- therese.martin@cchs.csic.es
Dept. de Estudios Medievales
Instituto de Historia, 2E16
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
C/ Albasanz, 26-28
Madrid 28037
Spain
- Romanesque architecture, Gender History, Medieval Studies, European History, Art History, Medieval History, and 57 moreSpanish History, Cultural History, Power and Authority in the Middle Ages, Medieval Iberian History, Medieval Art, Romanesque Art, Medieval Women, Medieval Islamic History, Medieval Jewish History, Al-Andalus, Medieval Architecture, Medieval urban history, Spanish Medieval Chronicles, Queenship (Medieval History), Architectural History, History, Social History, Historical Archaeology, History of Medicine, Historiography, Women In Medieval Art, Susan Havens Caldwell, Quitterie Cazes, Obituaire Senlis Xiie Siecle, Medieval Art Syllabus, Mecenazgo Femenino, Gotico Real, Blanche of Castile and Architecture, Medieval Archaeology, Archaeology, Early Medieval Archaeology, Early Medieval History, Manuscript Studies, Islamic Art, Medieval Church History, Mediterranean Studies, Medieval Islam, Medieval Europe, Medieval Spain, Medieval Mediterranean Art and Architecture, Memory Studies, Royal Power, Camino de Santiago, History of Monasticism, Sovereignty, Muslim-Christian Relation, Medieval Epigraphy, Medieval Iconography, Early and Medieval Islamic Art and Architecture, Islamic and Norman Sicily, Norman Sicily, Islamic Sicily, Medieval Sicily, Late Antiquity, Byzantine Studies, Women's Studies, and Gender Studiesedit
- I recently headed the research project "The Medieval Iberian Treasury in Context: Collections, Connections, and Repre... moreI recently headed the research project "The Medieval Iberian Treasury in Context: Collections, Connections, and Representations on the Peninsula and Beyond" (Research Challenge Grant, Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities, RTI2018-098615-B-I00, 2019-2022). In the project, art historians, archaeologists, curators, and historians from seven countries examined the geographically charged nature of objects and investigated women as vectors of cultural exchange.
Former projects include:
--“The Medieval Treasury across Frontiers and Generations: The Kingdom of León-Castilla in the Context of Muslim-Christian Interchange (c. 1050-1200)” (National Excellence in Research Grant, Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitivity, HAR2015-68614-P, 2016-2018)
--“Reassessing the Roles of Women as ‘Makers’ of Medieval Art and Architecture" (European Research Council Starting Grant no. 263036, 2010-2015)edit
Spanish translation of John Williams, Visions of the End in Medieval Spain: Catalogue of Illustrated Beatus Commentaries on the Apocalypse and Study of the Geneva Beatus, ed. Therese Martin, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017.... more
Spanish translation of John Williams, Visions of the End in Medieval Spain: Catalogue of Illustrated Beatus Commentaries on the Apocalypse and Study of the Geneva Beatus, ed. Therese Martin, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017.
English version in open access: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30053
English version in open access: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30053
Research Interests: Medieval History, Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, Medieval Iberian Literature, Medieval Studies, Rare Books and Manuscripts, and 8 moreMedieval Iberian History, Medieval Art, Manuscripts (Medieval Studies), Codicology of medieval manuscripts, Medieval illuminated manuscripts, Early Medieval Art, Medieval Spain, and Medieval Art History
The Medieval Iberian Treasury in the Context of Cultural Interchange—expanded beyond the special issue of Medieval Encounters from which it was drawn—centers on the magnificent treasury of San Isidoro de León to address wider questions... more
The Medieval Iberian Treasury in the Context of Cultural Interchange—expanded beyond the special issue of Medieval Encounters from which it was drawn—centers on the magnificent treasury of San Isidoro de León to address wider questions about the meanings of cross-cultural luxury goods in royal-ecclesiastical settings during the central Middle Ages. Now fully open access and with an updated introduction to ongoing research, an additional chapter, composite bibliographies, and indices, this multidisciplinary volume opens fresh ways into the investigation of medieval objects and textiles through historical, art historical, and technical analyses. Carbon-14 dating, iconography, and social history are among the methods applied to material and textual evidence, together shining new light on the display of rulership in medieval Iberia.
Contributors are Ana Cabrera Lafuente, María Judith Feliciano, Julie A. Harris, Jitske Jasperse, Therese Martin, Pamela A. Patton, Ana Rodríguez, and Nancy L. Wicker.
Contributors are Ana Cabrera Lafuente, María Judith Feliciano, Julie A. Harris, Jitske Jasperse, Therese Martin, Pamela A. Patton, Ana Rodríguez, and Nancy L. Wicker.
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This book is now freely downloadable at http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=627041. It was selected for generous open access funding from Knowledge Unlatched (http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/). For a hard copy, see Amsterdam... more
This book is now freely downloadable at http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=627041. It was selected for generous open access funding from Knowledge Unlatched (http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/).
For a hard copy, see Amsterdam University Press page: http://en.aup.nl/books/9789462980624-visions-of-the-end-in-medieval-spain.html
For the table of contents and Chapter 1: http://en.aup.nl/download/Look%20Inside%20-%20Visions%20of%20the%20End%20in%20Medieval%20Spain.pdf
For a hard copy, see Amsterdam University Press page: http://en.aup.nl/books/9789462980624-visions-of-the-end-in-medieval-spain.html
For the table of contents and Chapter 1: http://en.aup.nl/download/Look%20Inside%20-%20Visions%20of%20the%20End%20in%20Medieval%20Spain.pdf
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https://tandfonline.com/toc/rmed20/42/1?nav=tocList Contents: Therese Martin, “The Margin to Act: A Framework of Investigation for Medieval Women’s (and Men’s) Art-Making,” pp. 1-25. Alexandra Gajewski and Stefanie Seeberg, “Having... more
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Contents:
Therese Martin, “The Margin to Act: A Framework of Investigation for Medieval Women’s (and Men’s) Art-Making,” pp. 1-25.
Alexandra Gajewski and Stefanie Seeberg, “Having Her Hand in It? Elite Women as ‘Makers’ of Textile Art in the Middle Ages,” pp. 26-50.
Jenifer Ní Ghrádaigh, “The Occluded Role of Royal Women and Lost Works of Pre-Norman English and Irish Art (10th-12th c.),” pp. 51-75.
Shannon Wearing, “Holy Donors, Mighty Queens: Imaging Women in the Spanish Cathedral Cartularies of the Long Twelfth Century,” pp. 76-106.
Glaire Anderson, “A Mother’s Gift? Astrology and the Pyxis of al-Mughira,” pp. 107-130.
Julie A. Harris, “Making Room at the Table: Women, Passover, and the Sister Haggadah (BL MS Or. 2884)” pp. 131-153.
Contents:
Therese Martin, “The Margin to Act: A Framework of Investigation for Medieval Women’s (and Men’s) Art-Making,” pp. 1-25.
Alexandra Gajewski and Stefanie Seeberg, “Having Her Hand in It? Elite Women as ‘Makers’ of Textile Art in the Middle Ages,” pp. 26-50.
Jenifer Ní Ghrádaigh, “The Occluded Role of Royal Women and Lost Works of Pre-Norman English and Irish Art (10th-12th c.),” pp. 51-75.
Shannon Wearing, “Holy Donors, Mighty Queens: Imaging Women in the Spanish Cathedral Cartularies of the Long Twelfth Century,” pp. 76-106.
