Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2020.1772990
David J. Govantes-Edwards, Javier López Rider, C. Duckworth
ABSTRACT This paper examines glassmaking in medieval Iberia from the point of view of technical literature, especially recipe books and alchemical treatises, in an attempt to assess to what extent this literary genre (if it is to be defined as such) may have affected, or have been affected by, technological developments in glassmaking between the eighth and sixteenth centuries. Iberian technical literature on the making of glass is put in connection with broader European and Mediterranean trends in the transmission of technical knowledge, the nature of scribal culture and the impact caused by the dissemination of the printing press. Ultimately, the paper aims to review the relationship that exists between the authors of technical literature and contemporary workshop practice, not only taking the written word as evidence, but also using the understanding provided by other fields of research, such as the study of the chemical characterization of medieval glass.
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2020.1778764
Daniel Justo Sánchez, Iñaki Martín Viso
ABSTRACT The article focuses on analysing Dueñas, a territory located in the central Duero valley, between the tenth and twelfth centuries. A relatively extensive, although not trouble-free, documentary record allows a reconstruction of the evolution of this area in certain aspects: the presence of a castle that could be a landmark of royal power since the tenth century, and the territory’s geographic and social dimension, with special emphasis on communal spaces. The idea of a previous territory is suggested where royal control took over and created a series of political dynamics that led to the royal lordship or realengo. However, the central role of communal usage in the definition of territory and the idea of the realengo’s origin in this region are reconsidered.
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2020.1761990
Kyle Lincoln
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the engagement of the bishops of the Kingdom of Castile with the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 and the ways in which they encountered the events and legislation of the Council. It offers a new synthesis of the available data and considers the ways in which the Castilian experience of the Fourth Lateran Council can be measured against its contemporaries. By examining its discourse in contrast to local lived realities, scholarly study can better understand the ways in which conciliar acta were a point of discourse for local clerics, rather than a normative standard against which their actions would be judged.
{"title":"Riots, reluctance, and reformers: the church in the Kingdom of Castile and the IV Lateran Council","authors":"Kyle Lincoln","doi":"10.1080/17546559.2020.1761990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17546559.2020.1761990","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper investigates the engagement of the bishops of the Kingdom of Castile with the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 and the ways in which they encountered the events and legislation of the Council. It offers a new synthesis of the available data and considers the ways in which the Castilian experience of the Fourth Lateran Council can be measured against its contemporaries. By examining its discourse in contrast to local lived realities, scholarly study can better understand the ways in which conciliar acta were a point of discourse for local clerics, rather than a normative standard against which their actions would be judged.","PeriodicalId":43210,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies","volume":"12 1","pages":"230 - 247"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17546559.2020.1761990","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44613293","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}
Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2020.1764077
R. Pliego
ABSTRACT This paper revisits the minimi found in the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands and the mixed assemblages that include not only Visigothic bronzes but also other coins, especially late Roman, Byzantine and Vandal pieces. The interpretative framework of these minimi is expanded by including new geographical and chronological information. The numismatic information is contextualised with the evidence provided by ceramics. The aim is to complement both sources of information in order to reach a clearer picture of the transitional period between late antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the territory under consideration.
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2020.1761991
A. Minnema
ABSTRACT In 1266, the kingdom of Murcia lost its status as a semi-independent protectorate of Castile after the Mudejar Rebellion. This failure created two Muslim vassal states under the Banū Hūd in Murcia and the Banū Hudayr at Crevillente. As these Muslim lords continued in the service of the kings of Castile and Aragon, their records in royal registers testify to an increasing dependence on Christian squires as their administrators. The Banū Hūd and the Banū Hudayr entrusted these Christian agents to manage their affairs and interact with Christian and Muslim courts, especially in relaying sensitive information to Aragon about the Granadan frontier. Although the charters in the Cathedral of Murcia and the Archive of the Crown of Aragon surrounding the employment of these squires indicate that they received lands in Murcia for their service to these failing Muslim houses, other records reveal that the administrators served without further inducement or compensation. Furthermore, several Christian administrators performed their role in ways that allowed the small Muslim states and their lords to endure into the fourteenth century. This study of the reciprocal relationships between Muslim lord and Christian administrator demonstrates how the task of preserving power in post-conquest Murcia transcended religious boundaries.
