lecture by Lourdes Maria Alvarez,…
Traveling Around the Empire: Iberian Voyages, the Sphere, and the Atlantic Origins of the Scientific Revolution
Traveling Around the Empire: Iberian Voyages, the Sphere, and the Atlantic Origins of the Scientific Revolution By Lino Camprubí Eä – Journal of…
The Decline of the Aristocracy in Eleventh and Twelfth Century Sardinia
Beginning in the eleventh century, Pisa and Genoa — both as communes and in the persons of individual Pisans and Genovese, — followed by Catalans and Aragonese, exhibited an increasing, and increasingly covetous, interest in Sardinia and (especially) its resources; and, already during the twelfth century, the island had fallen largely under continental domination.
The Chronica Maiora of Isidore of Seville: An Introduction and Translation
The Chronica Maiora of Isidore of Seville: An Introduction and Translation By Sam Koon and Jamie Wood e-Spania: Revue interdisciplinaire d’études hispaniques médiévales,…
Seville : between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, 1248-1492 : pre-Columbus commercial routes from and to Seville
The following study attempts to show how the city of this river, Seville, became an important international port between the years 1248 and 1492, well before Spain’s Golden Age and the arrival of silver from the Americas.
The myth of minority : cultural change in Valencia in the thirteenth century at the time of the conquests of James I of Aragon
The myth of minority : cultural change in Valencia in the thirteenth century at the time of the conquests of James I of…
The Water Palace : Alhambra, Generalife and Albayzin, Granada
The city of Granada in southern Spain is where the 800-year-long Muslim occupation of the Iberian peninsula finally ended. Palace construction started during…
The Origin of Spain : Monuments of Oviedo and the Kingdom of Asturias
This is San Miguel de Lillo, a small church quietly standing at the foot of a mountain. It was built in the 9th…
The Glory of Columbus: Seville Cathedral
Christopher Columbus was the greatest contributor to the Kingdom of Spain during the Great Age of Discovery of the 15th century. And Seville…