Glaire Anderson, “A Mother’s Gift? Astrology and the Pyxis of al-Mughira,” pp. 107-130.
Julie A. Harris, “Making Room at the Table: Women, Passover, and the Sister Haggadah (BL MS Or. 2884)” pp. 131-153.
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http://www.brill.com/products/book/reassessing-roles-women-makers-medieval-art-and-architecture-paperback "These volumes propose a renewed way of framing the debate around the history of medieval art and architecture to highlight the... more
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"These volumes propose a renewed way of framing the debate around the history of medieval art and architecture to highlight the multiple roles played by women. Today’s standard division of artist from patron is not seen in medieval inscriptions—on paintings, metalwork, embroideries, or buildings—where the most common verb is 'made' (fecit). At times this denotes the individual whose hands produced the work, but it can equally refer to the person whose donation made the undertaking possible. Here twenty-four scholars examine secular and religious art from across medieval Europe to demonstrate that a range of studies is of interest not just for a particular time and place but because, from this range, overall conclusions can be drawn for the question of medieval art history as a whole.
Contributors are Mickey Abel, Glaire D. Anderson, Jane L. Carroll, Nicola Coldstream, María Elena Díez Jorge, Jaroslav Folda, Alexandra Gajewski, Loveday Lewes Gee, Melissa R. Katz, Katrin Kogman-Appel, Pierre Alain Mariaux, Therese Martin, Eileen McKiernan González, Rachel Moss, Jenifer Ní Ghrádaigh, Felipe Pereda, Annie Renoux, Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues, Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg, Stefanie Seeberg, Miriam Shadis, Ellen Shortell, Loretta Vandi, and Nancy L. Wicker."
"These volumes propose a renewed way of framing the debate around the history of medieval art and architecture to highlight the multiple roles played by women. Today’s standard division of artist from patron is not seen in medieval inscriptions—on paintings, metalwork, embroideries, or buildings—where the most common verb is 'made' (fecit). At times this denotes the individual whose hands produced the work, but it can equally refer to the person whose donation made the undertaking possible. Here twenty-four scholars examine secular and religious art from across medieval Europe to demonstrate that a range of studies is of interest not just for a particular time and place but because, from this range, overall conclusions can be drawn for the question of medieval art history as a whole.
Contributors are Mickey Abel, Glaire D. Anderson, Jane L. Carroll, Nicola Coldstream, María Elena Díez Jorge, Jaroslav Folda, Alexandra Gajewski, Loveday Lewes Gee, Melissa R. Katz, Katrin Kogman-Appel, Pierre Alain Mariaux, Therese Martin, Eileen McKiernan González, Rachel Moss, Jenifer Ní Ghrádaigh, Felipe Pereda, Annie Renoux, Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues, Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg, Stefanie Seeberg, Miriam Shadis, Ellen Shortell, Loretta Vandi, and Nancy L. Wicker."
Research Interests: Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Visual Studies, Art History, and 28 moreJewish Studies, Women's Studies, Medieval History, Women's History, Gender History, Medieval Studies, Visual Culture, Medieval, Jewish History, Medieval Islam, Medieval Women, Early Medieval History, Architectural History, Medieval Archaeology, Women and Gender Issues in Islam, Islamic' Architecture, Medieval Europe, Queenship (Medieval History), History of Art, Social History, Scandinavian history, Gender Archaeology, Medieval Art, Medieval Jewish History, Medieval Islamic History, Jewish Cultural Studies, Scandinavian art history, and Jewish Art History
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Open access link to full article in PDF: This study takes a renewed look at Urraca of León-Castilla (c. 1080-1126) through the medium of five different coin types with her ‘portrait’ that were produced over the course of her... more
Open access link to full article in PDF:
This study takes a renewed look at Urraca of León-Castilla (c. 1080-1126) through the medium of five different coin types with her ‘portrait’ that were produced over the course of her seventeen-year reign. In the past decade, heretofore unknown coins and new examples of little studied coins have been published by numismatists, and together they shed fresh light on the complex picture of Urraca as reigning queen. The present study assesses the visual and material evidence together with textual sources to understand the reasons behind the minting of multiple portrait-types coins. In doing so, Urraca both broke with the past and established a pattern that would be followed by her successors. I argue that Urraca’s portrait coins allow us more direct access to her ambitions as ruler, without the intermediation of father, son, or consorts, in a way that an examination of the textual sources alone has not been able to achieve.
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004683754_016
This study takes a renewed look at Urraca of León-Castilla (c. 1080-1126) through the medium of five different coin types with her ‘portrait’ that were produced over the course of her seventeen-year reign. In the past decade, heretofore unknown coins and new examples of little studied coins have been published by numismatists, and together they shed fresh light on the complex picture of Urraca as reigning queen. The present study assesses the visual and material evidence together with textual sources to understand the reasons behind the minting of multiple portrait-types coins. In doing so, Urraca both broke with the past and established a pattern that would be followed by her successors. I argue that Urraca’s portrait coins allow us more direct access to her ambitions as ruler, without the intermediation of father, son, or consorts, in a way that an examination of the textual sources alone has not been able to achieve.
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004683754_016
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https://doi.org/10.3989/aearte.2021.12 The remains of a sparkling, gold-like substance on medieval rock crystal chess pieces at the Cathedral of Ourense and on the seal of Emessindis at the Cathedral of Girona are published here for the... more
https://doi.org/10.3989/aearte.2021.12
The remains of a sparkling, gold-like substance on medieval rock crystal chess pieces at the Cathedral of Ourense and on the seal of Emessindis at the Cathedral of Girona are published here for the first time. It will be shown that analysis of these unexpected discoveries opens new avenues for investigating the ownership of cross-cultural objects in Iberia, especially by ruling women, during the central Middle Ages
The remains of a sparkling, gold-like substance on medieval rock crystal chess pieces at the Cathedral of Ourense and on the seal of Emessindis at the Cathedral of Girona are published here for the first time. It will be shown that analysis of these unexpected discoveries opens new avenues for investigating the ownership of cross-cultural objects in Iberia, especially by ruling women, during the central Middle Ages
Research Interests: Art History, Women's History, Medieval Studies, Medieval Iberian History, Early Medieval History, and 12 morePower and Authority in the Middle Ages, Medieval Europe, History of Art, Medieval Art, Medieval Islamic History, History of Chess, Medieval Spain, Medieval Iberia, Medieval History of Spain, early Middle Ages, Middle Ages, and Global Art History
In this methodological essay, I present the fruits of research carried out by an interdisciplinary group of scholars 2016–2018, which centered on the Treasury of San Isidoro de León, while also introducing the more wide-ranging... more
In this methodological essay, I present the fruits of research carried out by an interdisciplinary group of scholars 2016–2018, which centered on the Treasury of San Isidoro de León, while also introducing the more wide-ranging comparative work going forward 2019–2022 under the auspices of a reconfigured team. By republishing our studies in open access, we aim to reach a larger community of scholars; our longer-term goal is to move further out into the consciousness of modern society, locating for an interested general public the Leonese collection within its broader historical framework and holding it up for comparison with other significant sites. Cross-cultural luxury objects oblige a shift in the direction of our historical gaze, bringing into clear focus the many collaborations across faiths and the repeated examples of protagonism by women during the central Middle Ages.
