Al-MasāqPub Date : 2024-05-21DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2024.2346065
Aliya Abdukadir Ali
{"title":"Networks of Power in al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf al-Thaqafī’s Governorship Over Irāq","authors":"Aliya Abdukadir Ali","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2024.2346065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2024.2346065","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":112464,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masāq","volume":"77 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141116743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Al-MasāqPub Date : 2024-04-24DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2024.2342204
Figen Kıvılcım Çorakbaş, Miray Gür, İmran Satış Atar, M. G. Çelik, İlayda Maşat
{"title":"An “Earthly” Manifestation of Power: The Architectural and Urban Contexts of Iznik Tiles Produced under the Patronage of the Ottoman Palace","authors":"Figen Kıvılcım Çorakbaş, Miray Gür, İmran Satış Atar, M. G. Çelik, İlayda Maşat","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2024.2342204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2024.2342204","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":112464,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masāq","volume":"7 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140665075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Al-MasāqPub Date : 2024-04-24DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2024.2342205
Thomas Brosset
{"title":"The First Crusade and the Failure of Kerbogha’s Campaign from Mosul to Antioch (March–June 1098): A Re-evaluation","authors":"Thomas Brosset","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2024.2342205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2024.2342205","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":112464,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masāq","volume":"11 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140661798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Al-MasāqPub Date : 2024-03-29DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2024.2323894
Rafael Blanco-Guzmán, Jesús Atenciano-Crespillo
{"title":"Urban Sanitation in al-Andalus: The Case of Qurṭuba (Tenth to Thirteenth Century)","authors":"Rafael Blanco-Guzmán, Jesús Atenciano-Crespillo","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2024.2323894","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2024.2323894","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":112464,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masāq","volume":"63 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140365212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Al-MasāqPub Date : 2023-07-14DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2023.2231323
Nerea Fernández Cadenas
{"title":"Pastoralism and Peasant Accounting in Post-Roman Times: The Numerical Slates of the Sistema Central","authors":"Nerea Fernández Cadenas","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2023.2231323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2023.2231323","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Numerical slates that appear in certain areas of the Iberian Peninsula in the post-Roman period have aroused considerable academic interest. Yet there is minimal agreement concerning the function of this accounting system. Various explanations have been proposed, from tolls related to cattle transit to fiscal documents, with scholars who focus on their elite origins. The present study addresses this issue by undertaking a regional analysis of numerical slates found in the Sistema Central. Since the numerical slates have been understood as a tool of “vertical” control related to taxation, it has been suggested that they were used exclusively by elites, an interpretation that downplays the possibility that peasant communities developed accounting systems'. This study compares archaeological evidence with written sources from the sixth and seventh centuries, arguing that peasant communities could have used numerical slates for some non-administrative purposes to suit their daily needs.","PeriodicalId":112464,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masāq","volume":"65 Suppl 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115778249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Al-MasāqPub Date : 2023-06-24DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2023.2222023
S. Prata, Catarina Tente
{"title":"The Early Medieval Peasant Economy: An Analysis of Archaeological Data from Central Portugal","authors":"S. Prata, Catarina Tente","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2023.2222023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2023.2222023","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article presents and compares direct and indirect markers of economic and social strategies of peasant communities from two territories in central Portugal. Over the last fifteen years, several archaeological research projects have revealed new data on the settlements and economic strategies of peasant communities between the fifth and the eleventh centuries. These new data revealed much about the daily lives of such communities, the products consumed and their economic activities. Archaeological markers of peasant economic strategies can be approached through direct evidence: remains of productive structures, tools, produce, and material culture. Likewise, indirect markers, such as occupation patterns and settlement layout, help shed light on shifting priorities and alterations in land use. To adequately frame these peasant communities in relation to broader economic scales, it is also necessary to consider the possible relationships between rural settlements and contemporary administrative, political, and religious centres.","PeriodicalId":112464,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masāq","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131418122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Al-MasāqPub Date : 2023-06-04DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2023.2214873
Merle Eisenberg, J. Wood
