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Mourning and anger at the foot of the cross: Mary’s pain in thirteenth-century Castile and León Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Jessica A. Boon
The Latin Marian lament “Quis dabit” (literally “Who will give”) began circulating in thirteenth-century Castile and León at a time when devotion to the Virgin Mary was principally associated with ...
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Performing death in medieval Iberia: an introduction to the end of life Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Nuria Silleras-Fernandez
This article serves as an introduction to a discussion on cultural practices relating to death in late medieval Iberia. It contends that an intersectional approach is necessary to study this topic ...
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La muerte de la abadesa: comunidad y ritualización en el monasterio de Sant Pere de les Puel·les Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Núria Jornet-Benito, Irene Brugués Massot
The study of funerary ritual is an area that has received attention in recent decades from various disciplines and perspectives. We address this topic from the perspective of the abbesses. This foc...
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The chest of memory: the funeral rites of Maria Álvarez de Xèrica and her burial in the Convent of Santa Catarina in Barcelona Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Blanca Garí
The point of departure for this article is the small wooden chest that the Countess of Empúries, Maria Álvarez de Xèrica (c. 1310-1374), commissioned to hold the instructions for the annual commemo...
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Isabel la Católica y el hecho funerario: la soberanía femenina en clave de performatividad franciscana Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-07 María del Mar Graña Cid
Isabella I's funeral arrangements show that she sought in Observant Franciscanism the spiritual basis for expressing her political novelty. Representation and performativity, outstanding elements i...
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Splendour in life, humility in death: Queen Leonor de Lencastre (1458–1525) and the women around her Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues
Leonor de Lencastre was the wife of King João II of Portugal and the sister of his successor, Manuel I. Both she and her mother Beatriz participated in high politics and the government of the realm...
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Absent in (life and) death? Examining the tombs of Navarre’s regnant queens and the shaping of their memory Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Elena Woodacre
Navarre has long been seen as a liminal state, torn between influence and interference from its French and Iberian neighbors. The five regnant queens of Navarre exemplify this situation through the...
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The widow and the notary: death, gender, and legal culture in the Jewish and Christian communities of medieval Catalonia Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Sarah Ifft Decker
When men died in medieval Catalonia, their widows went to the notaries. This article traces the ways in which Jewish and Christian women negotiated legal culture in response to their husbands’ deat...
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Affective networks across the divide: singlewomen, the notarial archive, and social connections in the late medieval Mediterranean Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Susan McDonough, Michelle Armstrong-Partida
Though previous scholarship has presumed singlewomen in medieval Southern Europe were nearly non-existent and had few means, notarial sources from the late medieval Mediterranean reveal not only th...
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Reform and hospital models in Castile: the case of the Fernández de Velasco family (1374–1517) Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Raúl Villagrasa-Elías
The aim of this article is to reassess the types of care initiatives offered by the Fernández de Velasco family on their manor estates in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries. Starting in the mid ...
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Reviving the forma vitae: identity, authority and material culture in the first Portuguese convents of Colettine Clarisses Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Paula Cardoso
Initiated in Burgundy in the early fifteenth century by Colette of Corbie (1381–1447), the Colettine reforms soon expanded to eastern Iberia, reaching Portugal by the end of the century. In this pa...
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Coins from the multi-stratified medieval site of Reccopolis: analysis of long-term numismatic records Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Manuel Castro-Priego, Pilar Diarte-Blasco, Lauro Olmo-Enciso
The relationship between numismatic research and archaeological stratigraphy is one of the most significant resources for defining the economic and social mechanisms of the Middle Ages. A numismati...
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The colonisation of rainfed land in al-Andalus: an unknown aspect of the eleventh-century economic expansion Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Pedro Jiménez Castillo, José Luis Simón García, José María Moreno Narganes
Since the 1980s, there have been significant advancements in the study of the development of rural Andalusi settlement linked to irrigated agriculture, both in relation to large suburban green belt...
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The “heaviest rains that man had ever seen or heard of:” interpreting a weather event in late medieval Portugal Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Iona McCleery
The fifteenth-century royal chronicler Fernão Lopes describes a weather event on 24 October 1384 in which the future King João I of Portugal (1385–1433) failed to attack a strategic castle because ...