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By focusing on San Isidoro de León in the central Middle Ages, this study investigates the multiple meanings behind the presence of objects from other cultures in a royal-monastic treasury, suggesting a reconsideration of the paths by... more
By focusing on San Isidoro de León in the central Middle Ages, this study investigates the multiple meanings behind the presence of objects from other cultures in a royal-monastic treasury, suggesting a reconsideration of the paths by which such pieces arrived. The development of the Isidoran collection is reexamined through a close analysis of a charter recording the 1063 donation together with early thirteenth-century writings by Lucas of Tuy. Documentary evidence is further weighed against visual analysis and technical studies of several key pieces from the medieval collection. In particular, the Beatitudes Casket (now at the Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid) is singled out to demonstrate how art historical, epigraphic, and historical research come together with carbon-14 testing, revealing that this object was assembled in a very different moment from those traditionally assumed.
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The medieval Commentary on the Apocalypse by Beatus of Liébana, with twenty-nine surviving examples that extend from a single page to over 300 folios, is an illustrated genre spanning more than three centuries. Although the color-filled... more
The medieval Commentary on the Apocalypse by Beatus of Liébana, with twenty-nine surviving examples that extend from a single page to over 300 folios, is an illustrated genre spanning more than three centuries. Although the color-filled manuscripts have been well studied by scholars from a range of fields, the Beatus tradition has never been analyzed from a gendered perspective. In the present article, therefore, the authors investigate this apocalyptic genre as a whole in order to recover the memory of women’s involvement with the Beatus Commentaries. To do so, we apply a spatial analysis to female patronage and practices, and to the most telling examples of female representations within, demonstrating that a gendered lens brings to the fore evidence of originality in medieval manuscripts while restoring a more complete and balanced understanding of the Beatus tradition overall.
Research Interests: Art History, Women's Studies, Medieval History, Women's History, Medieval Studies, and 10 moreManuscript Studies, Medieval Art, Visual Arts, Manuscripts (Medieval Studies), Medieval illuminated manuscripts, Early Medieval Art, Women and Culture, Women and Gender Studies, Medieval Art, Illuminated Manuscripts, Medieval History, and Illuminated manuscripts
The present study treats the close relationship between certain royal women and the exercise of power by way of artistic and architectural patronage during the central Middle Ages. It further traces connections to the actions of... more
The present study treats the close relationship between certain royal women and the exercise of power by way of artistic and architectural patronage during the central Middle Ages. It further traces connections to the actions of contemporary royal women from other territories, in an intent to clarify the similarities and differences among them. I will show that the power of queens and infantas is expressed through objects and
buildings as instruments that demonstrate authority as a way of creating potestas. Both the infantazgo and the dominae who ruled it, along with the works that can be associated with this inheritance, form the central axis of this article.
buildings as instruments that demonstrate authority as a way of creating potestas. Both the infantazgo and the dominae who ruled it, along with the works that can be associated with this inheritance, form the central axis of this article.
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Now freely available through December 2018: https://tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03044181.2015.1107751 One of the challenges faced by medieval art historians is to recognise the diverse roles women played in matters of medieval... more
Now freely available through December 2018: https://tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03044181.2015.1107751
One of the challenges faced by medieval art historians is to
recognise the diverse roles women played in matters of medieval
art, while seeing also the impact of society on their artistic
choices. By tracing how one work of art can open new critical
insights into another, and how disparate objects and buildings – if
thought through together – can illuminate our understanding of
the Middle Ages overall, we can discern the multi-layered stages
of the creative process. The term ‘makers of art’ is proposed as a
shift away from the commonly used words – artist, patron,
recipient – and the preconceived notions about the individuals
who fulfilled those roles. The paper also lays out a framework –
‘the margin to act’ – for the investigation of the multi-levelled
interactions of women with medieval art and, ultimately, the
writing of history.
One of the challenges faced by medieval art historians is to
recognise the diverse roles women played in matters of medieval
art, while seeing also the impact of society on their artistic
choices. By tracing how one work of art can open new critical
insights into another, and how disparate objects and buildings – if
thought through together – can illuminate our understanding of
the Middle Ages overall, we can discern the multi-layered stages
of the creative process. The term ‘makers of art’ is proposed as a
shift away from the commonly used words – artist, patron,
recipient – and the preconceived notions about the individuals
who fulfilled those roles. The paper also lays out a framework –
‘the margin to act’ – for the investigation of the multi-levelled
interactions of women with medieval art and, ultimately, the
writing of history.
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Around the turn of the twelfth century, a new iconography arose in northern Spanish and southern French lands. The sculpted image of a naked crossbowman, crouching to arm his weapon, flourished briefly and then vanished within a few... more
Around the turn of the twelfth century, a new iconography arose in northern Spanish and southern French lands. The sculpted image of a naked crossbowman, crouching to arm his weapon, flourished briefly and then vanished within a few decades. The crossbow was just coming into common usage at this time; with little training, it could be wielded by peasants or women to defeat mounted knights and thus had the potential to destabilize social structures. I analyze the display of the Romanesque crouching crossbowman to understand this heretofore unexamined iconography, investigating the reasons behind its initial conception, layered content, and rapid disappearance. Even more than the textual references to crossbows that have come down to us, I contend that visual analysis, together with an understanding of the specific historical context that encompassed the short life of this iconography, enables us to decipher the multiple meanings behind the image.
Research Interests: Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Medieval Islam, Medieval Church History, Spain (Mediterranean Studies), and 14 moreIslamic History, Muslim Spain, Romanesque Art, Medieval Art, Spain (History), Medieval Spain, Spain, Romanesque architecture, Medieval History of Spain, Romanesque Sculpture, Medieval Weapons and Equipment, Early Medieval Weapons and Warfare, Romanesque and pre-Romanesque sculpture, and Literature and Culture In Medieval Spain
in En el principio: Génesis de la Catedral Románica de Santiago de Compostela. Contexto, construcción y programa iconográfico, ed. J.L. Senra (Pontevedra, 2014).... more
in En el principio: Génesis de la Catedral Románica de Santiago de Compostela. Contexto, construcción y programa iconográfico, ed. J.L. Senra (Pontevedra, 2014).
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Research Interests: Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Medieval Church History, Medieval Archaeology, Romanesque Art, and 9 moreMasonry Buildings, Medieval Art, Romanesque architecture, Mason's marks, Stereotomy, Descriptive Geometry, History of Masonry Architecture, Romanesque Sculpture, Masonry, Romanesque sculpture – Romanesque architecture – 3D reconstruction hypothesis – Tools and technics in romanesque workshops – Methodology, and Masonry structures
Research Interests: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Medieval History, Women's History, Medieval Studies, and 21 moreMedieval urban history, Medieval Islam, Medieval Iberian History, Medieval Women, Medieval Church History, Early Medieval History, Medieval Archaeology, Women, Early Medieval Ireland, Medieval Scandinavia, Women in Art, Women and Gender Issues in Islam, Medieval Europe, Medieval England, Medieval France, Medieval Italy, Medieval Art, Medieval Islamic History, Women and Work, Medieval Germany, and Medieval Spain
Contemporaneous written evidence makes it clear that medieval rulers were aware of the impression that their dwellings caused and, indeed, that they took deliberate steps to reinforce the visual impact on the viewers. In this study, I... more
Contemporaneous written evidence makes it clear that medieval rulers were aware of the impression that their dwellings caused and, indeed, that they took deliberate steps to reinforce the visual impact on the viewers. In this study, I will focus on some of the more extensive twelfth‐century descriptions of two palaces from Christian lands of Iberia – one episcopal (Santiago de Compostela), one royal (León) – within an examination of the roles that these buildings played in buttressing their patrons’ power. Two chronicles, the Historia Compostellana (c. 1100–40) and the Chronica Adefonsi Imperatoris (c. 1145) present the rulers’ palaces as an essential setting for their authority; these accounts are rounded out by hagiographical and literary sources, along with an archaeological analysis of some of the elements of the standing architecture. In addition to aiding in the study of a building through its multiple uses – both practical and symbolic – written descriptions allow us a glimpse of the meanings that medieval palaces had for their patrons and the viewing public.
