{"title":"La evolución del feudalismo en el reino de Galicia entre los siglos IX y XII: poder, sociedad y dependencia","authors":"Xosé M. Sánchez Sánchez","doi":"10.1080/17546559.2022.2117838","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17546559.2022.2117838","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Feudalism has been an important topic of discussion within medieval studies in recent years. This article aims to analyze the characteristics and evolution of feudalism in the kingdom of Galicia between the ninth and twelfth centuries. My research provides significant results from the study of elements of power with the society that was developing. This study describes the origins of the feudal mechanism of dependency in the ninth century, as well as the development and progressive attachment to aristocracy in the mid eleventh century. Furthermore, it investigates the construction of feudal vassalage relationships, traditionally known as institutional, particularly present from the first quarter of the twelfth century onwards.","PeriodicalId":43210,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies","volume":"14 1","pages":"371 - 398"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42917343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elvira Mangas-Carrasco, Marta Colmenares-Prado, Adolfo Fernández-Fernández, O. López‐Costas
{"title":"The late medieval/early modern necropolis of Adro Vello (O Grove, Pontevedra, Spain) from sondage 1.2017: an osteoarchaeological approach to funerary practices and childhood","authors":"Elvira Mangas-Carrasco, Marta Colmenares-Prado, Adolfo Fernández-Fernández, O. López‐Costas","doi":"10.1080/17546559.2022.2125169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17546559.2022.2125169","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The study of non-adult individuals and the concept of childhood are essential for deepening our knowledge of past communities. Adro Vello (O Grove, Pontevedra) is considered one of the most representative and iconic necropolises of medieval Galicia. However, research on the human skeletal remains has so far been scarce and has not previously focused on what osteoarchaeological analyses can reveal about lifestyle. Here we study the human skeletal remains recovered in a 2017 archaeological campaign. The results show a Minimum Number of Individuals (MNI) of fourteen – seven articulated individuals, and MNI of seven among disarticulated skeletal remains – eight of whom are non-adults (including six individuals ≤ one year). The analysis in this article revolves around the management of cemetery space, the relationship of burials with earlier and later structures, and, especially, the high presence of individuals under the age of one year in a Christian cemetery, where burial of the unbaptised would not be allowed. This demonstrates the importance of archaeological and bioarchaeological study in detecting ex norma practices and in the characterisation of childhood.","PeriodicalId":43210,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies","volume":"14 1","pages":"468 - 500"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41675049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The crystal codex: Iacobus, Galicia, and the dream of the archive","authors":"Francisco Prado-Vilar","doi":"10.1080/17546559.2022.2125168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17546559.2022.2125168","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay focuses on two previously unpublished photographs of the Dream of Charlemagne, one of most famous illuminations from the twelfth-century Codex Calixtinus (Santiago Cathedral Library, MS. CF 14), which allow the reconstruction of details of its composition that seemed to have been lost. The search for these photographs goes parallel with an immersion in the archive of the Seminario de Estudos Galegos, a research institution that was preparing the first modern edition of the Codex Calixtinus, including photographs of its illuminations, when the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936. The Seminario was closed down after the war by the Francoist regime leaving the scattered galleys of the Codex Calixtinus edition as its last ruined monument. I propose a Benjaminian pilgrimage through the archive of the Seminario, taking the Dream of Charlemagne as a “dialectical image” allowing us to meditate on the historical processes to which this illumination bears witness. The article engages with the theory and materiality of photography, the archaeology of archives, and the significance of medieval manuscripts as national emblems in the twentieth century. As a coda, it reveals the medieval model inspiring Paul Klee's Angelus Novus, turned by Walter Benjamin into an image of his “angel of history.”","PeriodicalId":43210,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies","volume":"14 1","pages":"501 - 528"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43802793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Medieval Galicia beyond the Camiño","authors":"Simon R. Doubleday, Henrique Monteagudo","doi":"10.1080/17546559.2022.2126512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17546559.2022.2126512","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT With the exception of the Camiño and the lyric production of the thirteenth century, Galicia has sometimes been marginalized in international scholarship on medieval Iberia. Our aim in this special issue has therefore been to recenter it, while in the process decentering the pilgrimage route to Santiago as a singular prism for approaching the region’s medieval history, prioritizing alternative angles on the history and culture of northwestern Iberia. The articles presented here offer an antidote to the perception of Galicia as a quintessentially traditional, almost mythically “history-free” land, suggesting instead a society that, beyond the Camiño, was often characterized in the medieval period by cultural change and exchange, by invention and innovation, and by richly varied human landscapes.","PeriodicalId":43210,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies","volume":"14 1","pages":"351 - 356"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44405138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The magistracy of Berenguer de Cardona, Aragonese provincial master of the Temple, 1291–1307","authors":"A. Forey","doi":"10.1080/17546559.2022.2066703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17546559.2022.2066703","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Towards the end of the thirteenth century an Aragonese provincial master’s duties were of an administrative, rather than a military, nature. There was no precise demarcation of responsibilities between the master and heads of convents, but the provincial master Berenguer de Cardona was much involved in the administration of Templar estates, seeking to dispose of unprofitable properties, creating an extensive lordship in northern Valencia, dealing with problems of rent arrears, and continuing the task of resettlement. Much time was also spent in defending Templar rights and privileges in disputes with the Crown, the episcopate, tenants, and others. The Order did, however, provide military service, especially in 1304, when Valencia was under threat: Berenguer displayed an aggressive attitude towards Granada. His relations with his subordinates and his superiors were marked by only