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Crafting the image of Pelayo: identity and state-building in early medieval Asturian chronicles Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Erica Buchberger
In the late ninth century, a series of chronicles from the Christian kingdom of Asturias staked a claim on Visigothic identity, and thus ancestral legitimacy to rule in Iberia, for Asturias and its...
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Causes and socio-economic implications of the Castilian wildfire of 949 Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-20 David Peterson
According to medieval records, on 1 June 949 a devastating wildfire swept across the northern Meseta, with notable intensity in the Bureba region of northeastern Castile. This study examines the po...
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Continuity and change in medieval Iberian processional practices Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-15 David Andrés Fernández, Emma Hornby
ABSTRACT In this article, we explore the Palm Sunday palms procession in León across the Middle Ages. How might the experience of a tenth-century citizen of León compare with that of his/her descendant 400 years later? Did the palms procession still have the same devotional goals, reached in similar ways? We focus on questions of continuity and change, with the palms procession as our focus. Some processional
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Processional liturgy in the urban space of seventh-century Tarragona Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Eduardo Carrero Santamaría, Emma Hornby, Rebecca Maloy
ABSTRACT The Verona Orational, copied in Tarragona in the early eighth century, contains processional rubrics hinting at liturgical movement between churches on Carnes Tollendas Sunday at the beginning of Lent. The rubrics mention three places: Holy Jerusalem, Saint Fructuosus’s and Saint Peter’s. This essay examines the processional rubrics in tandem with the urban architecture of Visigothic Tarragona
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Old Hispanic pre-baptism initiation rites, chants and processions Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Emma Hornby, Rebecca Maloy
ABSTRACT Themes of Christian initiation permeate the Old Hispanic liturgy for the three weeks before Easter, culminating in the Easter Vigil baptisms. Previous scholars have examined the initiation prayers, readings, and sermons in detail, exploring their connections with the writings of Ildephonsus of Toledo (d. 667). In this article, we consider the initiation rituals from the perspectives of liturgical
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Al-Andalus fictionalized for television in the Arab world: (re-)viewing the historical musalsal Mulūk al-Ṭawāʾif Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Mounir Saifi
ABSTRACT The present article deals with a popular 2005 Arabic historical drama television series, or musalsal, titled Mulūk al-Ṭawāʾif (The Taifa Kings), whose events take place in eleventh-century al-Andalus during what is termed the taifa period. To deconstruct the different dramatic-historical narratives generated by this musalsal, this qualitative analysis of its thirty episodes explores both the
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Narrating religious processions in Visigothic Iberia: a sociology of saintly power Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Jamie Wood
ABSTRACT The sources for Visigothic-era Iberia include several vivid accounts of processions at which royal power was presented forcefully to the people. Narratives of the triumphs of the martyrs over their persecutors function very differently, as those who had formerly been subject to abject humiliation were turned into victorious emblems of local resistance to hegemonic imperial authority. This
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Abraham b. Isaac ha-Levi of Girona: poet and patron of the so-called Barcelona Haggadah, 1370–1393 Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Abby Kornfeld
ABSTRACT With neither a colophon nor documentation of its commission, the so-called Barcelona Haggadah (British Library, Ms. Add. 14761) is often dated around the year 1340 on the basis of its artistic style. However, the manuscript includes the name of one individual who was alive at the time of its production: the poet Abraham b. Isaac ha-Levi. This article begins with his poem before reconstructing
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Pork consumption, gastro-politics and social Islamisation in early al-Andalus (eighth to tenth centuries) Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Marcos García García
ABSTRACT This paper presents a novel perspective concerning the emergence of al-Andalus based on the study of food. This is a field of human behaviour that is highly informative in socio-cultural terms because of its links to ethno-religious identity. The aim is to demonstrate the usefulness of studying zooarchaeological evidence that provides information on the consumption of (or abstinence from)
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Singing to the tomb of Leocadia: a unique procession in the Old Hispanic rite Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Kati Ihnat
ABSTRACT The only record we have of a procession for a saint in the entire Old Hispanic tradition is a chant sung on the feast of Saint Leocadia, on the way to her tomb (ad sepulcrum). Copied in the tenth-century León Antiphoner, this chant resonates with additional references to rituals around Leocadia’s tomb which may be traceable to the Visigothic capital of Toledo, her place of burial. This article
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Wealth in stone: building activity of the viscounts of Béarn on the pilgrimage roads of the Atlantic Pyrenees (ca. 1063 – ca. 1130) Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-08 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
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Descriptive poetics and the Arte de trovar in the Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-02 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
