Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2023.2168026
Adam Mahler
ABSTRACT Critics have long evaluated the anonymous treatise on versification nestled in the Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional—often called the Arte de trovar—against the roughly contemporaneous artes poeticae composed in langue d’oc. While our understanding of the treatise undoubtedly benefits from comparative readings, I argue that its perceived deficiencies, including its sui generis approach to poetic genres, may reflect specific late medieval literary-critical considerations. By emplacing generically, socially, or sonically aberrant compositions within practices of performance, reading, and anthologization, the treatise helps legitimate the cancioneiro in which it appears and perhaps the cancioneril enterprise writ large. In the appendix, I provide the first full-length translation of the Arte de trovar into English.
长期以来，批评家们一直在评价国家图书馆(Cancioneiro da Biblioteca national)——通常被称为“诗歌艺术”(Arte de trovva)——中关于诗文的匿名论文，以反对大致同时期用语言创作的诗歌艺术。虽然我们对这篇论文的理解无疑受益于比较阅读，但我认为，它所感知到的缺陷，包括它对诗歌体裁的自成一格的方法，可能反映了中世纪晚期文学批评的具体考虑。通过将一般的、社会的或声音上的异常作品置于表演、阅读和选集的实践中，这篇论文有助于使它出现的cancioniro合法化，也许是cancioneril企业的扩张。在附录中，我提供了《特洛伊瓦的艺术》的第一个完整的英文译本。
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2023.2168721
Almudena Blasco Vallés
ABSTRACT This study examines the phenomenon of “petrification” in the Adour region of the Pyrenees in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, when the area was governed by the viscounts of Béarn. Petrification refers to the building activity undertaken and maintained in both economic and legal terms by this noble family. Here the focus is on a number of monasteries, churches, abbeys, bridges and roads which were a key factor in the improvement of the road network underpinning the pilgrimage route known as the Camino de Santiago. The main objective of their territorial strategy was to provide a means of crossing the gaves or rivers that crisscross the region from southeast to northwest, carving out the fertile valleys of Ossau, Aspe and Barétous.
{"title":"Wealth in stone: building activity of the viscounts of Béarn on the pilgrimage roads of the Atlantic Pyrenees (ca. 1063 – ca. 1130)","authors":"Almudena Blasco Vallés","doi":"10.1080/17546559.2023.2168721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17546559.2023.2168721","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study examines the phenomenon of “petrification” in the Adour region of the Pyrenees in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, when the area was governed by the viscounts of Béarn. Petrification refers to the building activity undertaken and maintained in both economic and legal terms by this noble family. Here the focus is on a number of monasteries, churches, abbeys, bridges and roads which were a key factor in the improvement of the road network underpinning the pilgrimage route known as the Camino de Santiago. The main objective of their territorial strategy was to provide a means of crossing the gaves or rivers that crisscross the region from southeast to northwest, carving out the fertile valleys of Ossau, Aspe and Barétous.","PeriodicalId":43210,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies","volume":"15 1","pages":"24 - 49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45424679","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 : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2023.2169321
Luis Rueda Galán
ABSTRACT This essay deals with a series of tabernacle doors with Islamic ornamentation and Latin eucharistic inscriptions, made in Christian Andalusi lands ca. 1300–1500, which illustrate the extent of the assimilation of the cultural heritage of al-Andalus by Iberian Christian kingdoms. The origins of this type of tabernacle door are analyzed in connection with the conversion of the Great Mosques of al-Andalus in the thirteenth century, and aspects of the doors’ ornamentation and possible symbolic dimensions are addressed. Further, the doors are compared with similar woodwork produced by interreligious contacts in other regions, emphasizing that certain transcultural phenomena had a global scope in the medieval Mediterranean.
