The Crown Of Aragon
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The Crown Of Aragon
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2017-09-25
The Crown Of Aragon written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-25 with History categories.
The Crown of Aragon. A Singular Mediterranean Empire recovers the history of an important late medieval crossroads, that brought peoples from Iberia to Greece together and promoted culture as a means of cohesion.
The King S Other Body
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Author : Theresa Earenfight
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2012-02-24
The King S Other Body written by Theresa Earenfight and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Queen María of Castile, wife of Alfonso V, "the Magnanimous," king of the Crown of Aragon, governed Catalunya in the mid-fifteenth century while her husband conquered and governed the kingdom of Naples. For twenty-six years, she maintained a royal court and council separate from and roughly equivalent to those of Alfonso in Naples. Such legitimately sanctioned political authority is remarkable given that she ruled not as queen in her own right but rather as Lieutenant-General of Catalunya with powers equivalent to the king's. María does not fit conventional images of a queen as wife and mother; indeed, she had no children and so never served as queen-regent for any royal heirs in their minorities or exercised a queen-mother's privilege to act as diplomat when arranging the marriages of her children and grandchildren. But she was clearly more than just a wife offering advice: she embodied the king's personal authority and was second only to the king himself. She was his alter ego, the other royal body fully empowered to govern. For a medieval queen, this official form of corulership, combining exalted royal status with official political appointment, was rare and striking. The King's Other Body is both a biography of María and an analysis of her political partnership with Alfonso. María's long, busy tenure as lieutenant prompts a reconsideration of long-held notions of power, statecraft, personalities, and institutions. It is also a study of the institution of monarchy and a theoretical reconsideration of the operations of gender within it. If the practice of monarchy is conventionally understood as strictly a man's job, María's reign presents a compelling argument for a more complex model, one attentive to the dynamic relationship of queenship and kingship and the circumstances and theories that shaped the institution she inhabited.
Kingship And Propaganda
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Author : Suzanne F. Cawsey
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2002-07-04
Kingship And Propaganda written by Suzanne F. Cawsey and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-07-04 with History categories.
In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries the Crown of Aragon was a rapidly expanding and powerful political unit with an original form of representative government. Throughout this period a series of energetic and talented rulers sought to maintain royal authority and govern their realms effectively. Their persuasive rhetoric, and that of their advisers, is preserved in the archives of the Crown of Aragon in Barcelona, which provide a rich and under-exploited vein of source material for historians. There are long letters to their subjects, historical works, and the proceedings of the cortes, where the kings and queens perusaded their reluctant subjects to grant taxes and to support their decisions. Suzanne F. Cawsey examines the tradition of royal eloquence, thereby illuminating the nature of political discourse and persuasion in medieval Aragon and exploring the key ideas shared by the king and the political classes of the kingdom.
Curial And Guelfa
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language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2011-12-15
Curial And Guelfa written by and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Among 15th-century literature in the Romance languages, Curial and Guelfa is one of the most successful romances of chivalry. It is a veritable jewel of late medieval European literature and of narrative in the Crown of Aragon in particular. Curial shares a range of features — realism, humanity, believable deeds of chivalry, historical background, allusions to everyday life, elements of humour and parody, variation between literary and popular language — with contemporary French chivalric narratives, and with the Valencian Joanot Martorell’s Tirant lo Blanc. In this company, however, Curial stands out for the predominance in it of the sentimental component, for a significant incidence of learned elements from Greek and Latin classical culture and from the early fathers of the Christian church, and for its striking stylistic elegance. These learned elements are an indication of fresh humanistic breezes blowing from Italy. In this way the novel unites several cultural currents that converge in western Romance narrative at the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance. This translation into English, by Max W. Wheeler, is based upon the 2008 edition by Antoni Ferrando.
The Fall Of The Templars In The Crown Of Aragon
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Author : Alan Forey
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Release Date : 2001
The Fall Of The Templars In The Crown Of Aragon written by Alan Forey and has been published by Ashgate Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
The trial of the Templars and the dissolution of the Order of the Temple are popular subjects for historians, but the focus of most work has been on France. In this book Alan Forey adds greatly to our understanding of the drama, not just by examining events in Spain, but also by looking at aspects which are often ignored, such as the treatment of the Templars while in custody, and their situation after the trial. Since the Aragonese Templars possessed numerous castles - a legacy of the Spanish Reconquest - they were also able to offer stouter resistance to attempts to arrest them than their colleagues elsewhere. A series of sieges was needed, lasting up to a year and a half, and the study of these provides a useful contribution to our knowledge of medieval siege warfare. Consideration is also given to the fate of Templar property, both during proceedings and later, when their lands in Valencia were used to endow the new military order of Montesa. The work is based throughout upon the examination of unused testimonies and manuscript sources, especially from the Crown Archive in Barcelona, and its sound scholarship will help dispel some of the myths which still surround the fall of the Templars.
Crusade Heresy And Inquisition In The Lands Of The Crown Of Aragon C 1167 1276
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Author : Damian Smith
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2010-05-20
Crusade Heresy And Inquisition In The Lands Of The Crown Of Aragon C 1167 1276 written by Damian Smith and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-20 with History categories.
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.
Late Gothic Painting In The Crown Of Aragon And The Hispanic Kingdoms
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-06-19
Late Gothic Painting In The Crown Of Aragon And The Hispanic Kingdoms written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-19 with History categories.
This book analyzes the genesis and evolution of the late Gothic painting in the Crown of Aragon and the Hispanic kingdoms, examining this phenomenon in relation to the whole context of Europe in the second half of the fifteenth century.
Innocent Iii And The Crown Of Aragon
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Author : Damian J. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-05-15
Innocent Iii And The Crown Of Aragon written by Damian J. Smith and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-15 with History categories.
Drawing on an extensive study of the primary sources, Damian Smith explores the relationship between the Roman Curia and Aragon-Catalonia in the late 12th and early 13th centuries. His focus is the pontificate of Innocent III, the most politically influential medieval Pope, and the reign of King Peter II of Aragon and the first years of King James I. By analysing the practical example of papal actions towards one of its closest secular allies, the work deepens our understanding of the objectives and limits of the Papacy, while making clear the Pope's profound influence on the realm's political development. Marriage affairs and politics, the Spanish Reconquista, with the campaign of Las Navas, and the Albigensian Crusade, in which King Peter met his death at the battle of Muret, are all covered. The final chapters turn more specifically to Church affairs, looking at the relations between the papacy and the bishops of the province of Tarragona, and at the success of Innocent III's mission to reform religious life.
Medieval Crown Of Aragon
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Author : Thomas N. Bisson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Medieval Crown Of Aragon written by Thomas N. Bisson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Aragon (Spain) categories.
Captives And Their Saviors In The Medieval Crown Of Aragon
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Author : Jarbel Rodriguez
language : en
Publisher: CUA Press
Release Date : 2007
Captives And Their Saviors In The Medieval Crown Of Aragon written by Jarbel Rodriguez and has been published by CUA Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
Captives and Their Saviors in the Medieval Crown of Aragon argues that by this time the ransoming efforts were on a kingdom-wide scale engaging not only professional ransomers, merchants, and officials of the crown but the population at large.