Any: 2022 Núm.: 16
Browse by
Recent Submissions
-
Hellenism and Models of Rhetoric in the Birth of Islamic Historiography
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2022)After an overview of the Near East and the Fertile Crescent as a liminal (border) space where cultural transgressions and exchanges take place, this study aims to show how Hellenistic influences were present in the formation ... -
From Historical Source to Identity Symbol. Julià Ribera and the Edition of the Llibre del Repartiment of Valencia (1929-1939)
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2022)The so-called Llibre del Repartiment (Book of Land Division), a record of the donations made by James I of Aragon following the conquest of the kingdom of Valencia, was already considered a fundamental historical source ... -
‘The Myth of the Primitive Aborigen’. History against Fiction around the Feudal Colonisation of the Kingdom of Valencia in the Thirteenth Century
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2022)Denial and conspiracy theorist ideas also find room in the field of history. This is what we today call pseudo-history, which is generally undertaken by people without methodological training in the historical field and ... -
A Military Assault on a Museum in Catalonia in the Twenty-First Century. Analysis of the Facts in their Context
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2022)The Crown of Aragon, made up of a sum of territories, internally cohesive and institutionally autonomous under a single sovereign and later diluted within different nation-states, has bequeathed a fragmented and dispersed ... -
The Forms of Martyrdom: Elements for the Iconographic Study of the Morocco Protomartyrs in Portugal (Thirteenth-Sixteenth Centuries)
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2022)The aim of the current article is to present the latest research endeavors dedicated to the hagiographic formulas from which the Protomartyrs of Morocco main artistic forms were conceived during the Late Middle Ages and ... -
The Castellany Computi and the Accountability of Territorial Officers in Savoy, c. 1260-1370
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2022)The present study puts forth a general framework for understanding the first hundred years of castellany accounts (computi) in Savoy. Analysing the computi’s evidence on accounting practice for clues about institutional ... -
Political Rituals of the Speaking: Blessing and Curse in the Historiography and Law of the Castilian Nobility of the Fourteenth Century (Part I)
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2022)The curse, along with its opposite, the blessing, was not a fictional element, a legend more or less original in Castilian political history. Law and historiography made this topic a key element in his discourses to end ... -
James II and his Artistic Patronage in Santes Creus: Purposes, Semantic Content and the Influence of Frederick II
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2022)This study analyses two of the great artistic projects that James II the Just (1291-1327) promoted at the Cistercian monastery of Santes Creus (Aiguamúrcia, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain) and which still stand to this day; ... -
An Approach to Fishing, Sale and Consumption of Dolphin in the Crown of Aragon (Fourteenth-Fifteenth Centuries)
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2022)This paper is the first contribution in Spanish historiography to the study of the role of dolphin in Medieval alimentary habits. It deals with the capture, regulations of trade and consumption, and recipes of Catalan haute ... -
From Kingdom to Empire. Political Legitimacy Building Strategies at the Court of Alfonso the Magnanimous
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2022)Alfonso the Magnanimous (1394-1458) became king of southern Italy in 1443, celebrating a spectacular Triumph. At his court, he gathered around himself the most important intellectuals of the time, from various places, who ... -
Medicine and Diet in Castile in the Late Fifteenth Century: the Opúsculo de cozinas, by El Licenciado Antonio (de Tornay)
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2022)This study is of the text called Opúsculo de cozinas. It was written by a French doctor, residing in Vitoria (northern Spain), and previously the doctor of the Duke of Brittany, at the request of the Duke of Alba. The ... -
Processoning with Death Beyond the Middle Ages: Influences of the Dances of Death
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2022)We consider that the late medieval dance of death was based on secular practices that were well established in the popular tradition to accompany the dead in their journey to the afterlife. It would therefore not be an ... -
Andalusian Confraternities at the End of the Middle Ages and the Origin of Penitential Processions
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2022)In the first part of this work we define Andalusian brotherhoods and expose their main characteristics. We especially study their social composition and the numerous charitable activities that they developed. Those made ... -
The King-Hamy Chart at the Huntington Library: A Historical Map Made by Battista Agnese
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2022)The anonymous manuscript world map known as the King-Hamy chart (San Marino, California, Huntington Library, HM 45) was ascribed a date of c. 1502 by one of its early owners, Ernest Hamy, in 1886, and a similar date has ... -
Seeing and Playing the Middle Ages: Problems and Limitations in the Virtual and Video-play Reconstruction of the Medieval Past
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2022)The objective of this article is to study the way in which the medieval past is represented in video games. To do this, it will study three elements: the type of source selected, the playful design and the visuality of the ...