minor disagreements, and for the last ten years of his magistracy he held the post of visitor in the whole Peninsula. His position also gave him a role in Aragonese politics. In 1301 he caused offence by his conduct at the Catalan Cortes, and the king unsuccessfully sought his removal from office; but for most of his magistracy his relations with Jaime II of Aragon (r. 1291–1327) were amicable.","PeriodicalId":43210,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies","volume":"14 1","pages":"234 - 256"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49124059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“A ship loaded with honey:” assessing the honey trade in the Crown of Aragon, fifteenth to sixteenth centuries","authors":"Lluís Sales i Favà","doi":"10.1080/17546559.2022.2071454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17546559.2022.2071454","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Honey, a staple product in premodern societies, has been too often overlooked by historical research. The present article focuses on a moment when the honey trade was in decline in the Crown of Aragon (c. 1440-1570). After the heyday of exports to the Levant of the late fourteenth century, supply was now mostly reserved to domestic consumption. Through the analysis of different fiscal sources from Valencia and Barcelona, this study addresses the principal supplying regions in the Crown of Aragon, the actors involved, and the means of transport in the honey market.","PeriodicalId":43210,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies","volume":"14 1","pages":"298 - 320"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42568507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“If you want to pray to Mercury, wear the garments of a scribe:” kuttāb, udabāʾ, and readers of the Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm in the court of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān III","authors":"Juan Udaondo Alegre","doi":"10.1080/17546559.2022.2075557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17546559.2022.2075557","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This work addresses the question of the intended audience of the Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm, the famous Andalusi treatise on magic, better known by its Latin moniker, Picatrix. I propose that a substantial portion of the Ghāya's readers were scribes, or kuttāb, in the tenth-century caliphate of Cordova. Many of these scribes were considered udabāʾ; that is, those who possessed adab, an elusive yet ubiquitous term in Islamic culture. The concept of adab, scribal culture, and magic traveled to al-Andalus in similar ways and at similar times, and they reached their apex in two figures: Ibn Rabbih and al-Qurṭubī. I argue that, in the Ghāya's spells and rituals, these kuttāb and udabāʾ could find not only a shortcut to acquire abilities vital to their work but also more dubious ways to promote themselves in a difficult political environment. Further, I show that sections of the Ghāya potentially allowed these officials to establish contact with the “supreme scribe,” the personified planet Mercury, who is closely related to the mythical sage Hermes Trismegistus.","PeriodicalId":43210,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies","volume":"81 ","pages":"201 - 233"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41277874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unos poemas de Shelomoh de Piera y de Yosef ben rabí Ashtruk ha-Levi en torno al vino, el agua, y la conversión","authors":"A. Prats","doi":"10.1080/17546559.2022.2076147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17546559.2022.2076147","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Este artículo presenta la edición, traducción y estudio de una unidad textual formada por dos poemas escritos por el poeta Shelomoh de Piera y dos poemas en respuesta a los anteriores de Yosef ben rabí Ashtruk ha-Levi. Aparentemente estos poemas giran en torno al “mal vino” producido en 1417 en Monzón, y así han sido leídos tradicionalmente. Sin embargo, en este artículo propongo un análisis de los poemas atendiendo a su contexto cultural en el que se muestra que el tema principal de los mismos tiene más que ver con el fenómeno de la conversión al cristianismo, un tema muy presente en los cancioneros hebreos del siglo XV.","PeriodicalId":43210,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies","volume":"14 1","pages":"257 - 275"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49371323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From fragments to codices: the reconstruction of copies of Carolingian homiliaries and the Homiliary of Luculentius, a case study of twenty-first-century fragmentology in Septimania and Catalonia","authors":"M. Tischler","doi":"10.1080/17546559.2022.2074071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17546559.2022.2074071","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Research on manuscripts from early medieval Septimania and Catalonia has become quite sophisticated, but significant and detailed work remains to be done. The ongoing digitization of thousands of manuscript fragments, preserved especially in public, ecclesiastical, and private archives and libraries in Catalonia, will furnish a rich collection of unknown items that will allow for the reconstruction of lost testimonies of the region’s religious culture from the ninth century onwards. This paper shows how modern fragmentology, based on systematic digitization and comparison of scattered pieces, enables us to rediscover and write the history of the Carolingian homiletic collections in the south-western periphery of the Carolingian empire formed by Septimania and Catalonia—both in general and in the specific case of the autochthonous Homiliary of Luculentius.","PeriodicalId":43210,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies","volume":"14 1","pages":"181 - 200"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49044151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The “destroyer of the realm:” Castilian chronicles and the de-legitimation of Juan Pacheco (d. 1474)","authors":"Nuria Corral Sánchez","doi":"10.1080/17546559.2022.2076284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17546559.2022.2076284","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT During the fifteenth century, Castilian nobles were subject to criticism in chronicles and other literary texts. Titled nobles, especially those who were closest to the royal court, were particularly hard-hit by these discourses. Some of these aristocrats stand out for the intensity of the diatribes suffered, especially Juan Pacheco, Marquis of Villena, whose political influence would, to a large extent, shape political relations in Castile in the second half of the fifteenth century. The time is ripe for a reassessment of the public image of this figure from a new perspective on medieval political discourses and criticism. The aim of this study, therefore, is to analyse the de-legitimising strategies deployed around his figure, in relation to both his political role in the kingdom at large and his local influence in various cities and regions.","PeriodicalId":43210,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies","volume":"14 1","pages":"276 - 297"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42576397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}