El feudalisme comptat i debatut
El feudalisme comptat i debatut

Author: Miquel Barceló

Publisher: Universitat de València

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 586

ISBN-13: 9788437056715

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Fa a penes trenta o quaranta anys el feudalisme català encara era percebut com una variant marginal i imperfecta d’un feudalisme clàssic que es circumscrivia a l’espai comprès entre el Loira i el Rin. El col·loqui de Girona de 1985, organitzat sota el doble impuls renovador de les obres de Pierre Bonnassie i Pierre Guichard, capgirà radicalment aquesta visió, en valorar els trets originals del feudalisme català, de la seua formació i expansió, i en introduir paral·lelament l’estudi d’aquelles societats d’al-Andalus que a partir del segle XII van ser objecte de conquesta per part dels feudals catalans. Disset anys després, aquest nou col·loqui celebrat a Barcelona aprofundeix en moltes d’aquestes orientacions i línies de recerca, com ara l’examen dels processos de conquesta i colonització dins un procés més general d’expansió del feudalisme i el necessari recurs a l’arqueologia, imprescindible per a mesurar les grandàries, densitats i sentit dels establiments pagesos, tant feudals com andalusins. També s’hi examinen amb nova llum les relacions entre senyors i pagesos, atenent i integrant tant l’estructura de classes com les transformacions produïdes per les variables econòmiques, els canvis en les magnituds i la composició del producte agrari, el procés de diferenciació interna de la pagesia i l’emergència de nous grups socials.

From Al-Andalus to the Americas (13th-17th Centuries)
From Al-Andalus to the Americas (13th-17th Centuries)

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-06-12

Total Pages: 485

ISBN-13: 900436577X

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From Al-Andalus to the Americas (13th-17th Centuries). Destruction and Construcion of Societies offers a multi-perspective view of the filiation of different colonial and settler colonial experiences, from the Medieval Iberian Peninsula to the early Modern Americas. All the articles in the volume refer the reader to colonial orders that extended over time, that substantially reduced indigenous populations, that imposed new productive strategies and created new social hierarchies. The ideological background and how conquests were organised; the treatment given to the conquered lands and people; the political organisations, and the old and new agricultural systems are issues discussed in this volume. Contributors are David Abulafia, Manuel Ardit, Antonio Espino, Adela Fábregas, Josep M. Fradera, Enric Guinot, Helena Kirchner, Antonio Malpica, Virgilio Martínez-Enamorado, Carmen Mena, António Mendes, Félix Retamero, Inge Schjellerup, Josep Torró, and Antoni Virgili.

Hidráulica agraria y sociedad feudal
Hidráulica agraria y sociedad feudal

Author: Josep Torró Abad

Publisher: Universitat de València

Published: 2015-05-16

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 8437089484

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L'estudi de les pràctiques d'hidràulica agrària desenvolupades durant l'Edat Mitjana ha mostrat que no ens trobem davant fenòmens purament «etnogràfics» o solucions universals sense valor històric. En aquesta obra col·lectiva s'ofereixen, d'una banda, treballs representatius de regions on s'inicia l'expansió agrària en el marc de la cristal·lització del sistema feudal (Catalunya Vella, Llenguadoc, Borgonya) i, per un altre, diversos estudis sobre les transformacions produïdes en territori conquistats durant els segles XII (regió de Terol, vall del Segre), XIII (regne de València) i finals del XV (regne de Granada). A través de tots ells s'examina la diversitat de mitjans geogràfics (humits i àrids) on es despleguen tècniques hidràuliques aplicades al cultiu, els prats i la molineria.

Life and Religion in the Middle Ages
Life and Religion in the Middle Ages

Author: Flocel Sabaté

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2015-09-04

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 1443881651

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Religious experience in the European Middle Ages represented an intersection of a range of aspects of existence, including everyday life, relations of power, and urban development, among others. As such, religion offered a reflection of many facets of life in this period. This book brings together scholars from different parts of the world who use a variety of different examples from the medieval era to show this specific path through which to reach a renewed perspective for understanding the European Middle Ages.

Convivencia and Medieval Spain
Convivencia and Medieval Spain

Author: Mark T. Abate

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-11-14

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 331996481X

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This volume is a collection of essays on medieval Spain, written by leading scholars on three continents, that celebrates the career of Thomas F. Glick. Using a wide array of innovative methodological approaches, these essays offer insights on areas of medieval Iberian history that have been of particular interest to Glick: irrigation, the history of science, and cross-cultural interactions between Jews, Christians, and Muslims. By bringing together original research on topics ranging from water management and timekeeping to poetry and women’s history, this volume crosses disciplinary boundaries and reflects the wide-ranging, gap-bridging work of Glick himself, a pivotal figure in the historiography of medieval Spain.

