Author: Juan Ignacio Ruiz de la PeñaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : es
Pages : 632
Book Description
Las sociedades urbanas en la España Medieval
Author: Juan Ignacio Ruiz de la PeñaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : es
Pages : 632
Book Description
España a finales de la Edad Media. 2. Sociedad.
Author: Miguel Ángel Ladero QuesadaPublisher: Dykinson
ISBN: 8411226050
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
El volumen primero de España a finales de la Edad Media (2017) ya trató sobre algunos marcos y fundamentos del orden social como son las realidades geográficas, la población y, en especial, el sistema económico y su funcionamiento, incluyendo una aproximación a los grupos sociales que intervenían en la producción y distribución de bienes. Este segundo volumen tiene como objeto estudiar el conjunto de la estructura social, su dinámica y las relaciones que se establecen en el seno de la sociedad, en diversos ámbitos y modalidades: Iglesia, nobleza y señoríos, campesinos, ciudades y municipios, grupos marginales, judíos, mudéjares. El tiempo histórico a considerar discurre desde mediados del siglo XIII hasta comienzos del XVI y, como e el primer volumen, se ofrece una amplia guía bibliográfica clasificada por materias para dar a conocer el estado de las investigaciones y gran parte de las publicaciones especializadas.
La España medieval
Author: Emilio Mitre FernándezPublisher: Ediciones AKAL
ISBN: 9788470900945
Category : History
Languages : es
Pages : 404
Book Description
En esta obra, Emilio Mitre (Introducción a la Historia de la Edad Media Europea, publicada en esta misma colección) nos acerca al pasado histórico medieval en la Península Ibérica, a las distintas entidades político-culturales de la cristiandad que configuran un conjunto de Estados dotados de una acusada personalidad. Pero, paralelamente a la historia de esta sociedad hispano-cristiana, la de la España islámica es también la de una de las más florecientes civilizaciones del Occidente.
Authority and Spectacle in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Author: Yuen-Gen LiangPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317177010
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Bringing together distinguished scholars in honor of Professor Teofilo F. Ruiz, this volume presents original and innovative research on the critical and uneasy relationship between authority and spectacle in the period from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, focusing on Spain, the Mediterranean and Latin America. Cultural scholars such as Professor Ruiz and his colleagues have challenged the notion that authority is elided with high politics, an approach that tends to be monolithic and disregards the uneven application and experience of power by elite and non-elite groups in society by highlighting the significance of spectacle. Taking such forms as ceremonies, rituals, festivals, and customs, spectacle is a medium to project and render visible power, yet it is also an ambiguous and contested setting, where participants exercise the roles of both actor and audience. Chapters in this collection consider topics such as monarchy, wealth and poverty, medieval cuisine and diet and textual and visual sources. The individual contributions in this volume collectively represent a timely re-examination of authority that brings in the insights of cultural theory, ultimately highlighting the importance of representation and projection, negotiation and ambivalence.
Shortage and Famine in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon
Author: Adam Franklin-LyonsPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271092106
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
In the late fourteenth century, the medieval Crown of Aragon experienced a series of food crises that created conflict and led to widespread starvation. Adam Franklin-Lyons applies contemporary understandings of complex human disasters, vulnerability, and resilience to explain how these famines occurred and to describe more accurately who suffered and why. Shortage and Famine in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon details the social causes and responses to three events of varying magnitude that struck the western Mediterranean: the minor food shortage of 1372, the serious but short-lived crisis of 1384–85, and the major famine of 1374–76, the worst famine of the century in the region. Shifts in military action, international competition, and violent attempts to control trade routes created systemic panic and widespread starvation—which in turn influenced decades of economic policy, social practices, and even the course of geopolitical conflicts, such as the War of the Two Pedros and the papal schism in Italy. Providing new insights into the intersecting factors that led to famine in the fourteenth-century Mediterranean, this deeply researched, convincingly argued book presents tools and models that are broadly applicable to any historical study of vulnerabilities in the human food supply. It will be of interest to scholars of medieval Iberia and the medieval Mediterranean as well as to historians of food and of economics.