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Correction Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-30
Published in Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies (Vol. 15, No. 1, 2023)
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From the minbar to the tabernacle: the transcultural journey of the Andalusian eucharistic doors Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-27 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
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Narrating and accounting the costs of reform in a “Chronicle of the Reform of San Salvador de Oña (1450–1465)” Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-27 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
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The cautious beginnings of Sephardi self-identification: a view from the Cairo Geniza (tenth-thirteenth centuries) Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-13 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
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Morfometría y armamento medieval: las puntas de proyectil de Las Navas de Tolosa (1212) Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-08 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
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Against lords and Parientes Mayores. Social conflict and resistance in the late medieval Basque Country Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-05 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
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Medieval Galicia beyond the Camiño Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-12 Simon R. Doubleday, Henrique Monteagudo
ABSTRACT With the exception of the Camiño and the lyric production of the thirteenth century, Galicia has sometimes been marginalized in international scholarship on medieval Iberia. Our aim in this special issue has therefore been to recenter it, while in the process decentering the pilgrimage route to Santiago as a singular prism for approaching the region’s medieval history, prioritizing alternative
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La evolución del feudalismo en el reino de Galicia entre los siglos IX y XII: poder, sociedad y dependencia Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-12 Xosé M. Sánchez Sánchez
ABSTRACT Feudalism has been an important topic of discussion within medieval studies in recent years. This article aims to analyze the characteristics and evolution of feudalism in the kingdom of Galicia between the ninth and twelfth centuries. My research provides significant results from the study of elements of power with the society that was developing. This study describes the origins of the feudal
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The crystal codex: Iacobus, Galicia, and the dream of the archive Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-10 Francisco Prado-Vilar
ABSTRACT This essay focuses on two previously unpublished photographs of the Dream of Charlemagne, one of most famous illuminations from the twelfth-century Codex Calixtinus (Santiago Cathedral Library, MS. CF 14), which allow the reconstruction of details of its composition that seemed to have been lost. The search for these photographs goes parallel with an immersion in the archive of the Seminario
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The late medieval/early modern necropolis of Adro Vello (O Grove, Pontevedra, Spain) from sondage 1.2017: an osteoarchaeological approach to funerary practices and childhood Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-30 Elvira Mangas-Carrasco, Marta Colmenares-Prado, Adolfo Fernández-Fernández, Olalla López-Costas
ABSTRACT The study of non-adult individuals and the concept of childhood are essential for deepening our knowledge of past communities. Adro Vello (O Grove, Pontevedra) is considered one of the most representative and iconic necropolises of medieval Galicia. However, research on the human skeletal remains has so far been scarce and has not previously focused on what osteoarchaeological analyses can
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The emergence of the Galician language in administrative writing during the reign of Alfonso X (r. 1252–1284) Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-26 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
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Miro, King of the Suevi (d. 583), and ecclesiastical identities in northwestern Hispania (eleventh-twelfth centuries) Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-20 Maria Joana 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
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Viking mercenary activity in Galicia Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-09 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
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Unos poemas de Shelomoh de Piera y de Yosef ben rabí Ashtruk ha-Levi en torno al vino, el agua, y la conversión Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Arturo Prats
ABSTRACT Este artículo presenta la edición, traducción y estudio de una unidad textual formada por dos poemas escritos por el poeta Shelomoh de Piera y dos poemas en respuesta a los anteriores de Yosef ben rabí Ashtruk ha-Levi. Aparentemente estos poemas giran en torno al “mal vino” producido en 1417 en Monzón, y así han sido leídos tradicionalmente. Sin embargo, en este artículo propongo un análisis
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“If you want to pray to Mercury, wear the garments of a scribe:” kuttāb, udabāʾ, and readers of the Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm in the court of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān III Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-03 Juan Udaondo Alegre
ABSTRACT This work addresses the question of the intended audience of the Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm, the famous Andalusi treatise on magic, better known by its Latin moniker, Picatrix. I propose that a substantial portion of the Ghāya's readers were scribes, or kuttāb, in the tenth-century caliphate of Cordova. Many of these scribes were considered udabāʾ; that is, those who possessed adab, an elusive yet ubiquitous
