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The use of interactive and educational tools to understand romanesque Heritage: a case study in Erill La Vall (Lleida)
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2016)This paper analyses the concept of interpretation centres as an effective tool to understand heritage. At the same time, it presents the case study of the Centre del Romànic de la Vall de Boí (CRVB) in Erill la Vall ... -
The ‘Monastic Wales Project’
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2016)The religious houses of medieval Wales, along with the Norman and native Welsh castles, form an important part of the country’s medieval heritage. The Monastic Wales Project, launched in 2009, aims to explore how medieval ... -
Identity and Difference among the Toulouse Elite at the end of the Middle Ages: Discourse, epresentations and Practices
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2016)In Toulouse, in the 14th and 15th centuries, in a difficult and changing context, the urban elites, embodied by the well-known Capitoulat, actually make up a heterogeneous, mobile, and divided group. In spite of their ... -
Urban Identity in Castile in the 15th century
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2016)Identities in the urban world are mental constructs of varying degrees of complexity that are built on the structure of the social groups to which they refer. But urban identity was a complex system also constructed based ... -
Seigneurial Pressure: external Constrictions and Stimuli in the Construction of urban collective Identities in 15th century Castile
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2016)Seigneurial pressure, exerted on cities and towns and their municipal jurisdictions by the nobility, constituted one of the dominant traits of Castilian politics in the 15th century. Notwithstanding the extent and intensity ... -
‘Saben moltes coses contra molts convessos de Xàtiva e de València’. Converted Jews in the Kingdom of Valencia: Denunciation and social Betrayal in Late 15th century Xàtiva
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2016)The article analyses the mechanisms of denunciation used in the early years of operation of the Royal Inquisition court of Valencia in the late 15th century. Our study of the testimony given by a group of old Christians ... -
Is there a model of political Identity in the small Cities of Portugal in the Late Middle Ages? A preliminary theoretical approach
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2016)The concept of small cities adopted in this article corresponds to urban centres with low relevance in the Portuguese political system. To identify these territorial communities, several classification criteria are ... -
The ‘Petit Thalamus’ of Montpellier. Moving mirror of an urban political Identity
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2016)The Petit Thalamus of Montpellier contains the oldest urban chronicle ever written in a vernacular language in Western Europe and this chronicle, whose oldest versions are dating from the beginning of the 13th century, ... -
The Identity of the urban ‘Commoners’ in 13th century Flanders
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2016)This article studies the social protest of the 1280s in the main cities of the county of Flanders. The protestors were a very heterogeneous group, because wealthy tradesmen, craftsmen and middle class artisans united ... -
‘De origine civitatis’. The building of civic Identity in Italian communal Chronicles (12th-14th century) Lorenzo Tanzini
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2016)One of the most striking expressions of political identity of the Italian medieval cities is the early creation of municipal myths of origin. Most communal cities could relate themselves to ancient heroes, saints or ... -
Conspiring in Dreams: between Misdeeds and saving one’s Soul
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2016)Thietmar of Merseburg was not an example of a virtuous, pious ecclesiastic; rather, he more closely exemplified an Amtsbischof and mentally anguished sinner. In the last book of his Chronicle, he narrates a dream in which ... -
Medieval History in the Catalan Research Institutions (2003-2009)
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2016)The Catalan researchers in Medieval History during the period 2003-2009 had reached 3,393,339.77 € for research projects and published 1,249 articles, chapters and books, of which only 11.04% were written in a language ... -
Medievalism in contemporary Fantasy: a new Species of Romance
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2016)Contemporary fantasists are often inspired by the texts from and with medieval context. This paper taps into Horace Walpole’s principles revealed in the preface to The Castle of Otranto to show that the works of medieval ... -
The Gothic Novel ‘Curial e Güelfa’: an erudite Creation by Milà i Fontanals
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2016)Curial e Güelfa is not a chivalric novel written in the 15th century, but a ‘Gothic’ novel written in the 19th century by its professed discoverer, Manuel Milà i Fontanals. The text reveals a clear portrait of its author: ... -
Battle in the Medieval Iberian Peninsula: 11th to 13th century Castile-Leon. State of the art
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2016)Since the 19th century, the analysis of planning and execution of battles, tactics and strategies in Castile-Leon during the High Middle Ages had been in the hands of professional militia and was strongly influenced by ...