{"title":"From the minbar to the tabernacle: the transcultural journey of the Andalusian eucharistic doors","authors":"Luis Rueda Galán","doi":"10.1080/17546559.2023.2169321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17546559.2023.2169321","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay deals with a series of tabernacle doors with Islamic ornamentation and Latin eucharistic inscriptions, made in Christian Andalusi lands ca. 1300–1500, which illustrate the extent of the assimilation of the cultural heritage of al-Andalus by Iberian Christian kingdoms. The origins of this type of tabernacle door are analyzed in connection with the conversion of the Great Mosques of al-Andalus in the thirteenth century, and aspects of the doors’ ornamentation and possible symbolic dimensions are addressed. Further, the doors are compared with similar woodwork produced by interreligious contacts in other regions, emphasizing that certain transcultural phenomena had a global scope in the medieval Mediterranean.","PeriodicalId":43210,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies","volume":"15 1","pages":"106 - 130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47461831","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 : 2022-12-27DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2022.2153262
Carlos Manuel Reglero de la Fuente
ABSTRACT The monastery of San Salvador de Oña was reformed by the priors of the monastery of San Benito de Valladolid between 1450 and 1456. The majority of the monks of Oña opposed this reform, which led to their being replaced by monks from Valladolid. In addition, the payment of papal taxes, lawsuits and building projects generated a substantial debt, which was repaid through the sale of the church’s silver ornaments and altarpieces, and as a result the monks who were expelled from Oña accused the reformers of theft. The priors of San Benito and its monks defended their actions in two texts: a document acknowledging the debt and explaining its origin, and a chronicle of the reform undertaken by the priors of San Benito which minimised their responsibility for the monastery’s mismanagement. Thus, the financial accountancy of the reform was combined with a literary commemoration of this undertaking.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-13DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2022.2153154
Moshe Yagur
ABSTRACT This article tackles the issue of Jewish Andalusi identity and the notion of Sephardi exceptionalism, promoted by several Jewish Andalusi scholars from the tenth century onwards. It does so by examining the way Jewish Iberian immigrants identified themselves, or were identified by their contemporaries, in their new locales. The basic corpus for this study is the documentary Cairo Geniza, which enables an examination of every-day experiences of these Iberian immigrants, as opposed to literary compositions which have been the main source for the study of the notion of Sephardi exceptionalism. The period examined is the late tenth through the thirteenth centuries, considered the “classical Geniza period” and equivalent to a period of major shifts in Iberian Jewry. Using digital tools and secondary literature, a database of 161 manuscripts which include identifications of Iberian immigrants was assembled. An analysis of these identifications reveals, on the one hand, a growing use of the new Hebrew identifier “Sepharadi” as a geographical and probably cultural marker. On the other hand, it frames it in a historical reality in which identification as a Sephardi was not an obvious choice with a clear cultural meaning, but rather just one out of a spectrum of possible identifiers.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-08DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2022.2152851
Yaiza Hernández-Casas, Alberto Dorado-Alejos
ABSTRACT This paper presents the results of a morphometric analysis conducted on the arrowheads from the battlefield of Las Navas de Tolosa (1212), a battle between the Almohads troops and the Iberian Christian kingdoms. It took place near Santa Elena (Jaén), in the southern Iberian Peninsula. Our objective is to bring new data on the operational chains of these iron artefacts at the beginning of the thirteenth century. The results allow us to delve into the specialisation of blacksmiths, to approach production techniques, and to quantify the process of standardisation according to the measurement systems within medieval Christian and Andalusian societies. In short, this research addresses new and relevant approaches to the field of weaponry and medieval metallurgy, transcending traditional typologies.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-05DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2022.2149832
Aintzane Sánchez, José Ramón Díaz de Durana
ABSTRACT This work aims to define the structural elements of aristocratic rule, noble lords in Álava and Parientes Mayores (heads of household) in Guipúzcoa and Biscay, over their lordships and church patronages; the fiscal and political opposition presented by hidalgos (petty nobility), peasants, ferrones (metal-industry workers) and townspeople; and the evolution of the resulting conflict over time. We also outline the discourses elaborated to legitimise lordly authority or to reject it, and those mobilised to denounce the arbitrary fiscal demands of the nobility and conditions of political exclusion. In order to illustrate this, we examine the rule of the Rojas and the Hurtado de Mendoza families over the small towns of Antoñana and Santa Cruz de Campezo, and the steadfast opposition to this rule from the towns’ residents.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2022.2109712
Irene García Losquiño
ABSTRACT The interaction of viking groups with different parts of the Iberian Peninsula was characterised in the medieval written sources as piratic, violent and feared. However, that the most visible face of viking-Iberian interaction was hostile does not mean that other forms of interaction did not occur. Like anywhere else in the viking diaspora, complex relationships of trade, exchange and collaboration also took place. In this article, I will analyse one kind of non-violent interaction: mercenary activity. In order to do so, I will review three case-studies that showcase Scandinavian mercenary services in Galicia. I will emphasise the necessity to understand Norse-Galician contact as constant and multifaceted and underline the role of opportunism in defining viking relationships with Galicia.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2022.2118347
M. Gomes, Francesco Renzi
ABSTRACT This paper seeks to reveal aspects of the process of the writing of history and the reinvention of the religious past which became crucial strategic elements in the legitimisation of some of the most important ecclesiastical institutions of medieval Iberia. Focusing on two texts, the Historia Compostellana and the Chronicon Iriense, both produced in the diocese of Santiago de Compostela, and each fundamental in defending the rights and authority of this powerful Galician see, we analyse their portrayal of Miro, king of the Suevi (r. 570–583), to whom is attributed the ecclesiastical organisation of northwestern Hispania. Both texts present this king as a central figure of Galician political and religious identity. The rewriting in medieval Compostela of Miro’s history is shown to be a key element in the disputes between that diocese and other Iberian episcopates, namely Braga, Toledo, Mondoñedo and Lugo.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2022.2123951
Henrique Monteagudo
ABSTRACT Historiographic tradition attributes to King Alfonso X the adoption of Castilian as the language of the monarchy. However, attention has rarely been drawn to the fact that during his reign, the use of Galician in notarial writing became the standard for legal documentation. Alfonso created a legal framework for royal notaries and promoted their establishment in his territories. The main hypothesis of this article is that, in line with the linguistic policy of the monarchy, this new body of notaries played a key role in the generalisation of Galician in administrative writing. That being so, the substitution of Latin by Romance in legal documentation did not reflect a desire for communicative efficiency so much as a policy of secularisation that challenged the ecclesiastical monopoly of written culture and sought the autonomy of the state from the church.
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