• For a Genetic and Diplomatic approach to Old Cadastres: Proposals and Advice for Editing Cadastral Sources 

  Jean Courret, Ezéchiel (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2020)

  Old cadastres are largely used as sources in a good many geohistorical publications. Although often reduced to their planimetric aspect alone, they form the kernel of a substantial documentary output. The constraints on ...

• The Archaeology of the Peasantry in the Early Medieval Age. Reflections and proposals 

  Kirchner, Helena (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2020)

  The archaeology of the medieval peasantry in Spain and Europe has attracted renewed attention in recent decades. This article is an overview of the research carried out in the last 30 years into the peasantry and their ...

• From Occitania to Catalonia. Catharism: the Current State of Research 

  Gascón Chopo, Carles (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2020)

  This article offers a historiographical analysis of the question of Catharism in medieval Europe, taking as its starting point a proposal structured around two clearly differentiated parts, which respectively focus on an ...

• Weaponizing Historical Knowledge: the Notion of Reconquista in Spanish Nationalism 

  García Sanjuán, Alejandro (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2020)

  The notion of Reconquista is the product of 19th-century Spanish Nationalist thinking. Although developed as an academic concept, it played, at the same time, a crucial political and ideological role, thus holding a very ...

• Founding and Ineffable Identities: Pelagius, Virgin and Martyr 

  Mérida Jiménez, Rafael M. (Rafael Manuel) (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2020)

  Raguel’s Vita vel passio sancti Pelagii (c. 967) and Hroswitha of Gandersheim’s poem (10th century) devoted to Pelagius are keywords for the creation of an European literary and symbolic space against Muslims. Both texts ...

• Celo inter manus pontificum tradidit spiritum. The Ideology surrounding Royal Deaths in the Light of the Latin Castilian-Leonese Chronicles (Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries) 

  Rodríguez Peña Sainz de la Maza, Diego (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2020)

  The death of a king in the medieval chronicles is an incomparable historiographical locus from which to examine this phenomenon. Historiographical texts written at the Castilian-Leonese court during the twelfth century and ...

• Conflict Generated by the Land Distribution after the Feudal Conquest of Majorca (1230-1244) 

  Pérez i Pastor, Plàcid (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2020)

  The distribution of property after the taking of the Ciutat de Mallorca in December 1229 was a complex process that lasted for over two and a half years. The difficulties given by researchers when explaining this include ...

• Some Problematic Animals in Marco Polo’s Description of the World 

  Haw, Stephen G. (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2020)

  There are a number of animals mentioned in Marco Polo’s book which present difficulties. A few are considered here. The papiones of the area near Fuzhou have been identified as Chinese ferret-badgers. It is suggested that ...

• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: Reconnaissance, Spying on Mercenaries and Crusaders 

  Ölbei, Tamás (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2020)

  Spying always used to be an essential part of the strategy of the companies, as it was always much more dangerous and it caused more loss in human life to risk a frontal assault against a walled city or castle than to use ...

• Leasing the Seigneurial Rents: Remences as Lessees in Girona (14th-15th Centuries) 

  Lluch Bramon, Rosa (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2020)

  Becoming wealthy in the Middle Ages was as viable as in any other period of history. However, the feudal system imposed many limitations, especially on those who did not belong to the privileged elites. My goal in this ...

• Joan Palou, Foundryman and Master Cannon Maker of the City of Barcelona at the End of the 15th Century 

  Amenós Martínez, Luisa (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2020)

  In the Late Middle Ages, artillery became a key element of military tactics. Monarchy, nobility and government institutions were aware of the need to employ the services of craftsmen specialised in the art of building, ...

• Reading the (Exterior) Walls of the Parish Church of the Nativity of our of Lara de los Infantes 

  Palomero, Félix; Palomero, Irene (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2020)

  Our preliminary work consisted of an archaeological study of the church, taking photographs, and gathering data in situ for subsequent analysis. A set of sketches of the walls were generated from the photographs using a ...

• Urbano Monte's World Maps: Sources and Development 

  Van Duzer, Chet (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2020)

  This articles provides a window into late sixteenth-century map production by discussing the distinctive features, the use of sources, and the changes over time in the world maps of 1587, 1590, and c. 1604 by the Milanese ...

• An Ecclesiastical Identity in the Making: the Medieval Cathedral and Bishopric of St David's (Wales) 

  Stöber, Karen (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2020)

  This article discusses the repeated attempts made by churchmen in medieval Wales to elevate the bishopric of St David’s to metropolitan status. Drawing on often dubious “historical” evidence and an alleged precedent, several ...

• The Byzantine Hospital Organization and the Knights of St John in Jerusalem 

  Greif, Esteban (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2020)

  Towards the second half of the 12st century, the order of the Hospitallers in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem finished the construction of the great hospital that granted it the high degree of recognition and prestige in ...

• The Recapitulatio: An Apocalyptic Pattern in Middle English Literature 

  Castro Carracedo, Juan Manuel (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2019)

  This article examines the evolution in medieval English literature of the Recapitulatio, an organizing narrative principle often used in apocalyptic writings, starting with John’s Revelation. This structural pattern combined ...

• Hagiography and National Consciousness: The case of Sant Beuno of Wales 

  Stöber, Karen (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2019)

  This article looks at ways in which the political situation in medieval Wales was reflected in the writings of native authors, and in particular in the medieval Welsh hagiography. It discusses how native Welsh saints were ...

• Between Mythopoiesis, Stereotypes and unconscious Projections. Some case studies of the Historiography on medieval Sardinia (19th-21st centuries) 

  Gallinari, Luciano (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2019)

  This article proposes some reflections on the historiography produced in the last century and a half on medieval Sardinia, used as a case study because in the island the Middle Ages has been showered with nationalistic and ...

• The finis terrae and the Last Frontier. On La Edad Media de Chile (‘The Middle Ages of Chile’) 

  Marín, José A. (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2019)

  This essay proposes, first, a revision of the concept of frontier as concerns limen, “threshold”, going beyond the concept of limes, or boundary. It is proposed that this threshold extends chronologically beyond the 15th ...

• The importance of Ptolemy and the Almagest in the work of the translators of Arabic Science in the Middle Ages 

  Martínez Gázquez, José (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2019)

  The evolution of medieval European science goes with the discovery of Ancient Greek works, such as Aristotle’s or Ptolemy’s ones, through the numerous translations from Arabic which were particularly carried out in Peninsula ...

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