• Curial e Güelfa, an Italian-Catalan Romance from the 15th Century lacking ‘Anomalies’ and ‘Mysteries’ 

  Soler, Abel (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2018)

  The ‘anomalies’ (Jaume Riera, 1991) or ‘mysteries’ (Rosa Navarro, 2011-2016) that have allowed stating the hypothesis of a falsified Curial in the 19th century by Milà i Fontanals do not match with the criteria of ...

• Ten Years of the Middle Ages Historic Studies Seminar (SEHSEM-UNAM) 2007-2017. Premises, balance and perspectives 

  Ríos Saloma, Martín F. (Martín Federico) (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2018)

  This article presents a balance of the achievements that were obtained throughout a decade’s worth of work (2007-2017) by the Middle Ages Historic Studies Seminar (SEHSEM, acronym in Spanish) developed by the Instituto ...

• The Romanesque Casket of Saints Adrian and Natalia (The Art Institute of Chicago): Cultural Context and Artistic Analysis 

  Moráis Morán, José Alberto (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2018)

  A monographic study of the caskets of Saints Adrian and Natalia from The Art Institute of Chicago was carried out. Historiography of Romanesque art has forgotten this piece, but it was studied analyzing the life cycle ...

• Christian Burial Privation in the Middle Ages: an interdisciplinary approach (France, mid-10th–early 14th) 

  Vivas, Mathieu (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2018)

  In the mid-10th century, the Christian Church creates consecrated cemeteries forbidden to those we might call the ‘bad dead’. At the same time, the landscape and social practices change thanks to a better defined guidance ...

• Imperator Burdinum Hispanum Romanae sedi violenter imposuit. A Research Proposal on the Archbishop of Braga and Antipope Gregory VIII, Maurice ‘Bourdin’ 

  Renzi, Francesco (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2018)

  The aim of this paper is to investigate the image of Archbishop of Braga and Antipope Gregory VIII (1118-1121), Maurice “Bourdin”. Often modern historiography has considered Maurice as only a minor figure of the Church ...

• A land of migrants in the Mediterranean. Iberian migratory flows in Sardinia between the 12th and 15th Centuries 

  Cioppi, Alessandra (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2018)

  The island of Sardinia is a meeting point for three continents, receiving a constant migration since prehistoric times. The migration from the Iberian Peninsula was permanent and consistent between the 12th and 15th, as ...

• The settlement of Jews in Vic: origin, provenance and mobility of the Jewish community (1231-1277) 

  Llop, Irene (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2018)

  This article focuses on the study of the establishment of Jewish families in Vic in the early 13th century. Documents from the Libri Judeorum, along with other notarial records, shine light on the origin and consolidation ...

• Innovating from tradition. Notes on historiographical production of Jacques le Goff, from the Mentalities to the Historical Anthropology 

  Mundaca, Diego (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2018)

  The writing and historiographical production of Jacques Le Goff pursued in the present work focuses on the time period when the Annales journal changed course, following the essential contributions of Fernand Braudel. ...

• History popularised and Tweeted: Emotions and Social Representations around the Conquest of Navarre in 1512 

  Mugueta Moreno, Íñigo (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2018)

  This study analyses the social representations and uses of the Conquest of Navarre in 1512 by the troops of Castile. Starting from an analysis of the feelings that David Lowenthal thinks history arouses, the interpretations ...

• Rescue of Christian Captives in Truces between Castile and the Nasrid Emirate of Granada (13th-15th centuries). A proposed analysis 

  Melo Carrasco, Diego; Vidal Castro, Francisco (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2018)

  This article analyzes the rescue of captives during truces signed by the Nasrid Emirate of Granada (1232-1492) and the Kingdom of Castile during the 13th-15th centuries. We know that one of the major impacts of border ...

• Profile of the mercantile Oligarchy in the mid-range Jewish Communities in the Kingdom of Aragon: the Avincacez family from Barbastro (Huesca) in the 14th and 15th Centuries 

  Motis Dolader, Miguel Ángel (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2018)

  Prior to its extinction due to the Disputation of Tortosa, the city of Barbastro had a Jewish community about three hundred inhabitants. Within that community, there was a large body of negotiators who dealt with the ...

• The presence of Castilian men at arms in the siege of Balaguer, 1413 

  González Sánchez, Santiago (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2018)

  This study analyses the presence of Castilian men of arms in the siege and conquest of Balaguer in 1413. It deals with the challenge of James, the Count of Urgell, to King Ferdinand, and how the latter, after virtually ...

• Religious Women in Andalusia at the end of the Middle Ages: Economic Foundation and Family Ties 

  Pérez González, Silvia María (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2018)

  The aim of this article is to study the collectives of religious women who lived at the end of the Middle Ages in Andalusia. Researches about this item multiplied in the last years, but the analysis has been made from ...

• State of the question and new perspectives in the treatment of the patrimonial heritage of al-Andalus in Catalonia 

  Brufal Sucarrat, Jesús (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2018)

  Talking about cultural heritage means discussing the material and immaterial inheritance from the cultural past of a society, but from the present. In Europe, all too often, the heritage is managed on an economic and ...

• The TV show Game of Thrones as an Educational Axis to Teach Medieval Hispanic Cultures 

  Perea Rodríguez, Óscar (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2018)

  This article shows how I have been lately combining my research in the cultural history of the Spanish Middle Ages and Early Renaissance with the TV show Game of Thrones for teaching purposes. I have been able to design ...

• The Tubal Figure in Early Modern Iberian Historiography, 16th and 17th century 

  Gloël, Matthias (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2017)

  This study is dedicated to the use of the biblical figure Tubal in early modern Iberian chronicles. The focus will be centered on how it is used in different ways in the different kingdoms (Castile, Aragon, Catalonia, ...

• Osteological studies of Archaeological Materials from Bohai Sites in Russia. A State of the Art 

  Kim, Alexander (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2017)

  The history of the Bohai studies in Russia is more than 150 years old. During those years Russian scholars have produced a number of interesting and valuable publications and combine use of written sources with study of ...

• Connections with the Past: Middle Ages in Colombian History Journals 

  Pérez Zambrano, Luis Manuel (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2017)

  This article is an overview of all the issues related to Middle Ages addressed by Colombian historians. The main goal of this article is to show how Middle Ages has been object of study and research in Colombia. We have ...

• A Will of their own? Children’s Agency and Child Labour in Byzantium 

  Rotman, Youval (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2017)

  This paper examines the relation between three concepts: a child’s will, children’s agency and child labour. Addressing the current debate about children’s agency, this paper shows how these concepts were developed in ...

• Depictions of Virtues and Vices as Mnemonic Devices 

  Solivan, Jennifer (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2017)

  The purpose of this article is to explore the reach of mnemonics practices and the idea of mental images in illuminated manuscripts, specifically in five illuminated manuscripts of the Psychomachia that are dated between ...

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