Imago temporis: medium Aevum
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Imago temporis: medium Aevum (ISSN 1888-3931) va néixer l'any 2007 per tal de contribuir a la renovació en els estudis medievals, tot aplegant diferents aspectes i conceptes de l'Època Medieval, especialment referents als països de l'àrea del Mediterrani. S'assumeix una concepció de civilització medieval, per la qual cosa s'apleguen treballs des de la perspectiva de la història, la literatura, la llengua, l'art, el pensament o qualsevol altre àmbit de recerca que s'apropi a analitzar l'edat mitjana.
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Any: 2007 Núm.: 1 [13]
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Any: 2008 Núm.: 2 [17]
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Any: 2009 Núm.: 3 [26]
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Any: 2010 Núm.: 4 [27]
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Any: 2011 Núm.: 5 [14]
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Any: 2012 Núm.: 6 [15]
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Any: 2013 Núm.: 7 [23]
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Any: 2014 Núm.: 8 [15]
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Any: 2015 Núm.: 9 [15]
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Any: 2016 Núm.: 10 [15]
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Any: 2017 Núm.: 11 [15]
Recent Submissions
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The Tubal Figure in Early Modern Iberian Historiography, 16th and 17th century
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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 ... -
Greyware Pottery from Sant Miquel de La Vall: some Thoughts about the Distribution and Exchange of Utilitarian Cooking Pots in Medieval Catalonia
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2017)Medieval greyware pottery from Sant Miquel de la Vall presents a specific case for the study of this type of production in Catalonia. The archaeometric characterization of a group of 10 samples, consisting of their ... -
Maria Paleologina and the Il-Khanate of Persia. A Byzantine Princess in an Empire between Islam and Christendom
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2017)In the 13th century Persia, dominated by the Mongols, a Byzantine princess, Maria Paleologina, stood out greatly in the court of Abaqa Khan, her husband. The Il-Khanate of Persia was then an empire precariously balanced ... -
Episcopal Appointments and Royal Power: Theory and Practice of an unwritten Privilege in Medieval Portugal
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2017)The aim of this article is to study the role of kings in the episcopal appointments in Portugal from 1245 to 1357. This chronology covers the period marked by the government of three kings: Afonso III, Dinis and Afonso ... -
‘Al qual donà ample e bastant poder a tots los actes faedors en les dites Corts’. Power and Municipal Representation of Lleida in the Catalan Corts (1416-1458)
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2017)Municipal representation in the assemblies of the Catalan Corts (“Parliament”) is a particularly interesting argument to observe, especially from the point of view of the municipality, the main problems of the city and ... -
Álvaro de Luna as Tyrant. Public Opinion and Political Conflict in 15th century Castile
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2017)The continued portrayal of Juan II of Castile’s privado and royal favourite, Álvaro de Luna, as a tyrant, the record of the social expansion of this portrayal throughout his time in office and the fact that the main ... -
A Chartalist view of Numismatics (Fundaments and Necessities of the Discipline 30 years after the Work by Peter Spufford: ‘Money and its use in Medieval Europe’)
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2017)From a chartalist, non-monetarist starting point, the author analyses basic concepts of numismatics and the history of money, auxiliary disciplines of History, focussing on the medieval epoch and indicating its shortcoming ... -
The Initiation Power of the Mediterranean Sea in ‘Tirant Lo Blanch’ as a matter for new sources from Classical Historians to explain Facts of the Middle Ages
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2017)Tirant lo Blanch is a novel with multiple sides. In particular, the Mediterranean Sea becomes especially important. We pay attention to two episodes which can become examples of the strategic relevance that corresponds ... -
‘Beatas’, ‘Beaterios’ and Convents: the Origin of the Basque Female Conventual Life
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2017)This article analyzes the beaterios as expressions of feminine religiosity during the Middle Ages preceding the regular convents founded during the Modern Age. This is confirmed through both the role of the beaterios ... -
The Reform of Samos Abbey between 1491 and 1637: Uncovering the Logic of the Architectural Changes
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2017)Based on several archival sources and new graphic approaches, this article seeks to examine the first major changes that were made on the medieval architecture of Samos Abbey (Lugo-Spain) during the period that ranged ... -
You are what You Ate: Consuming the Past to benefit the Present
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2017)You Are What You Ate was a British public engagement project funded by the Wellcome Trust between 2010 and 2014. It was a collaboration between the University of Leeds, the University of Bradford and Wakefield Council, ... -
The use of interactive and educational tools to understand romanesque Heritage: a case study in Erill La Vall (Lleida)
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2016)This paper analyses the concept of interpretation centres as an effective tool to understand heritage. At the same time, it presents the case study of the Centre del Romànic de la Vall de Boí (CRVB) in Erill la Vall ... -
The ‘Monastic Wales Project’
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2016)The religious houses of medieval Wales, along with the Norman and native Welsh castles, form an important part of the country’s medieval heritage. The Monastic Wales Project, launched in 2009, aims to explore how medieval ... -
Identity and Difference among the Toulouse Elite at the end of the Middle Ages: Discourse, epresentations and Practices
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2016)In Toulouse, in the 14th and 15th centuries, in a difficult and changing context, the urban elites, embodied by the well-known Capitoulat, actually make up a heterogeneous, mobile, and divided group. In spite of their ... -
Urban Identity in Castile in the 15th century
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2016)Identities in the urban world are mental constructs of varying degrees of complexity that are built on the structure of the social groups to which they refer. But urban identity was a complex system also constructed based ... -
Seigneurial Pressure: external Constrictions and Stimuli in the Construction of urban collective Identities in 15th century Castile
(Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2016)Seigneurial pressure, exerted on cities and towns and their municipal jurisdictions by the nobility, constituted one of the dominant traits of Castilian politics in the 15th century. Notwithstanding the extent and intensity ...