Author: Donald J. KagayPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812215359
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The Usatges of Barcelona
Author: Donald J. KagayPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812215359
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The Etablissements de Saint Louis
Author: F. R. P. AkehurstPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812233506
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
As the earliest major monument of the customary law in the region to the south and southwest of the Ile de France, the book known as the Etablissements de Saint Louis greatly amplifies our knowledge of feudal and private law in the French kingdom. Frequently cited by legal historians, it has nonetheless remained inaccessible to readers unable to master its difficult Old French. Now, F. R. P. Akehurst presents the text's first English translation, making this vital component of the vernacular law of thirteenth century France available to a wide range of scholars. A hybrid text, the Etablissements was probably compiled by a lawyer around the year 1273. The book takes its name from its first part, a set of nine ordinances of Louis IX giving the rules of procedure for the court of the Chatelet in Paris. The second part, made up of one hundred and sixty-six short chapters, is a collection of the customary laws of the Touraine-Anjou region; the thirty-eight chapters of the third section record the laws of the Orleans region. Whereas the Touraine-Anjou material presents a broad treatment of many aspects of the law, the Orleans customary reveals a preoccupation with problems of jurisdiction in a region where the king and local authorities were in sharp competition for power.
Making Agreements in Medieval Catalonia
Author: Adam J. KostoPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139432168
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Examines the role of written agreements in eleventh- and twelfth-century Catalonia, and how they determined the social and political order. However, in addressing feudalism, the 'transformation of the year 1000', medieval literacy, and the nature of Mediterranean societies, it has wide implications for the history of medieval Europe.
The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia
Author: Paul FreedmanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521548052
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This 1991 book is an examination of Catalonian peasants in the Middle Ages integrating archival evidence with medieval theories of society.
Authority and Spectacle in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Author: Yuen-Gen LiangPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317177002
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Bringing together distinguished scholars in honor of Professor Teofilo F. Ruiz, this volume presents original and innovative research on the critical and uneasy relationship between authority and spectacle in the period from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, focusing on Spain, the Mediterranean and Latin America. Cultural scholars such as Professor Ruiz and his colleagues have challenged the notion that authority is elided with high politics, an approach that tends to be monolithic and disregards the uneven application and experience of power by elite and non-elite groups in society by highlighting the significance of spectacle. Taking such forms as ceremonies, rituals, festivals, and customs, spectacle is a medium to project and render visible power, yet it is also an ambiguous and contested setting, where participants exercise the roles of both actor and audience. Chapters in this collection consider topics such as monarchy, wealth and poverty, medieval cuisine and diet and textual and visual sources. The individual contributions in this volume collectively represent a timely re-examination of authority that brings in the insights of cultural theory, ultimately highlighting the importance of representation and projection, negotiation and ambivalence.
The Spirit of Catalonia
Author: Institut d'Estudis CatalansPublisher: Institut d'Estudis Catalans
ISBN: 8472830713
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Crusade, Heresy and Inquisition in the Lands of the Crown of Aragon
Author: Damian J. SmithPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004182896
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Damian J. Smith here provides the first full account of the combined influence of crusade, heresy and inquisition in and about the lands of the Crown of Aragon until the death of James I of Conqueror in 1276.
War, Government, and Society in the Medieval Crown of Aragon
Author: Donald J. KagayPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040249906
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The focus of this collection of articles by Donald J. Kagay is the effect of the expansion of royal government on the societies of the medieval Crown of Aragon. He shows how the extensive episodes of warfare during the 13th and 14th centuries served as a catalyst for the extension of the king's law and government across the varied topography and political landscape of eastern Spain. In the long conflicts against Spanish Islam and neighbouring Christian states, the relationships of royal to customary law, of monarchical to aristocratic power, and of Christian to Jewish and Muslim populations, all became issues that marked the transition of the medieval Crown of Aragon to the early modern states of Catalonia, Aragon and Valencia, and finally to the modern Spanish nation.
The Crisis of the Twelfth Century
Author: Thomas N. BissonPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691169764
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Medieval civilization came of age in thunderous events like the Norman Conquest and the First Crusade. Power fell into the hands of men who imposed coercive new lordships in quest of nobility. Rethinking a familiar history, Thomas Bisson explores the circumstances that impelled knights, emperors, nobles, and churchmen to infuse lordship with social purpose. Bisson traces the origins of European government to a crisis of lordship and its resolution. King John of England was only the latest and most conspicuous in a gallery of bad lords who dominated the populace instead of ruling it. Yet, it was not so much the oppressed people as their tormentors who were in crisis. The Crisis of the Twelfth Century suggests what these violent people—and the outcries they provoked—contributed to the making of governments in kingdoms, principalities, and towns.
Iberia and the Mediterranean World of the Middle Ages
Author: Larry J. SimonPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004105737
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
This series of essays, dedicated to the work and career of Father Robert I. Burns, S.J., treats the complex relationship of Spain to the Western Mediterranean and Atlantic on the eve of Spain's ascent as a world power.