Crises and Transformation in the Mediterranean World
Crises and Transformation in the Mediterranean World

Author: Jordi Catalan Vidal

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-09-17

Total Pages: 503

ISBN-13: 3031245024

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This edited collection presents an economic history of Catalonia and its economic crises, from Roman times to the political difficulties of the present day. It considers how the strong identity of the Catalan people has been reinforced in critical episodes such as the commercial revolution of the Late Medieval Age, the 1640 rebellion, the Succession War of 1705-1714, the industrial revolution of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the strong repression during early Francoism. The book also explores how historical parallels from Catalonia’s past might shed light on the long-term consequences of the Great Recession of 2007-9 and recovery in the EU, showing how the typical Mediterranean approach of adjusting to crises by depreciating currencies and expanding public deficits has been less straightforward during the most recent financial crisis. A particularly deep slump has contributed to fostering the claim for independence of Catalonia in recent times, echoing larger dissatisfaction with EU monetary policy. With a comprehensive overview of major events in Catalonian economic history and their broader implications to European political economy and development, this book will be of interest to students and academics in economic history, social history, and monetary economics.

Catalonia: A New History
Catalonia: A New History

Author: Andrew Dowling

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-08-19

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 1000641600

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Catalonia: A New History revises many traditional and romantic conceptions in the historiography of a small nation. This book engages with the scholarship of the past decade and separates nationalist myth-history from real historical processes. It is thus able to provide the reader with an analytical account, situating each historical period within its temporal context. Catalonia emerges as a territory where complex social forces interact, where revolts and rebellions are frequent. This is a contested terrain where political ideologies have sought to impose their interpretation of Catalan reality. This book situates Catalonia within the wider currents of European and Spanish history, from pre-history to the contemporary independence movement, and makes an important contribution to our understanding of nation-making.

Beyond the Reconquista: New Directions in the History of Medieval Iberia (711-1085)
Beyond the Reconquista: New Directions in the History of Medieval Iberia (711-1085)

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-04-14

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 9004423877

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Beyond the Reconquista: New Directions in the History of Medieval Iberia (711-1085) offers an exciting series of essays by leading scholars in Hispanic Studies from across North America and Europe. At its heart is the Reconquista, without doubt the most important and enduring theme of Iberian historiography of the Middle Ages. The innovative studies collected herein, which treat a diverse array of subjects via forensic analyses of charters, chronicles and coins, shed new light on crucial aspects of medieval Iberian socio-economic, political and cultural history. The result is a collection of essays which marks a decisive and bold turning of the page in Iberian medieval studies, as the reality and ideal of Reconquest come under hitherto unparalleled scrutiny. Contributors are Graham Barrett, Jeffrey Bowman, Alberto Canto, Nicola Clarke, Wendy Davies, Julio Escalona, Jonathan Jarrett, Eduardo Manzano Moreno, Iñaki Martín Viso and Lucy K. Pick. See inside the book.

The Splendor and Opulence of the Past
The Splendor and Opulence of the Past

Author: Paul Freedman

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2023-11-15

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 1501772244

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The Splendor and Opulence of the Past traces the career of Jaume Caresmar (1717–1791), a church historian and a key figure of the Catalan Enlightenment who transcribed tens of thousands of parchments to preserve and glorify Catalonia's medieval past in the face of its diminishing autonomy. As Paul Freedman shows, Caresmar's books, essays, and transcriptions—some only recently discovered—provide fresh insights into the Middle Ages as remembered in modern Catalonia and illustrate how a nation's past glories and humiliations can inform contemporary politics and culture. From the ninth to the sixteenth centuries, Catalonia was a thriving, independent set of principalities within what would become modern Spain. In the wake of the dismantling of its autonomy by the eighteenth-century Spanish state, Catalan scholars looked to the region's medieval independence and wealth as a means of maintaining a distinct Catalan identity and resisting Castilian hegemony. Through their writings and archival investigations, Caresmar and the canons at Santa Maria de Bellpuig de les Avellanes, where Caresmar was abbot, laid the foundations for not only the scholarly exploration of the Middle Ages but also the development of Catalan national sentiment. Although the eighteenth century is often regarded as a low point for the Catalan language and culture, The Splendor and Opulence of the Past emphasizes the importance of this period's antiquarians to Catalan projects of modernization and economic progress and links their historiography of the Middle Ages to struggles over Catalonia's relationship to the Spanish state over two centuries.

Agricultural and Pastoral Landscapes in Pre-Industrial Society
Agricultural and Pastoral Landscapes in Pre-Industrial Society

Author: Fèlix Retamero

Publisher: Oxbow Books

Published: 2014-12-01

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1782970142

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Through a series of case studies, this third volume in the Earth series deals with the technological constraints and innovations that enabled societies to survive and thrive across a range of environmental conditions. The contributions are structured into three sections to draw out particular commonalities and contrasts in the choices made by pre-industrial communities in the construction of varied landscapes and cultural heritage: Landnam, from the Old Norse for ‘taking of land’, deals with colonization, including the drivers and processes through which colonizers developed an understanding of the productive potential and limitations of their new lands. Fields and field systems: Field-walls are a distinctive and apparently timeless characteristic of many pre-industrial farming landscapes but they present many the challenges to their study, such as the effects of plowing, abandonment and land-use change and of urban development in fertile lowland zones which may eradicate, reduce or conceal past systems of land-use and division. The importance of indirect and proxy evidence is illustrated and the value of interdisciplinary and modeling approaches emphasized. Agro-pastoralism: focuses on the complex ‘time-space adaptations’ devised for managing cultivation and livestock production, particularly the need to prevent stock incursions into arable fields during the growing season whilst making effective use of seasonal grazing resources. The contributions focus on mountainous areas, where temporary migrations, in the form of transhumance, provided access to a diversity of resources based around seasonal constraints on their availability and productivity.