Research Interests: Art History, Architecture, Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Medieval, and 12 moreMedieval Iberian History, Medieval Europe, Patronage (History), Medieval Spanish Literature, Medieval Art, Patronage (Medieval Studies), Medieval Spain, Gothic architecture, Romanesque architecture, Medieval Chronicles, Palaces and City Archaeology, and Spanish Medieval Chronicles
The present study offers an examination of two aspects of the Leonese infantazgo from the end of the eleventh century and the first half of the twelfth: the supposed obligation of the infantas to reject matrimonial ties in order to... more
The present study offers an examination of two aspects of the Leonese infantazgo from the end of the eleventh century and the first half of the twelfth: the supposed obligation of the infantas to reject matrimonial ties in order to possess the infantazgo and the manner in which this inheritance contributed to women's architectural patronage, specifically at the royal church of San Isidoro in León. This research leads to the conclusion that the infantazgo was not a monolithic institution, as it has sometimes been seen. Rather, it was shared and divided among all the women of the royal family, who apparently had a fair amount of autonomy when it came to giving out income and donating their property, even to the point of alienating
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This study argues that medieval memory resides not only in burials but also in royal palaces. The so-called Pantheon at San Isidoro in León provides the ideal example through which to address such a question, as this single architectural... more
This study argues that medieval memory resides not only in burials but also in royal palaces. The so-called Pantheon at San Isidoro in León provides the ideal example through which to address such a question, as this single architectural space encompassed multiple purposes and meanings. While the functions and uses of the building shifted during the eleventh and twelfth centuries according to the changing needs of the times and desires of the patrons, an undercurrent of memory was common throughout.
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The Romanesque church of San Isidoro in León holds a place of great significance in the history of art because of its participation in the most important sculptural trends around the turn of the 12th century. While the portals of the... more
The Romanesque church of San Isidoro in León holds a place of great significance in the history of art because of its participation in the most important sculptural trends around the turn of the 12th century. While the portals of the south facade and transept have been the object of scholarly attention, the lost north transept portal had not been studied until now. Thanks to a research campaign in March of 2005, we can propose a possible reconstruction of the Romanesque tympanum within the decorative scheme of the north transept facade.
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Registration now open! This online, bilingual English-Spanish course is tailored for the needs of graduate students interested in the different types of detailed analysis of a wide range of primary sources, both written and material. The... more
Registration now open! This online, bilingual English-Spanish course is tailored for the needs of graduate students interested in the different types of detailed analysis of a wide range of primary sources, both written and material. The researchers of the Interdisciplinary Platform Social & Cultural History of the Mediterranean (MEDhis, https://pti-medhis.csic.es/), together with a group of international researchers, offer the third edition of this course. This year the theme revolves around the issue of self-representation, understood in its broadest sense as a strategy aimed at highlighting authority. In the written sources, literal descriptions of identity will be analyzed in order to reveal the strategies designed to establish influence over the interlocutor (reader). Special attention will be paid to religious controversy, prologues to translations, scholarly debates, and inquisitorial documents. As for the material and visual sources, objects and representations that reveal the intentionality of the promoters towards the various viewing publics will be studied. From a detailed reading of the primary sources, the methodological tools designed to answer the following questions will be discussed: how to approach primary sources with a critical eye? How to contextualize the message they give us? What are the theoretical frameworks suitable for researching these artifacts in a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary way? How to evaluate historical “truth” of sources when written and material texts contradict each other?
Research Interests: Medieval History, Medieval Iberian History, Early Modern Europe, Medieval Europe, Medieval Italy, and 12 moreMedieval Art, Medieval Islamic History, Medieval Spain, Early modern Spain, Medieval Art History, Medieval Spain and North Africa, Medieval History of Spain, Jews of Medieval Spain, "Conversos" in Medieval Iberia and Early Modern Spain, Medieval Southern Italy and Sicily, Historia Del Arte Medieval, and Literature and Culture In Medieval Spain
Este curso está dirigido a estudiantes de posgrado interesados en los diferentes tipos de análisis pormenorizado que se pueden hacer con un amplio rango de fuentes primarias, tanto escritas como materiales. Después de la calurosa acogida... more
Este curso está dirigido a estudiantes de posgrado interesados en los diferentes tipos de análisis pormenorizado que se pueden hacer con un amplio rango de fuentes primarias, tanto escritas como materiales. Después de la calurosa acogida que tuvieron las dos ediciones anteriores del curso (CCHS-CSIC, 2017 y 2018), las investigadoras de la Plataforma Temática Interdisciplinar Social & Cultural History of the Mediterranean (MEDhis, https://pti-medhis.csic.es/), junto con un grupo de investigadores nacionales e internacionales, ofrecen la tercera edición del curso. Este año el tema girará en torno a la cuestión de la autorepresentación, entendida en su sentido más amplio como una estrategia dirigida a remarcar la autoridad. En las fuentes escritas se analizarán descripciones literales de identidad en clave de desvelar las estrategias para establecer influencia sobre el interlocutor (lector). Se prestará especial atención a los textos de controversia religiosa, prólogos a traducciones, debates científicos y legajos inquisitoriales. En cuanto a las fuentes materiales y visuales, se estudiarán objetos o representaciones que descubren la intencionalidad de los promotores/as hacia los varios públicos receptores de las imágenes. A partir de una lectura detallada de las fuentes primarias se debatirán las herramientas metodológicas diseñadas para responder a las siguientes preguntas: ¿cómo acercarse a las fuentes primarias con una mirada crítica? ¿cómo contextualizar el mensaje que nos dejan? ¿cuáles son los marcos teóricos para investigar estos artefactos de forma transcultural e interdisciplinar? ¿cómo evaluar “la verdad” histórica de las fuentes cuando los textos escritos y materiales se contradicen?
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El objetivo principal de este curso-taller es profundizar en teoría y prácticas metodológicas para la investigación de fuentes primarias. El título del curso hace hincapié en la idea de lectura, entendida en un sentido amplio, desde una... more
El objetivo principal de este curso-taller es profundizar en teoría y prácticas metodológicas para la investigación de fuentes primarias. El título del curso hace hincapié en la idea de lectura, entendida en un sentido amplio, desde una óptica interdisciplinar. Se prestará especial atención a los objetos híbridos, que han padecido cambios, sobre todo los que han cambiado de utilidad por encontrarse en contextos diferentes. Asimismo, se ofrecerá una lectura pormenorizada de fuentes escritas que hablan de conversión en el sentido religioso y cultural.