Family, Work, and Household in Late Medieval Iberia
Author: Jeff Fynn-PaulPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317599306
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Family, Work, and Household presents the social and occupational life of a late medieval Iberian town in rich, unprecedented detail. The book combines a diachronic study of two regionally prominent families—one knightly and one mercantile—with a detailed cross-sectional urban study of household and occupation. The town in question is the market town and administrative centre of Manresa in Catalonia, whose exceptional archives make such a study possible. For the diachronic studies, Fynn-Paul relied upon the fact that Manresan archives preserve scores of individual family notarial registers, and the cross-sectional study was made possible by the Liber Manifesti of 1408, a cadastral survey which details the property holdings of individual householders to an unusually thorough degree. In these pages, the economic and social strategies of many individuals, including both knights and burghers, come to light over the course of several generations. The Black Death and its aftermath play a prominent role in changing the outlook of many social actors. Other chapters detail the socioeconomic topography of the town, and examine occupational hierarchies, for such groups as rentiers, merchants, leatherworkers, cloth workers, women householders, and the poor.
The World of the Newport Medieval Ship
Author: Evan T. JonesPublisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786831449
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The Newport Medieval Ship is the most important late-medieval merchant vessel yet recovered. Built c.1450 in northern Spain, it foundered at Newport twenty years later while undergoing repairs. Since its discovery in 2002, further investigations have transformed historians’ understanding of fifteenth-century ship technology. With plans in place to make the ship the centrepiece for a permanent exhibition in Newport, this volume interprets the vessel, to enable visitors, students and researchers to understand the ship and the world from which it came. The volume contains eleven chapters, written by leading maritime archaeologists and historians. Together, they consider its significance and locate the vessel within its commercial, political and social environment.
Textual Agency: Writing Culture and Social Networks in Fifteenth-Century Spain
Author: Ana M. Gómez-BravoPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442647205
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Gómez-Bravo also explores how authorial and textual agency were competing forces in the midst of an era marked by the institution of the Inquisition, the advent of the absolutist state, the growth of cities, and the constitution of the Spanish nation.
Economía y sociedad en la España medieval
Author: Carlos de Ayala MartínezPublisher: Ediciones AKAL
ISBN: 9788470904349
Category : History
Languages : es
Pages : 460
Book Description
Esta obra es una aproximación a la realidad social y económica de la España cristiana medieval, la cual se nos presenta como un cambiante y complejo espacio en expansión. Los autores de este documentado trabajo han sido conscientes de que bajo las generalizadoras expresiones de “economía” y “sociedad” es posible abordar los temas más variados. Por eso el criterio de selección informativa ha sido estricto, y se ha articulado alrededor de tres problemas fundamentales. El primero es el que se refiere al marco territorial en el que se desenvuelve el elemento humano, la realidad paisajística resultante de la todavía débil acción transformadora del hombre. La segunda vía de estudio es la que se articula en torno al problema de la propiedad, marco que permite percibir las distintas modalidades de producción, asunto esencial para comprender la realidad económica de una época histórica. Finalmente, las relaciones sociales integran el tercer ámbito de análisis. La jerarquización social, las nociones de libertad, dependencia..., la conflictividad que nace de los inevitables intereses encontrados, son algunos de los temas que se abordan en este apartado. El trabajo incluye un amplio capítulo en el que se analizan las minorías religiosas, grupos humanos de un peso social y económico muy importante en la España medieval. La obra aporta una visión crítica a esta época de la historia de España realizada desde un enfoque novedoso que, incluyendo las aportaciones de las últimas tendencias metodológicas, contribuye a dotar a los conceptos de «sociedad» y «economía» de una personalidad propia.
Women, dowries and agency
Author: Dana Wessell LightfootPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526112442
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This book examines labouring-status women in late medieval Valencia as they negotiated the fundamentally defining experience of their lives: marriage. Through the use of notarial records and civil court cases, it argues that the socio-economic and immigrant status of these women greatly enhanced their ability to exercise agency not only in choosing a spouse and gathering dotal assets, but also in controlling this property after they wed. Although the prevailing legal code in Valencia appeared to give wives little authority over these assets, court records demonstrate that they were still able to negotiate a measure of control. In these actions, labouring-status wives exercised agency by protecting their marital goods from harm, using legal statutes to their own advantage. In looking at the experiences of labouring-status women, this monograph shifts the debate regarding women’s access to and control of property in the medieval period. Exploring a group previously unexamined by scholars, it argues that our understanding of women’s marital strategies changes, challenging the central role of blood and marital kin in these negotiations.