• Religious and political identity in medieval Europe: purity of faith and heresy 

  Mitre, Emilio (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2021)

  This article provides a diachronic and overall view to analyze the creation of an identity in medieval Europe expressed in religious and political terms and created from contrasting an internal cohesion confronted ...

• Ernst H. Kantorowicz's phases of medieval rulership 

  Puigarnau, Alfons (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2021)

  The Ernst Kantorowicz’s personal writings are held at the Leo Baeck Institute Archives in New York City. The “Phases of Medieval Rulership” is a little corpus of unknown pages where the German historian had drafted in ...

• Fishing in the island of Majorca in the middle ages (1230-1521): state of the art and initial results of an ongoing research 

  Barceló Crespí, Maria; Mas Forners, Antoni (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2021)

  This paper aims to present the initial results of an ongoing research on the study of fishing in the island of Majorca in the Middle Ages, which includes the fishing activity, its production organization, as well as ...

• Harvesting in holy waters: an overview of fishery in Portugal in the later middle ages and early modern times 

  Costa Dominguez, Rodrigo da (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2021)

  Traditional and consolidated Portuguese historiography has seen fishery throughout the Middle Ages, moving towards to Early Modern times, as an economic activity firstly (and mainly) connected to the State’s efforts ...

• Fishing, consumption, and processing of fish and shellfish in the eastern Adriatic through the long middle ages 

  Florence Fabijanec, Sabine (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2021)

  The article first presents a review of historical evidence on the presence and use of different species of fish in the eastern Adriatic (statutes and other normative sources, notarial documents, travelogues, literary ...

• Lamprey and herring 

  Freedman, Paul (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2021)

  As is common to all periods and cultures, medieval Europe held certain foods in esteem and regarded others as common, even lowly. The social prestige of a particular food item depended on factors such as scarcity, ...

• Fishing in medieval Valencia 

  Aparisi Romero, Frederic (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2021)

  This paper is concerned with fishing in the kingdom of Valencia during the Middle Ages based, mainly, on documentary evidence. Due to features of the sources, it focuses on coastal fishing although it also explores the ...

• Fishing the Thames estuary in the later middle ages: environment, technology and the metropolitan market for fish c. 1250-1550 

  Galloway, James A. (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2021)

  The estuary and tidal river of the Thames in south-eastern England were home to active commercial fisheries in the later middle ages. Despite conflicts over navigation, especially related to the use of fixed fish-weirs, ...

• Public law and its techniques: semantic adaptations in catalan legal practice (13th-14th centuries) 

  Tostes, Rogelio (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2021)

  This article tackles the analyse of how the techniques used by Catalan jurists in the 14th century regulated an in abstracto model of application to public law. The intellectual situation of these jurists juxtaposed ...

• Papal arbitration? Alexander VI and the portuguese and spanish discoveries of he 15th century 

  Rojas Donat, Luis (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2021)

  The article asks for the aim of Pope Alexander VI around the so-called Alexandrian bulls. Our purpose is to prove that the Pope did not act as an arbitrator about the Iberian disputes given that he always acted from ...

• Measuring and making the world: self-promotion, cosmology and elite appeal in filarete's libro architettonico 

  Guzik, Helena (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2021)

  Antonio Averlino (Filarete) (c. 1400-c. 1469) is best remembered for his architectural treatise, the Libro architettonico. Despite a longstanding tradition, beginning with Vasari, of dismissing Filarete as a mediocre ...

• How to make your medieval research more visible with open scholarship methods and tools 

  Wuttke, Ulrike; Gebert, Björn (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2021)

  Today research is in the midst of a global transformation that is usually referred to as Open Science. Open Science is a response from communities to global societal developments and to the digital transformation of ...

• Factions and nations: identity and identification in the historical video games set in the middle ages 

  Jiménez Alcázar, Juan Francisco (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2021)

  Historical video games offer players the opportunity to choose different options for managing factions and nations of the past, with which they can come to identify. The interactive and immersive nature of the medium ...

• Provision and consumption of fish in a catalan inland city during the Fourteenth and Fifteenth centuries: the case of Lleida 

  Roca Cabau, Guillem (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2021)

  This article explores the different supply methods of fish to an inland city in Catalonia. We have focused on Lleida, an inland city of the Crown of Aragon located at the confluence between Catalonia and Aragon. Although ...

• Power, monarchy and nobility on the frontiers of the crown of Aragon. The dispute between James I and Blasco de Alagón for the town of Morella (1231-1239) 

  Royo Pérez, Vicent (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2021)

  This article analyses the conflict that arose between King James I and the noble Blasco de Alagón for the possession of the town of Morella, on the frontier of the Crown of Aragon. Our intention is to analyse this ...

• 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 ...

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