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El objetivo principal de este curso-taller es profundizar en teoría y prácticas metodológicas para la investigación de fuentes primarias. El título del curso hace hincapié en la idea de lectura, entendida en un sentido amplio, desde una... more
El objetivo principal de este curso-taller es profundizar en teoría y prácticas metodológicas para la investigación de fuentes primarias. El título del curso hace hincapié en la idea de lectura, entendida en un sentido amplio, desde una óptica interdisciplinar. Se prestará especial atención a los objetos híbridos, que han padecido cambios, sobre todo los que han cambiado de utilidad por encontrarse en contextos diferentes. Asimismo, se ofrecerá una lectura pormenorizada de fuentes escritas que hablan de conversión en el sentido religioso o cultural.
A lo largo de las sesiones se examinará una serie de artefactos para mostrar al alumnado cómo construir estudios de caso basados en diferentes formas de análisis de fuentes primarias. Asimismo se darán a conocer las líneas de investigación llevadas a cabo en los ámbitos de la Historia Medieval y Moderna, Filología e Historia del Arte, en torno a los complejos procesos de cambio, conversión y adaptación que tienen lugar en el Mediterráneo durante la Edad Media y principios de la Edad Moderna. Los casos en cuestión serán presentados con especial énfasis en la metodología empleada que requiere enfoques interdisciplinares, entre historia, filologías y estudios culturales. Nótese que las sesiones del curso tendrán lugar en varias instituciones diferentes, lo cual permitirá proporcionar a los investigadores en formación algunas herramientas prácticas sobre dónde buscar las fuentes para su trabajo académico. A lo largo del curso los alumnos aprenderán varios procedimientos para el análisis de las fuentes primarias, tanto escritas como materiales.
A lo largo de las sesiones se examinará una serie de artefactos para mostrar al alumnado cómo construir estudios de caso basados en diferentes formas de análisis de fuentes primarias. Asimismo se darán a conocer las líneas de investigación llevadas a cabo en los ámbitos de la Historia Medieval y Moderna, Filología e Historia del Arte, en torno a los complejos procesos de cambio, conversión y adaptación que tienen lugar en el Mediterráneo durante la Edad Media y principios de la Edad Moderna. Los casos en cuestión serán presentados con especial énfasis en la metodología empleada que requiere enfoques interdisciplinares, entre historia, filologías y estudios culturales. Nótese que las sesiones del curso tendrán lugar en varias instituciones diferentes, lo cual permitirá proporcionar a los investigadores en formación algunas herramientas prácticas sobre dónde buscar las fuentes para su trabajo académico. A lo largo del curso los alumnos aprenderán varios procedimientos para el análisis de las fuentes primarias, tanto escritas como materiales.
Research Interests: Latin Literature, Medieval Literature, Medieval History, Medieval Iberian Literature, Medieval Studies, and 21 moreIberian Studies, Hebrew Bible, Medieval Islam, Medieval Iberian History, Medieval Women, Early Medieval Archaeology, Medieval Church History, Medieval Archaeology, Byzantine Studies, Islamic Studies, Byzantine History, Medieval Architecture, Islamic History, Medieval Art, Medieval Islamic History, Early and Medieval Islamic Art and Architecture, Biblical Hebrew (Languages And Linguistics), Medieval Spain, Medieval Art History, Historia Medieval, and Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
El curso se centrara en el estudio de casos concretos donde los artefactos culturales cobran especial protagonismo como el espacio de encuentro entre diferentes culturas, religiones y tradiciones. Para ello se presentaran fuentes de... more
El curso se centrara en el estudio de casos concretos donde los artefactos culturales cobran especial protagonismo como el espacio de encuentro entre diferentes culturas, religiones y tradiciones. Para ello se presentaran fuentes de diversa índole y procedencia, tanto escritas como materiales, que han suscitado diferentes preguntas en el proceso de investigación. Estos interrogantes se plantearan con dos fines: por un lado, servirán para relacionar de manera transdisciplinar diferentes aspectos de la investigación sobre los dichos artefactos. Por ejemplo, cómo interpretar la circulación de un manuscrito para estudiar los contactos entre los cristianos y los musulmanes en la Edad Media o cómo leer las glosas marginales de textos religiosos para reconstruir la historia intelectual de un texto. Por otro lado, el curso aspira a proporcionar herramientas practicas para el estudio transdisciplinar de todo tipo de fuentes.
Para más información sobre las diferentes sesiones, fechas y detalles sobre la inscripción, es posible consultar el díptico adjunto y la página web
http://cchs.csic.es/es/textosobjetos
Para más información sobre las diferentes sesiones, fechas y detalles sobre la inscripción, es posible consultar el díptico adjunto y la página web
http://cchs.csic.es/es/textosobjetos
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Research Interests: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Medieval, and 23 moreMedieval urban history, Medieval Islam, Medieval Iberian History, Medieval Women, Early Medieval History, Medieval Archaeology, Early Medieval Ireland, Women and Gender Issues in Islam, Medieval Europe, Medieval England, Medieval France, Medieval Architecture, Gender and religion (Women s Studies), Medieval Italy, Medieval Art, Medieval Islamic History, Manuscripts (Medieval Studies), Medieval illuminated manuscripts, Early and Medieval Islamic Art and Architecture, Medieval Spain, Mediaeval Cult of Relics and Saints, Mediaeval History, and Medieval Islamic
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MUSEO ARQUEOLÓGICO NACIONAL, MADRID
SALA DE CONFERENCIAS
4 y 5 DE OCTUBRE DE 2017
SALA DE CONFERENCIAS
4 y 5 DE OCTUBRE DE 2017
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Registration is now open, https://ica.princeton.edu/the-medieval-iberian-treasury-in-the-context-of-muslim-christian-interchange/ 19-20 May 2017 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building, Room 399 Princeton University International and U.S.... more
Registration is now open, https://ica.princeton.edu/the-medieval-iberian-treasury-in-the-context-of-muslim-christian-interchange/
19-20 May 2017
Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building, Room 399
Princeton University
International and U.S. scholars will gather to examine the near-intact monastic treasury of San Isidoro de León in northern Spain as a springing point for larger questions about sumptuary collections and their patrons across Europe and the Mediterranean in the central Middle Ages. Topics of inquiry include Islamic law and sumptuary production, Christian manuscripts and metalwork, patronage and royal studies, identity and gender studies, and cultural and political history. The diversity of questions and perspectives addressed by the speakers will shed light on the nature of León as a paradigmatic treasury collection, as well as on the broad efficacy of multidisciplinary study for the Middle Ages.
There is no charge to attend but spaces are limited. Please register at https://ica.princeton.edu/the-medieval-iberian-treasury-in-the-context-of-muslim-christian-interchange/
19-20 May 2017
Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building, Room 399
Princeton University
International and U.S. scholars will gather to examine the near-intact monastic treasury of San Isidoro de León in northern Spain as a springing point for larger questions about sumptuary collections and their patrons across Europe and the Mediterranean in the central Middle Ages. Topics of inquiry include Islamic law and sumptuary production, Christian manuscripts and metalwork, patronage and royal studies, identity and gender studies, and cultural and political history. The diversity of questions and perspectives addressed by the speakers will shed light on the nature of León as a paradigmatic treasury collection, as well as on the broad efficacy of multidisciplinary study for the Middle Ages.