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“A ship loaded with honey:” assessing the honey trade in the Crown of Aragon, fifteenth to sixteenth centuries Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-03 Lluís Sales i Favà
ABSTRACT Honey, a staple product in premodern societies, has been too often overlooked by historical research. The present article focuses on a moment when the honey trade was in decline in the Crown of Aragon (c. 1440-1570). After the heyday of exports to the Levant of the late fourteenth century, supply was now mostly reserved to domestic consumption. Through the analysis of different fiscal sources
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From fragments to codices: the reconstruction of copies of Carolingian homiliaries and the Homiliary of Luculentius, a case study of twenty-first-century fragmentology in Septimania and Catalonia Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2022-05-23 Matthias M. Tischler
ABSTRACT Research on manuscripts from early medieval Septimania and Catalonia has become quite sophisticated, but significant and detailed work remains to be done. The ongoing digitization of thousands of manuscript fragments, preserved especially in public, ecclesiastical, and private archives and libraries in Catalonia, will furnish a rich collection of unknown items that will allow for the reconstruction
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The “destroyer of the realm:” Castilian chronicles and the de-legitimation of Juan Pacheco (d. 1474) Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2022-05-19 Nuria Corral Sánchez
ABSTRACT During the fifteenth century, Castilian nobles were subject to criticism in chronicles and other literary texts. Titled nobles, especially those who were closest to the royal court, were particularly hard-hit by these discourses. Some of these aristocrats stand out for the intensity of the diatribes suffered, especially Juan Pacheco, Marquis of Villena, whose political influence would, to
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The magistracy of Berenguer de Cardona, Aragonese provincial master of the Temple, 1291–1307 Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-28 Alan Forey
ABSTRACT Towards the end of the thirteenth century an Aragonese provincial master’s duties were of an administrative, rather than a military, nature. There was no precise demarcation of responsibilities between the master and heads of convents, but the provincial master Berenguer de Cardona was much involved in the administration of Templar estates, seeking to dispose of unprofitable properties, creating
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Circulación y uso del grabado a fines de la Edad Media en los Reinos Hispanos Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-11 Helena Carvajal González
ABSTRACT Se analizan las vías de producción, distribución y uso de la estampa suelta en los Reinos Hispanos en la frontera entra la Edad Media y la Edad Moderna. Mediante el análisis de las fuentes documentales e iconográficas conservadas, se plantea que el grabado bajomedieval no circuló, en origen, por las mismas vías que la imprenta, como tradicionalmente se ha asumido, sino que contó con sus propios
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Chant editing and analysis program: a tool for analyzing liturgical chant Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-22 Emma Hornby, Rebecca Maloy, Paul Rouse
ABSTRACT Until recently, Old Hispanic chant was rarely subjected to close musical analysis, in part because it is preserved in unpitched notation. Although we can read the contours of the melodies—the up and down movements—they cannot be reliably transcribed into modern notation. This paper introduces the Chant Editing and Analysis Program and shows how it facilitates analysis of the repertory.
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Ruling patterns in three dimensions: materiality and the art of the digitized Iberian bible Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-10 Erika Loic
ABSTRACT While rapidly increasing numbers of online manuscript collections allow for unprecedented search capabilities and access to digital photographs, uncovering the interactions between codicology and artistic expression still requires certain traditional techniques for the evaluation of books as physical objects. Using case studies drawn from medieval Iberian bibles, this paper suggests that the
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Filling the gap: new approaches to medieval bookbinding studies Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-19 Ana Tourais, Conceição Casanova, Catarina Fernandes Barreira
ABSTRACT Recent works on medieval manuscripts often combine historic research on textual content and illuminated decoration with material studies, such as pigment characterization, but less frequently with the material structure of codices or their bookbinding features. Despite some scholars having addressed this subject, bookbinding studies continue to lag behind other book-related fields; thus comparisons
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Whose digital Middle Ages? Accessibility in digital medieval manuscript culture Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Emily C. Francomano, Heather Bamford
ABSTRACT This essay examines why online availability should not be conflated with accessibility in discussions of the digital humanities and medieval studies. Expert-oriented projects and discussions of the digital humanities in medieval Iberian studies tend to get “lost in collation.” These projects lose sight of the promises of democratization and accessibility that the digital humanities community
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Of digital surrogates and immaterial objects: the (digital) future of the Iberian manuscript in textual editing Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-07 Aengus Ward
