Pub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2020.1805120
J. Jasperse
ABSTRACT The present article demonstrates that material culture offers medievalists an often untapped primary source, in this case the seals of Matilda of Flanders (d. 1218). Born Teresa of Portugal, she was the daughter of King Afonso Henriques of Portugal and Queen Mafalda of Savoy; as wife, then widow of Count Philip of Flanders, Matilda issued two double-sided seal types. By foregrounding the material traces connected with the countess, an unexpected picture unfolds of a self-conscious royal heiress and staunch promotor of her natal family. Here it is shown that Matilda's seals share signifying elements with those of her royal siblings Sancho and Urraca, arguing that her seal was part of an explicit statement of familial connections. This visual declaration reveals a previously unrecognized chapter of the countess’ history, in which she asserted her place within the Portuguese dynasty from her new lands in the County of Flanders.
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Pub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2020.1812691
Vincent Debiais, José-Luis Senra
ABSTRACT In the present article, we undertake the first in-depth analysis and contextualization of the funerary inscription from the tomb lid of Countess Teresa de Carrión (d. 1093), designed by the monks at the Cluniac priory of San Zoilo in Carrión de los Condes (Palencia). Focusing on the figure of a carismatic woman from the central Middle Ages, we investigate the context of the elite kin network in Castilla-León to which she pertained, as well as the deliberate construction of her memory in later centuries. The memorial discourse was created through a complex web of documentation, both visual and written, which developed in differing patterns for a range of purposes. Their ultimate common goal was to establish an attractive – and lucrative – history of the countess as monastic patron during a time when the institution was falling into progressive decadence. In unexpected results, the material evidence of the inscription opens a new window onto a little-studied moment in the history of the monastery through the deliberate elevation of a past female patron.
在本文中，我们首次对特丽莎伯爵夫人Carrión(公元1093年)墓盖上的陪葬铭文进行了深入分析和语境化，该墓盖是由位于Carrión de los Condes (Palencia)的San Zoilo的Cluniac修道院的僧侣设计的。我们以中世纪一位富有魅力的女性为中心，研究了Castilla-León中她所处的精英亲属网络的背景，以及后来几个世纪对她的记忆的刻意建构。纪念话语是通过一个复杂的文件网络创建的，包括视觉和书面文件，这些文件以不同的模式发展，用于一系列目的。他们最终的共同目标是，在修道院逐渐陷入颓废的时候，创造一段伯爵夫人作为修道院赞助人的诱人且有利可图的历史。意想不到的结果是，碑文的物质证据为修道院历史上一个鲜为人知的时刻打开了一扇新的窗口，通过刻意提升一位过去的女性赞助人。
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Pub Date : 2020-08-31DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2020.1798015
S. Pérez-González, José Antonio Mingorance Ruiz
ABSTRACT Jerez de la Frontera and its wines enjoy an unquestionable reputation. The expansion of wine production and consumption in the Early Modern period was made possible by developments that began at the end of the Middle Ages, on which this paper focuses. Our aim is to analyze two products of the vine, raisins and wine, which had distinctive identifying characteristics in the period studied. It was in the fifteenth century that Jerez de la Frontera, according to its socioeconomic situation, became the second most important city of the Kingdom of Seville, due in part to the production of wine and the thriving community of merchants, as well as the activities associated with its pier (called El Portal) and the port at Bahía de Cádiz. The present study centers on the period from the fifteenth century through the turn of the sixteenth to examine the place of raisins and wines from Jerez in commercial circuits along the Mediterranean Sea and the north–south routes of the Atlantic Ocean.
赫雷斯·德拉弗朗特拉及其葡萄酒享有无可争议的声誉。葡萄酒生产和消费在近代早期的扩张是由于中世纪末期开始的发展而成为可能的，本文将重点介绍这一点。我们的目的是分析葡萄树的两种产品，葡萄干和葡萄酒，它们在研究时期具有鲜明的识别特征。在15世纪，根据其社会经济状况，赫雷斯德拉弗朗特拉成为塞维利亚王国第二大重要城市，部分原因是葡萄酒的生产和繁荣的商人社区，以及与码头(称为El Portal)和Bahía de Cádiz港口相关的活动。本研究以15世纪到16世纪之交的时期为中心，考察赫雷斯的葡萄干和葡萄酒在地中海沿岸和大西洋南北航线的商业线路中的地位。
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Pub Date : 2020-08-12DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2020.1802654
Paula Cardoso
ABSTRACT The Observant reforms marked the religious landscape of late medieval Europe, changing the Church as a whole and initiating a wave of reforms and the foundation of convents in all the major religious orders. Recent studies devoted to the subject have revealed the pluralities of the movement in each territory and congregation and alerted scholars to the necessity of studies that go beyond the official accounts of reform produced by the Observants within a propagandistic agenda. Centring on the spread of Observance in the Dominican province of Portugal—for which the main reference remains early modern chronicles, based on the accounts of the reformers—this paper seeks to bring new insights to the dynamics and agents behind the spread of this reform among the Portuguese Dominicans, in particular the female branch of the order, in which proliferation was deeply connected with the reformative politics of the time.
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Pub Date : 2020-08-05DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2020.1790628
Richard Ibarra
ABSTRACT The hybridity of foreign merchants has received much scholarly attention, though the strategies undergirding the integration of Italians in Castile have been little explored. A selection of wills drawn up for Italian merchants living in Seville in the early sixteenth century gives some insight into these strategies. Five case studies, indicative of general trends presented by these merchants’ identification in wills and their burial preferences, demonstrate some of the ways they retained an Italian identity while cultivating Sevillian and Castilian connections.
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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.
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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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