There is no charge to attend but spaces are limited. Please register at https://ica.princeton.edu/the-medieval-iberian-treasury-in-the-context-of-muslim-christian-interchange/
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Coincidiendo con la inauguración en el Museo del Prado de la primera exposición monográfica dedicada a una artista, la amberina Clara Peeters (h.1594-h.1659) este seminario pretende reflexionar sobre el papel de las mujeres en el arte de... more
Coincidiendo con la inauguración en el Museo del Prado de la primera exposición monográfica dedicada a una artista, la amberina Clara Peeters (h.1594-h.1659) este seminario pretende reflexionar sobre el papel de las mujeres en el arte de la Edad Moderna. Excluídas del discurso canónico de la Historia del Arte, la publicación del pionero “Why have there been no great women artists?” de Linda Nochlin (Art News, 1971) supuso el inicio de los primeros estudios y exposiciones dedicados a la autoría artística y patronazgo femeninos. Cuarenta y cuatro años después de la publicación de este texto fundacional, el seminario quiere cuestionar la pertinencia de este planteamiento: ¿es todavía necesario reflexionar sobre la relación entre el arte/la Historia del arte y las mujeres? y para hacerlo ¿sigue siendo mayoritario o debería serlo el enfoque y metodología de la historia del arte feminista? Al igual que en la década de 1970 la historia del arte feminista fue una consecuencia lógica de la historia social y generó a su vez nuevos campos de trabajo, cabría plantearse cómo abordar hoy el estudio del arte antiguo desde una perspectiva eminentemente “de género” –en la acepción clásica del término– y el lugar que en ello ocuparían los estudios culturales, religiosos o las nuevas humanidades, algunos de los campos más prometedores en los que insertar los estudios de esta temática en la era postcolonial.
El seminario se inicia con una sesión que pretende servir de recapitulación sobre la producción historiográfica emanada de esa revisión feminista del canon de la historia del arte generada por el artículo de Nochlin. Las sesiones posteriores se estructuran en torno a los tres ejes allí establecidos: autoría artística, patronazgo y representación femenina, centrados mayoritariamente, aunque no de manera exclusiva, en ejemplos de las colecciones del Museo Nacional del Prado. Una sesión única se dedica al gran referente femenino simbólico en el Occidente medieval y moderno: la Virgen María.
Cada una de estas sesiones proporcionará la oportunidad de ver como estos “viejos” temas son susceptibles de abordarse desde perspectivas de análisis y metodológicas nuevas. Al hilo tanto de estas como de la tradición historiográfica, la última clase pretende poner sobre la mesa posibles futuros temas de estudio.
Plazo de inscripción: del 27 de junio al 19 de septiembre de 2016
Fechas de celebración: martes desde el 4 de octubre al 13 de diciembre de 2016.
Horario: 16.00-19.30 hs.
Más información, programa e inscripciones: https://www.museodelprado.es/aprende/escuela-del-prado/seminarios/cultura-artistica-mujeres
El seminario se inicia con una sesión que pretende servir de recapitulación sobre la producción historiográfica emanada de esa revisión feminista del canon de la historia del arte generada por el artículo de Nochlin. Las sesiones posteriores se estructuran en torno a los tres ejes allí establecidos: autoría artística, patronazgo y representación femenina, centrados mayoritariamente, aunque no de manera exclusiva, en ejemplos de las colecciones del Museo Nacional del Prado. Una sesión única se dedica al gran referente femenino simbólico en el Occidente medieval y moderno: la Virgen María.
Cada una de estas sesiones proporcionará la oportunidad de ver como estos “viejos” temas son susceptibles de abordarse desde perspectivas de análisis y metodológicas nuevas. Al hilo tanto de estas como de la tradición historiográfica, la última clase pretende poner sobre la mesa posibles futuros temas de estudio.
Plazo de inscripción: del 27 de junio al 19 de septiembre de 2016
Fechas de celebración: martes desde el 4 de octubre al 13 de diciembre de 2016.
Horario: 16.00-19.30 hs.
Más información, programa e inscripciones: https://www.museodelprado.es/aprende/escuela-del-prado/seminarios/cultura-artistica-mujeres
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Research Interests: Art History, Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Iberian Studies, Medieval Islam, and 11 moreMedieval Iberian History, Spanish History, Medieval Church History, Medieval Archaeology, History of Art, Church History, Medieval Art, Spanish Art, Medieval Iberia, Historia Medieval, and Art and Art History
https://elpais.com/cultura/2022-01-06/la-historia-de-dos-condesas-cristianas-de-la-edad-media-se-esconde-en-unas-piezas-de-ajedrez.html Una investigadora del CSIC persigue las conexiones entre las nobles Ilduara Eiriz y Ermesinda de... more
https://elpais.com/cultura/2022-01-06/la-historia-de-dos-condesas-cristianas-de-la-edad-media-se-esconde-en-unas-piezas-de-ajedrez.html
Una investigadora del CSIC persigue las conexiones entre las nobles Ilduara Eiriz y Ermesinda de Carcasona a través de objetos personales de origen musulmán que han sobrevivido en tesoros eclésiásticos.
Una investigadora del CSIC persigue las conexiones entre las nobles Ilduara Eiriz y Ermesinda de Carcasona a través de objetos personales de origen musulmán que han sobrevivido en tesoros eclésiásticos.
Research Interests: Art History, Women's Studies, Women's History, Medieval Studies, Iberian Studies, and 11 moreMedieval Iberian History, Early Medieval History, Spain (Mediterranean Studies), Medieval Europe, History of Art, Medieval Art, Medieval Islamic History, Spain (History), Medieval Spain, Medieval History of Spain, and Women's and Gender Studies
https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0b1mn5r/the-legendary-miracle-rings-of-ourense
A journalist's take on the discovery of storied bishops' rings at the Galician monastery of Santo Estevo, from novel to scientific research.
A journalist's take on the discovery of storied bishops' rings at the Galician monastery of Santo Estevo, from novel to scientific research.
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https://www.rtve.es/noticias/20211021/investigadoras-do-csic-estudan-as-pezas-medievais-mais-valiosas-da-catedral-ourense/2198681.shtml Investigadoras do CSIC estudan as pezas medievais máis valiosas da catedral de Ourense Oito figuras... more
https://www.rtve.es/noticias/20211021/investigadoras-do-csic-estudan-as-pezas-medievais-mais-valiosas-da-catedral-ourense/2198681.shtml
Investigadoras do CSIC estudan as pezas medievais máis valiosas da catedral de Ourense Oito figuras de xadrez de cristal de rocha son parte do tesouro de San Rosendo.
Investigadoras do CSIC estudan as pezas medievais máis valiosas da catedral de Ourense Oito figuras de xadrez de cristal de rocha son parte do tesouro de San Rosendo.
Research Interests: Art History, Medieval Studies, Medieval Iberian History, Early Medieval History, Medieval Europe, and 8 moreHistory of Art, Medieval Art, Medieval Islamic History, Medieval Spain, Medieval History of Spain, Historia y Teoria del Arte y la Arquitectura, Global Art History, and Historia Y Teoría Del Arte
El equipo de investigadoras del CSIC, lideradas por Therese Martin, manipula el tesoro de la catedral de Ourense.
El equipo de investigadoras del CSIC, lideradas por Therese Martin, manipula el tesoro de la catedral de Ourense.
