Any: 2019 Núm.: 13
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The Recapitulatio: An Apocalyptic Pattern in Middle English Literature
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2019)This article examines the evolution in medieval English literature of the Recapitulatio, an organizing narrative principle often used in apocalyptic writings, starting with John’s Revelation. This structural pattern combined ... -
Hagiography and National Consciousness: The case of Sant Beuno of Wales
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2019)This article looks at ways in which the political situation in medieval Wales was reflected in the writings of native authors, and in particular in the medieval Welsh hagiography. It discusses how native Welsh saints were ... -
Between Mythopoiesis, Stereotypes and unconscious Projections. Some case studies of the Historiography on medieval Sardinia (19th-21st centuries)
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2019)This article proposes some reflections on the historiography produced in the last century and a half on medieval Sardinia, used as a case study because in the island the Middle Ages has been showered with nationalistic and ... -
The finis terrae and the Last Frontier. On La Edad Media de Chile (‘The Middle Ages of Chile’)
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2019)This essay proposes, first, a revision of the concept of frontier as concerns limen, “threshold”, going beyond the concept of limes, or boundary. It is proposed that this threshold extends chronologically beyond the 15th ... -
The importance of Ptolemy and the Almagest in the work of the translators of Arabic Science in the Middle Ages
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2019)The evolution of medieval European science goes with the discovery of Ancient Greek works, such as Aristotle’s or Ptolemy’s ones, through the numerous translations from Arabic which were particularly carried out in Peninsula ... -
Exsilium hominum ignorantia est. Honorius Augustodunensis and Knowledge in the twelfth century
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2019)During the twelfth century, Honorius Augustodunensis wrote a number of encyclopaedic works. In Imago mundi (circa 1110) he presents the system of the cosmos based on the traditional authorities of the early Middle Ages. ... -
‘The Lorn land’: A Winter’s Tale
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2019)This article attempts to extract some sense of the genuine experience of peasant life in the north in the harsh winters of this climatic zone. What did the tillers of the land do in the frigid months from November to March? ... -
Presence and Persistence of Catalan cultural Patterns in the Kingdom of Sardinia through an interdisciplinary psycho-social study of the ‘Corts’
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2019)It is presented a study in its initial phase where the comparison of the Corts, summoned for the Principality of Catalonia and the Kingdom of Sardinia during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, is combined, as a survey ... -
Assaults, murders, insults and blasphemies: Rural Violence in the farmlands of Cordoba in the Late Middle Ages
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2019)This work examines violent actions and crimes committed in the farmlands around Cordoba, in the south of the Crown of Castile, during the Late Middle Ages. The first section deals with the sources used in this study, ... -
Colored as its Creators intended: Painted maps in the 1513 edition of Ptolemy’s ‘Geography’
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2019)The article examines all of the extant hand-colored exemplars of the 1513 edition of Ptolemy’s Geography, whose maps were made by Martin Waldseemüller, in an effort to identify the coloring scheme intended by the creators ... -
New perspectives for the Dissemination of medieval History: Re-enactment in southern Europe, a view from the perspective of Didactics
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2019)Historical re-enactment has arisen in recent years as an important tool for the dissemination of mediaeval history. However, in Spain a debate has developed around its consideration as a philanthropic practice or as a ... -
Captives at the Conquest of Mallorca: September 1229-July 1232
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2019)The present article re-examines the chronicles on the conquest of Mallorca (1229-1232) in order to evaluate the role played by the taking of prisoners during military operations. The possibility of taking captive the ... -
Estate, Border and agricultural Expansion in the South of the Kingdom of Valencia. The Vilanova lineage during the first half of the 14th century
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2019)In this paper we will analyse the history of the lineage Vilanova in the kingdom of Valencia from the end of the 13th century until midway through the 14th century. We will focus on the methods used by the noblemen in the ... -
Memory, Medicine and Childhood in Middle Age
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2019)In this article we will follow the medieval childhood since the caring of the expecting mothers to the first foods, steps, movements, words and diseases of children. Medieval medical treaties play an important role throughout ... -
Primary Education in medieval Castile
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2019)In this paper we make a brief approach to the study of an initial education in Castile during the lower Middle Ages. Knowing some basic subjects like reading, writing and calculus was presented often as a professional ...