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A New Approach to the Biography of Pedro Jiménez de Samper, a Knight Deployed in the Border in the Service of Pedro IV of Aragon (ca. 1314-1364)

Mario LAFUENTE GÓMEZ

Original title: Una nueva aproximación a la biografía de Pedro Jiménez de Samper, un caballero de frontera al servicio de Pedro IV de Aragón (ca. 1314-1364)

Published in Returning to Eden

Keywords: 14th Century, Crown of Aragon, Military History, Nobility, Peter IV of Aragon, Social History, War.

Pedro Jiménez de Samper was a prominent member of the Aragon’s middle nobility, who lived during the central decades of the 14th century and developed an intense military career in the service of King Peter IV of Aragon, the Ceremonious. In this text, we offer a revised and expanded version of his biography, which we first published in 2008 in this journal’s number 8. The current version preserves the original text while incorporating new content, which refers to all the stages of Samper’s life and allows us to considerably widen the repertoire of issues previously addressed. Among the most important new features presented here are the location of his family origins, the identification of his clientele networks and the dating of his death. The result is a case study that provides an accurate illustration of the relationship between aristocracy and war in the Crown of Aragon in this period of the late Middle Ages.

A controversial written by Arnaldus de Villa Nova (1242-1311)

Noeli Dutra ROSSATTO

Original title: Um escrito polêmico de Arnaldo de Vilanova (1242-1311)

Published in The Medieval Aesthetics

Keywords: Arnold of Vilanova, Crown of Aragon, Franciscans, Joachim of Fiore, Middle Ages.

I present to the reader the translation of the text De gladius iugulans thomatistas (The sword that slaughters the thomatists) of the Catalan philosopher, doctor and alchemist Arnold of Vilanova (1242-1311). The text teaches the tension between the ideas of the Spiritual Franciscans of the Late Middle Ages, usually linked to the thought of the Calabrian Abbot Joachim of Fiore (12th century) and the scholasticism of the Dominicans. From the contact of Arnold of Vilanova with the Aragonese Court, we have the link between three important themes for the current studies of the presence of medieval political ideas in Latin-American colonial: the Feasts of the Empire of the Divine of Luso-Brazilian tradition, the Franciscans and the Joachimites. In terms of content, the translated text summarizes the main topics covered in the works of the Catalan philosopher, including: the figurative interpretation of writing and its application to the reading of history, evangelical poverty in Franciscan discussion of using poverty (usus pauper) and the biblical prophecies about the end of time and the coming of the Antichrist.

About he name of St. Mary of Blaquerna: some questions and answers

Júlia BUTINYÀ

Original title: Sobre el nom de santa Maria de Blaquerna: algunes preguntes i respostes

Published in Idea and image of royal power of the monarchies in Ancient and Medieval World

Keywords: Crown of Aragon, Mariology, Middle Ages, Ramon Llull.

About the name of the Virgin who is identified with the protagonist of the first novel of Ramon Llull, Romanç d’Evast e Blaquerna, several contributions have been made lately; here we add some new and formulate some questions. Because to the hypothesis established about the image as coming from the church of the palace of Constantinople, I added that of Corfu as its original place. Now, the fact of having found two churches with the same name in the area of the Ionian Sea enhances the value and influence of the primitive image, as well as its original location in Corfu.

At the Dawn of Modernity. Music and Painting in the time of Afonso V (1396-1458), the Magnanimous

Ricardo da COSTA; Alexandre Emerick NEVES; Antonio Celso RIBEIRO

Original title: Na Alvorada da Modernidade. Música e Pintura no tempo de Afonso V (1396-1458), o Magnânimo

Published in Games from Antiquity to Baroque

Keywords: Afonso the Magnanimous, Crown of Aragon, Hispano-Flemish Art, Renaissance Music.

Estudo da música renascentista e da pintura hispano-flamenga da corte napolitana da Coroa de Aragão durante o reinado de Afonso V, o Magnânimo (1396-1458) à época do Poemário (Dictats) de Ausiàs March (c.1397-1459).

Crime and punishment: criminality in medieval Valencia in fifteenth century

Alberto BARBER BLASCO

Original title: Crim i càstig: la criminalitat a la València medieval al segle XV

Published in

Keywords: Criminality, Crown of Aragon, Middle Ages, Valencia, XVth century.

Violence and justice has been present during the history at most of societies. During the Middle Age exists different behaviours that alter the order and social peace, and to face up to it, the municipal government were activated different legal mechanisms to reply that transgressive attitudes. Our criminality study in Valencia during the XV century allow us to exemplify the most habitual criminal cases that medieval justices condemn in form of punishment: economic, physical or both. The frequency with which Valencia’s city habitants report the different violent abuses allows us to know which crime and felonies were produced with more periodicity in the kingdom’s capital. In this article we will show the crime which were produced in the city of Valencia and which methods were used to eradicate these behaviours.