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Diario de León, 5 February 2017
Research Interests: High Middle Ages, Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Jewish History, Medieval Iberian History, and 9 morePower and Authority in the Middle Ages, Portugal (History), Medieval Spain, Kingdom of Castile in the Middle Ages, Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations in the Middle Ages, Late Medieval History, Middle Ages, Medieval Monasticism, and Historia Medieval
Special issue:
Performing Death: Gendering Grief, Ritual, and Memorialization in Late Medieval Iberia
Guest editors: Núria Jornet-Benito and Nuria Silleras-Fernandez
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ribs20/current
Performing Death: Gendering Grief, Ritual, and Memorialization in Late Medieval Iberia
Guest editors: Núria Jornet-Benito and Nuria Silleras-Fernandez
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ribs20/current
Research Interests: Medieval History, Women's History, Medieval Studies, Jewish History, Medieval Iberian History, and 14 moreMedieval Women, History Portuguese and Spanish, Queenship (Medieval History), Catalan History, Medieval Art, Medieval Jewish History, Portugal (History), Medieval Spain, Women and Gender Studies, Queenship in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Medieval Iberia, Historia Medieval, Queenship, and Medieval Women and Gender
Research Interests: Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Portuguese Medieval History, Medieval Iberian History, History Portuguese and Spanish, and 10 moreEarly Medieval Archaeology, Early Medieval History, Medieval Archaeology, Medieval Spain and North Africa, Medieval Coins, Medieval Iberia, Medieval History of Spain, Weather, Spanish Medieval Chronicles, and Galicia and Portugal Medieval History
Critical cluster: Processions in Early Medieval Iberia
Research Interests: Musicology, Medieval Literature, Medieval History, Medieval Iberian Literature, Medieval Studies, and 15 moreJewish History, Medieval Islam, Medieval Iberian History, Early Medieval Archaeology, Early Medieval History, Medieval Archaeology, Medieval Architecture, Medieval Art, Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula, Medieval Islamic History, Manuscripts (Medieval Studies), Codicology of medieval manuscripts, Medieval illuminated manuscripts, Jewish Art History, and Historia Medieval
Research Interests: History, Archaeology, Art History, Medieval History, Medieval Studies, and 15 moreMedieval Islam, Medieval Iberian History, Early Medieval Archaeology, Medieval Archaeology, Medieval Art, Medieval Islamic History, Early and Medieval Islamic Art and Architecture, Medieval Spain, Arqueología, Medieval Latin, Historia, Medieval Iberia, Historia del Arte, Me interesan todo lo relacionada con el mundo del arte y la arqueología, and Medieval Islamic
Freely available at https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/ribs20/collections/best-paper-prize-medieval-iberian-studies 2021 Best Article: “A critical review of the signs on Visigothic slates: challenging the Roman numerals premise” by... more
Freely available at https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/ribs20/collections/best-paper-prize-medieval-iberian-studies
2021 Best Article: “A critical review of the signs on Visigothic slates: challenging the Roman numerals premise” by Nerea Fernández Cadenas.
The article proposes an original thesis, supported by an important corpus of evidence. The author is well informed on context and comparanda, and challenges classic perspectives on the matter. The author also demonstrates an exceptional command of a variety of innovative methodological approaches, creatively used to link the study of archaeological devices with the social and economic history of the region. In doing so, the study overcomes a mere narrative approach, and opens the way for a wider social and economic understanding of the peasant communities from the early Middle Ages in Iberia.
JMIS Best Article Prize 2021 Committee:
María de la Paz Estévez, Wendy Davies, Carlos Heusch.
2021 Best Article: “A critical review of the signs on Visigothic slates: challenging the Roman numerals premise” by Nerea Fernández Cadenas.
The article proposes an original thesis, supported by an important corpus of evidence. The author is well informed on context and comparanda, and challenges classic perspectives on the matter. The author also demonstrates an exceptional command of a variety of innovative methodological approaches, creatively used to link the study of archaeological devices with the social and economic history of the region. In doing so, the study overcomes a mere narrative approach, and opens the way for a wider social and economic understanding of the peasant communities from the early Middle Ages in Iberia.
JMIS Best Article Prize 2021 Committee:
María de la Paz Estévez, Wendy Davies, Carlos Heusch.
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Medieval Galicia beyond the Camiño.
Edited by Simon Doubleday and Henrique Monteagudo.
Edited by Simon Doubleday and Henrique Monteagudo.
Research Interests: Medieval History, Galician Studies, Medieval Studies, Medieval, Iberian Studies, and 13 morePortuguese Medieval History, Medieval Iberian History, Medieval Archaeology, Viking Studies, Medieval Art, Medieval Spain, Galician language, Medieval Iberia, Vikings, Medieval Galicia, Historia Medieval, Galicia, and Galicia and Portugal Medieval History
Research Interests: Jewish Studies, Medieval History, Medieval Iberian Literature, Medieval Studies, Medieval Theology, and 14 morePortuguese Medieval History, Medieval Catalan Literature, Medieval Islam, Medieval Iberian History, Spanish History, Medieval Jewish History, Manuscripts (Medieval Studies), Medieval illuminated manuscripts, Medieval Spain, Medieval Magic, Islamic History and Muslim Civilization, Historia Medieval, Templars, and Muslim and Jewish History
freely available: https://bit.ly/3sNm8Sv 2020 Best Article Prize Winner: Alexandra Guerson and Dana Wessell Lightfoot, “A Tale of Two Tolranas: Jewish Women’s Agency and Conversion in Late Medieval Girona.” The article by Alexandra... more
freely available: https://bit.ly/3sNm8Sv
2020 Best Article Prize Winner: Alexandra Guerson and Dana Wessell Lightfoot, “A Tale of Two Tolranas: Jewish Women’s Agency and Conversion in Late Medieval Girona.”
The article by Alexandra Guerson and Dana Wessell Lightfoot, “A Tale of Two Tolranas,” focuses on a theme of particular interest in current historiography. Their research approaches two cases of Jewish women whose actions, between 1391 and 1421, illustrate how women could exercise agency as a means of determining their own lives. Divorce and conversion cases in Girona allow the authors to trace carefully the constellations of options by Jewish women in a time of increased pressure on the Jewish community, situated within a wide background of canon and Jewish law. Apart from the exciting insights and interesting cases that are presented in the paper, the internal structure is well developed and the available data is well presented and clearly explained, as are the objectives. Raising important issues and leading us to understand the role of (Jewish) women in controlling their own lives, this study shows the room for manoeuvre they had within and outside of their community. It is likely to inspire the development of further research on the many roles played women in medieval Iberian society.
2020 Prize Committee: Ross Brann, Cornell University, US; Catarina Tente, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal; Susanne Wittekind, Universität zu Köln, Germany.
2020 Best Article Prize Winner: Alexandra Guerson and Dana Wessell Lightfoot, “A Tale of Two Tolranas: Jewish Women’s Agency and Conversion in Late Medieval Girona.”
The article by Alexandra Guerson and Dana Wessell Lightfoot, “A Tale of Two Tolranas,” focuses on a theme of particular interest in current historiography. Their research approaches two cases of Jewish women whose actions, between 1391 and 1421, illustrate how women could exercise agency as a means of determining their own lives. Divorce and conversion cases in Girona allow the authors to trace carefully the constellations of options by Jewish women in a time of increased pressure on the Jewish community, situated within a wide background of canon and Jewish law. Apart from the exciting insights and interesting cases that are presented in the paper, the internal structure is well developed and the available data is well presented and clearly explained, as are the objectives. Raising important issues and leading us to understand the role of (Jewish) women in controlling their own lives, this study shows the room for manoeuvre they had within and outside of their community. It is likely to inspire the development of further research on the many roles played women in medieval Iberian society.