ABSTRACT The turn to materiality as an increasingly important element of the study of the Middle Ages both emerges from and responds to a range of intellectual and epistemological trends over the last forty years or so. One field which might provide fertile ground for the centering of such questions is precisely that of digital textual editing, both because of advances in the theory of critical editing
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Narrating codex history: the case study of a psalter-hymnal from Alcobaça Monastery, Portugal Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-06 Conceição Casanova, Samuel Arrojado Rodrigues, Catarina Fernandes Barreira, Catarina Miguel, Teresa Quilhó, Ana Sofia Tourais
ABSTRACT This article provides the first in-depth study of historic content and materials used in the production of a liturgical codex from the collection of manuscripts of the Monastery of Alcobaça: the Psalter-hymnal (Lisbon, National Library, Alc. 11). To answer provenance questions and trace the manuscript’s history, a multidisciplinary team studied the entire procedure of making the codex, which
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Digital matters: early Iberian manuscripts from the Lisbon vantage point Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-06 Manuel Pedro Ferreira
ABSTRACT Manuscript surveys, digitization efforts, database building: all have been pursued in the past fifteen years at the Centre for the Study of the Sociology and Aesthetics of Music (CESEM) in Lisbon’s Universidade Nova. In so doing, the materiality of medieval and Renaissance codices has been both confronted and abstracted from. Digital tools have been used to expand the reach of past methodologies
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Intermediality in medieval Iberian manuscript cultures: methodological reflections on ongoing and future research Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-04 Elsa De Luca, Erika Loic, Alicia Miguélez Cavero
ABSTRACT This introductory article offers an in-depth discussion of the special issue’s overall theme, as well as summaries of the individual contributions and a reflection on how digital tools are reshaping research. The first section covers the recent flourishing of large-scale digitization projects along with advances in material sciences and in a range of scholarly disciplines including paleography
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Interdisciplinary exploration of medieval technical manuscripts from the Iberian Peninsula Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-02 Ricardo Córdoba de la Llave
ABSTRACT This work examines the interdisciplinary methodology currently used to study medieval technical manuscripts and recipe books from the Iberian Peninsula. The methodology is based on both formal and content analysis, including classic paleographic and codicological approaches and the use of scientific techniques on the physical medium, including parchment or paper, inks and pigments, and covers
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Crossroads and quaternions: possibilities of digital platforms for the study of miscellaneous and composite codices Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-22 Matthew J. Westerby
ABSTRACT Codex miscellanies are enigmatic witnesses to the intellectual and cultural exchanges of the Middle Ages, both within the Iberian Peninsula and across the Pyrenees. Individual texts plucked for reproduction from manuscript miscellanies are often encountered as fragments in secondary literature, isolated and compiled into subsequent gatherings of texts and images with their own respective functions
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A manuscript present: translatio, media, and mediation in early medieval hispanolatin book culture Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2021-11-04 Catherine Brown
ABSTRACT The culture of our digital age has a wide streak of nostalgia for digits of flesh, blood, and bone. A good present moment, then, for a present of manuscript. The manuscript codex was digital before we were—only, the digits that made it were flesh and blood fingers instead of zeros and ones. The illuminated codices of early medieval Latin Iberia are particularly articulate about their own status
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Housing developers in the context of construction fever in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Catalonia Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2021-09-16 Jordi Morelló Baget
ABSTRACT This article focuses on the different types of people who became housing developers in medieval Catalonia through the assignment in emphyteusis of land for building (“ad construendum domos”). As examples, the article looks at four places of different sizes and jurisdictions which are well enough documented – in some cases with a series of emphyteutic establishments – to permit a diachronic
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Templar dispatches from the battlefield: a new source for the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2021-08-19 Miguel Dolan Gómez
ABSTRACT A brief letter written by a Templar knight shortly after the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa on 16 July 1212, and preserved at the end of a manuscript of First Crusade histories, is a heretofore unrecognized source for this key Iberian battle. Though containing little new information, the letter illuminates the networks by which news of the battle was disseminated, and its inclusion alongside
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Jews and the child murder libel in the medieval Iberian Peninsula: European trends and Iberian peculiarities Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2021-09-02 Francois Soyer
ABSTRACT This article examines the history of the child murder libel – the claim that Jews abducted and murdered Christian children for religious or magical purposes – in the Iberian Peninsula before the expulsion of the Jews from the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon in 1492. After analysing the documentary evidence and the number of alleged cases from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries, this