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2019.1704043
Jonathan Wilson
ABSTRACT During summer 1189, a fleet of northern crusaders en route to the Third Crusade landed in what is today Algarve and massacred 5600 inhabitants of the Islamic town of Alvor. Mentioned only fragmentarily in contemporary sources, modern commentators have either ignored the event or passed over it as an extraneous episode, being merely one more incidence of crusader savagery. Often overlooked is that these crusaders were supported by Portuguese vessels. Considering Sancho I of Portugal, soon afterwards, with another crusader fleet, would launch a campaign to conquer the nearby Almohad regional capital, Silves, the proposition emerges that the slaughter, rather than being haphazard, formed part of a strategy. If so, viewed against the Portuguese policy of preservation of target populations, Alvor stands out as an anomaly requiring urgent explanation. Through an analysis of the De Itinere Navali, a German mariner's account of the siege of Silves, and other contemporary references, this article reveals details of Sancho I's military planning, probes aspects of the complex relationship between the Portuguese Reconquista in the latter twelfth century and the international “crusading movement,” and presents new information regarding the author of the De Itinere Navali and the origins and aptitudes of his crusader shipmates.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-14DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2020.1748680
David Peterson
ABSTRACT In this paper we explore the long-standing hypothesis that the very abundant Quintana place-names, anomalously concentrated almost exclusively in northwestern Iberia, have their origin in the Islamic conquest of 711. Alternative etymologies are considered, and their inherent problems noted. We then address the distribution of said toponyms in both Spain and Portugal, noting a strong correlation in the latter with the coordinates provided by al-Gassani and which purportedly delimit an area differentiated in terms of the post-conquest land-partition. In the light of the Portuguese correlation, we tentatively propose Sajazarra (Rioja) as a new identification for the enigmatic Sayya, the eastern coordinate provided by al-Gassani, traditionally interpreted as referring to Ejea (Zaragoza).
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2019.1705373
S. Barreiro
ABSTRACT This article discusses the cult of James the Greater in medieval Iceland, considering the documents referring to images, texts, temples dedicated to the apostle, pilgrimages to Compostella and the use of the feast of the saint as in dating documents. The main source is the collection of documents known as the Diplomatarium Islandicum, but other written sources are also taken into account. It is argued that while Jacobean devotion played a comparatively minor role in Iceland, possibly due to the weakness of its social, cultural and economic links with the Iberian Peninsula, the saint was a present figure for pre-reformation Icelanders and some individuals sought to obtain prestige and display their faith by pilgrimage to the “Land of Jakob.”
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2019.1678191
J. A. Quirós Castillo
ABSTRACT This paper uses the archaeological record to analyse the forms of social inequality that existed within early medieval rural communities. The paper takes as its case study Álava, where there is a significant density of high- resolution archaeological records, making it possible to compare the nature of the changes that took place within various peasant communities, and explore their interactions with active domain structures at the local and supralocal levels. Therefore, a bottom-up multilayer perspective has been used, based on the contrast between the logics of political economy and moral economy. Three main themes are explored: the formation of medieval villages and village communities; the hierarchisation of peasant communities; and the interaction between these communities and the networks of aristocratic power. As opposed to narratives that have analysed this period in terms of the progressive and necessary subjection of the peasantry to the power of lordship, it is concluded that local societies constituted active arenas of negotiation, counter- positioning, and experimentation in the early Middle Ages, which, although barely visible in the written documentation, generated multiple forms of dominance, and asymmetric social cooperation, and conflict.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2019.1652838
Rolando Volzone, João Luís Fontes
ABSTRACT The Portuguese Eremitical Congregation of São Paulo in Serra de Ossa was founded in 1482, combining a large number of eremitical settlements – documented since 1366, mostly in the Alentejo region – under a centralized government. In 1578, an autonomous congregation was set up, and became then affiliated with the Hungarian Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit. Their settlements were turned into monasteries, most of them only extinct due to the decree of dissolution of the religious orders in 1834. This article attempts to fill in the gaps found in the material study of the Congregation’s settlements; the authors have carried out an examination of the seventeen examples – sometimes just traces – through a literature review, an archival dataset, on-site morphological and spatial analyses, with a focus on two case studies: Santa Cruz de Rio Mourinho and Nossa Senhora da Consolação de Alferrara. This preliminary survey shows continuities in the communities’ choices of location, the strategy of occupation, the architectural morphology features. The study aims to contribute to the diffusion of information about this monastic network, and to the creation of protective policies in relation to this cultural heritage, since all these monasteries have lost their original function and values.
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