{"title":"The Business of Bishops: The Ecclesiastical Economy of Visigothic Iberia","authors":"Merle Eisenberg, J. Wood","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2023.2214873","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2023.2214873","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Visigothic Iberia experienced significant economic transformations from the sixth through the early eighth centuries, during which churches played an increasing ideological and material role. This article investigates the role of churches as key landholders in Visigothic Iberia, with a focus on how their growing wealth was managed. It explores three aspects of the intertwined relationship between churches, the state and the economy. First, it reveals the ideological views of authors who accepted and promoted ideas concerning the correct use of a church’s wealth. Second, the article shows that churches, like secular landowners, slowly shifted from an economic system based on taxes to one based on landowning and rents. And third, it demonstrates that this shift to rent collection gave greater power to bishops, who were able to decide how to divide up revenues, which led to tensions over what was institutional church property and what was personal clerical property.","PeriodicalId":112464,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masāq","volume":"227 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115840617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Al-MasāqPub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2023.2214874
Damián Fernández
{"title":"Testators and the Visigothic State: A “from the Ground Up” Approach to Inheritance Law","authors":"Damián Fernández","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2023.2214874","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2023.2214874","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Property structures, demographic patterns and political vicissitudes encouraged testators in the Visigothic kingdom to follow a wide range of testation strategies to bequeath their property. Testation law offered the propertied classes various possibilities for fine-tuning bequests to secure their economic strategies and class reproduction in the long run. Yet in the mid-seventh century, King Chindaswinth introduced new inheritance laws that limited the power of testation for those who had descendants. While Chindaswinth’s law was intended to secure military service, it collided with the landowning classes’ economic strategies for patrimony reproduction. The law created a new discussion over inheritance practices, which eventually led to a reform in the late seventh century to restore much, though not all, of the propertied classes’ testation powers. This article therefore provides a view of the law “from the ground up” that considers class interests and their collusion and collision with state demands.","PeriodicalId":112464,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masāq","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115697668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Al-MasāqPub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2023.2211882
Daniel Osland
{"title":"The Role of Cities in the Early Medieval Economy","authors":"Daniel Osland","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2023.2211882","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2023.2211882","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This contribution explores the economic roles of cities in the early medieval economy, through the presentation of a range of archaeological datasets that can all be linked to urban production and/or consumption. The individual classes of evidence each highlight aspects of economic exchange that, when combined, help to flesh out a general model of the systems of exchange at work in post-Roman Iberia. These systems revolved around cities whose individual experiences varied according to local circumstances and whose participation in the wider trade networks also depended heavily on local conditions. As a supplement to the written sources of this period, the archaeological materials surveyed here contribute to an emerging picture of elite and non-elite economic activity in the sixth and seventh centuries. This in turn shapes a more nuanced understanding of the role played by cities in the transition from late Roman to post-Roman economic and political circumstances.","PeriodicalId":112464,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masāq","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129033105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Al-MasāqPub Date : 2023-05-23DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2023.2207161
Linda R. Gosner
{"title":"Mining for Gold in Visigothic Iberia: Archaeological Perspectives on Economy, Landscape, and Labour","authors":"Linda R. Gosner","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2023.2207161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2023.2207161","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Gold coins and luxury objects together play a prominent role in the presentation of Visigothic culture in museums as well as in discussions of the early medieval economy and political history of the Iberian Peninsula. Despite this, there is little consensus about the processes by which gold was exploited under Visigothic rule. This article assembles the disparate evidence for mining in Atlantic Iberia, where plentiful gold deposits were previously extracted on a large scale under Roman rule in the north-west and along the Tagus River. It discusses the contributions of numismatic and liturgical objects as well as the limited direct evidence for mining. It then integrates this evidence into discussions of rural settlement, arguing ultimately that mining should be seen as part of a diversified economic strategy among rural labourers, likely carried out on a small-scale basis alongside agriculture and other subsistence activities.","PeriodicalId":112464,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masāq","volume":"223 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122812841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}