El pensamiento político franciscano de la Corona de Aragón (siglos XIII-XV): modelos, paradigmas e ideas

Rafael RAMIS BARCELÓ

Original title: O pensamento político franciscano da Coroa de Aragão (sécs. XIII-XV): modelos, paradigmas e ideias

Published in Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Peninsula Cultural History

Keywords: Crown of Aragon, Franciscan Political thought, Franciscanism, Middle Ages.

This paper aims to present the importance of Franciscanism in the political thought of the Crown of Aragon. After examining the settlement of the Franciscan Order in the Crown of Aragon and studying the obtainable historiography, a series of models are proposed through cross ideological currents, thinkers, political actors and basic issues of political medieval theory. This would support the idea that in the Crown of Aragon (in a broad sense) some traits can be individualized that can only be understood through Political Franciscanism.

Medieval latin manuscript culture of the Crown of Aragon. Transcription and study of the parchments of the 12th-13th centuries of the Archive “general b” of the Borja Library (Sant Cugat del Vallès)

Enric MALLORQUÍ-RUSCALLEDA

Original title: Cultura medieval llatina manuscrita de la Corona d’Aragó. Transcripció i estudi dels pergamins dels segles XII-XIII del Fons General b de la Biblioteca Borja (Sant Cugat del Vallès)

Published in Mirabilia Journal 34

Keywords: Borja Library, Crown of Aragon, Edition, Latin, Manuscript Culture, Medieval, Sant Cugat, Transcription.

Father Antoni Borràs i Feliu, archivist of the library of the Borgia Center of Sant Cugat del Vallés, announced in 1994 the acquisition of a series of parchments by the library of this center. Father Borràs classified these parchments of varied typology, grouping them in four categories: A, B (“General Fons”), C (“Fons Ripoll-Sant Joan de les Abadesses”), D (“Fons Berga”), and E (“Fons vari”). This article presents the transcription and a brief codicological and paleographic study of B (“Fons General”). Among the parchments in question are pontifical documents (“butlles”), royal documents, university degrees, and a few documents classified by centuries: from the 12th to the 17th century. Here I study the latter; more specifically, the documents catalogued with the numbers 4.1 (number 1 for us) and 4.2 (numbers 2 and 3).

Que me podiesse lamar e sea daqui adelant principe de villena e de la otra tierra que jo he en el vuestro senyorio. Don Juan Manuel and the Crown of Aragon

José Vicente CABEZUELO PLIEGO

Original title: Que me podiesse lamar e sea daqui adelant principe de villena e de la otra tierra que jo he en el vuestro senyorio. Don Juan Manuel y la Corona de Aragón

Published in

Keywords: Castile, Crown of Aragon, Juan Manuel, Kingdom of Valencia, Villena’s Manor, XIV Century.

This paper analyzes the relationship of the Manuel family (mainly through the nobleman Juan Manuel) with the Valencian domains of the King of Aragon through his properties in La Mancha and Murcia. These properties are studied from the time of the conquest of the Kingdom of Murcia by James II to Juan Manuel´s death in the mid-14th c. We also study the relationship between Juan Manuel and the kings of the Crown of Aragon regarding Castile within the context of contemporary Iberian historical event.

Structuring the tradition in the old Catalan Literatures: from Ramon Llull (1232-1316) to Bernat Metge (1340-1413)

Júlia BUTINYÀ

Original title: Estructurant la tradició en les lletres catalanes antigues: de Ramon Llull (1232-1316) a Bernat Metge (1340-1413)

Published in The World of Tradition

Keywords: Bernat Metge, Crown of Aragon, Humanism, Middle Ages, Ramon Llull.

To contribute to structuring the tradition in the Catalan letters of the Middle Ages, links are exposed that root the thought of the great humanist, Bernat Metge, in the great medieval philosopher, Ramon Llull. This link allows us to observe the continuity that, in one way or another and with greater or lesser intensity – and often with leaps of eras-, can be seen in the different literatures. According to the present proposal of textual concomitants, in the Crown of Aragon and through both authors, the connection between tradition and modernity occurs with high intensity in the 14th century itself, right at the beginning of the change in mentality and sensibility.

The figure of Francesc de Vinatea in the kingdom of Valencia. From the royal chronicle to the archival records (1331-1332)

Vicent BAYDAL SALA

Original title: A figura de Francesc de Vinatea no reino de Valência. Da crônica real aos documentos arquivísticos (1331-1332)

Published in Relations between History and Literature in Ancient and Medieval World

Keywords: 14th century, Chronicles, Crown of Aragon, Francesc de Vinatea, Kingdom of Valencia.

Francesc de Vinatea was called a medieval hero by the liberal historiography and he still occupies an important position in the collective imagination of the Valencian society. This consideration comes from the facts narrated in the chronicle of Pedro IV of Aragon, which, however, we now know that were altered by the monarch himself to improve his image. This manipulation is what we intend to reveal in this text, by comparing the narrative of the chronicle with archival data extracted from the Aragonese royal chancery documents.

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