2020 Prize Committee: Ross Brann, Cornell University, US; Catarina Tente, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal; Susanne Wittekind, Universität zu Köln, Germany.
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Connecting the Dots: New Research Paradigms for Iberian Manuscripts as Material Objects, Special issue edited by Alicia Miguélez Cavero, Elsa De Luca, and Erika Loic
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ribs20/current
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ribs20/current
Research Interests: Digital Humanities, Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Iberian Studies, Portuguese Medieval History, and 10 moreMedieval Iberian History, Medieval Spanish Literature, Medieval Art, Codicology of medieval manuscripts, Medieval illuminated manuscripts, Portugal (History), Middle Ages, Manuscript studies, codicology, palaeography, medieval paper, Chaucer, circulation of texts and books, history of the book, electronic editing and digital humanities, Spanish Medieval and Golden Age Literature, and História de Portugal
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Research Interests: Medieval History, Spanish Literature (Peninsular), Medieval Studies, Iberian Studies, Medieval Iberian History, and 13 moreEarly Medieval History, Spain (Mediterranean Studies), Medieval Europe, Queenship (Medieval History), Medieval Islamic History, Spain (History), Visigothic Spain, Medieval Spain, Spain, Queenship in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Medieval History of Spain, Spanish Medieval and Golden Age Literature, and Medieval Islamic
Research Interests: Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Medieval Islam, Medieval Iberian History, Early Medieval Archaeology, and 12 moreEarly Medieval History, Al-Andalus, Queenship (Medieval History), Medieval Art, Medieval Islamic History, Al Andalus (Islamic History), Medieval Glasses (Archaeology), Medieval Spain, Queenship in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Medieval History of Spain, El Cid, and Medieval and Early Modern Archaeology
Research Interests: Medieval History, Material Culture Studies, Medieval Studies, Visual Culture, Iberian Studies, and 15 moreMedieval Iberian History, Medieval Archaeology, Spain (Mediterranean Studies), Medieval Art, Medieval Jewish History, Spain (History), Portugal (History), Medieval Spain, Spain, Medieval Iberia, Medieval Jewish Studies, Medieval Iconography, Jews of Medieval Spain, História de Portugal, and História De Arte Em Portugal
The Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2019 Best Article Prize is José Carvajal López, “After the Conquest: Ceramics and Migrations.” This article has been made freely available by Taylor &... more
The Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2019 Best Article Prize is José Carvajal López, “After the Conquest: Ceramics and Migrations.” This article has been made freely available by Taylor & Francis at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17546559.2019.1607972
The prize selection committee, made up of members of the JMIS Advisory Board, gave the following praise to Carvajal López’s scholarship:
While there were a number of articles that the selection committee agreed were excellent, the members came to a comparatively quick decision on José Carvajal López's "After the Conquest: Ceramics and Migrations." The committe felt that this article makes an important intervention in the history of post-conquest Iberia, and that it demonstrated both a nuanced analysis of material evidence and a sophisticated integration of this analysis within the contested historiography of early Islamic Iberia. Adding to all this is that it is eloquently written and makes archaeological work easily legible to those coming from other fields, it is clearly worthy of such recognition.
Prize selection committee:
Jerrilynn D. Dodds, Sarah Lawrence College
Jamie Wood, University of Lincoln
Justin Stearns, NYU Abu Dhabi (Chair)
For more information about the JMIS prize, as well as a list of previous winners, see https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/journal-prize-ah-ribs-journal-of-medieval-iberian-studies-best-article-prize/?utm_source=TFO&utm_medium=cms&utm_campaign=JOB08218
The prize selection committee, made up of members of the JMIS Advisory Board, gave the following praise to Carvajal López’s scholarship:
While there were a number of articles that the selection committee agreed were excellent, the members came to a comparatively quick decision on José Carvajal López's "After the Conquest: Ceramics and Migrations." The committe felt that this article makes an important intervention in the history of post-conquest Iberia, and that it demonstrated both a nuanced analysis of material evidence and a sophisticated integration of this analysis within the contested historiography of early Islamic Iberia. Adding to all this is that it is eloquently written and makes archaeological work easily legible to those coming from other fields, it is clearly worthy of such recognition.
Prize selection committee:
Jerrilynn D. Dodds, Sarah Lawrence College
Jamie Wood, University of Lincoln
Justin Stearns, NYU Abu Dhabi (Chair)
For more information about the JMIS prize, as well as a list of previous winners, see https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/journal-prize-ah-ribs-journal-of-medieval-iberian-studies-best-article-prize/?utm_source=TFO&utm_medium=cms&utm_campaign=JOB08218
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Includes the following articles: Rethinking the minimi of the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands in late antiquity by Ruth Pliego Quintana place-names as evidence of the Islamic conquest of Iberia by David Peterson Territories and... more
Includes the following articles:
Rethinking the minimi of the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands in late antiquity by Ruth Pliego
Quintana place-names as evidence of the Islamic conquest of Iberia by David Peterson
Territories and kingdom in the central Duero basin: the case of Dueñas (tenth–twelfth centuries) by Daniel Justo Sánchez & Iñaki Martín Viso
“Neither age nor sex sparing”: the Alvor massacre 1189, an anomaly in the Portuguese Reconquista? by Jonathan Wilson
Riots, reluctance, and reformers: the church in the Kingdom of Castile and the IV Lateran Council by Kyle C. Lincoln
Squire to the Moor King: Christian administrators for Muslim magnates in late medieval Murcia by Anthony Minnema
Glassmaking in medieval technical literature in the Iberian Peninsula by David J. Govantes-Edwards , Javier López Rider & Chloë Duckworth
Rethinking the minimi of the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands in late antiquity by Ruth Pliego
Quintana place-names as evidence of the Islamic conquest of Iberia by David Peterson
Territories and kingdom in the central Duero basin: the case of Dueñas (tenth–twelfth centuries) by Daniel Justo Sánchez & Iñaki Martín Viso
“Neither age nor sex sparing”: the Alvor massacre 1189, an anomaly in the Portuguese Reconquista? by Jonathan Wilson
Riots, reluctance, and reformers: the church in the Kingdom of Castile and the IV Lateran Council by Kyle C. Lincoln
Squire to the Moor King: Christian administrators for Muslim magnates in late medieval Murcia by Anthony Minnema
Glassmaking in medieval technical literature in the Iberian Peninsula by David J. Govantes-Edwards , Javier López Rider & Chloë Duckworth
Research Interests: Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Iberian Studies, Medieval Iberian History, Early Medieval Archaeology, and 15 moreEarly Medieval History, Medieval Archaeology, Spain (Mediterranean Studies), Glass (Archaeology), Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula, Medieval Islamic History, Spain (History), Portugal (History), Medieval Spain, Spain, Medieval Coins, Medieval Iberia, Medieval History of Spain, História de Portugal, and Literature and Culture In Medieval Spain
This new issue contains the following articles: Editorial Looking back, moving forward: a word from the incoming Editor-in-Chief Therese Martin Pages: 1-2 | DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2020.1711562 Original Articles An archaeology of “small... more
This new issue contains the following articles:
Editorial
Looking back, moving forward: a word from the incoming Editor-in-Chief
Therese Martin
Pages: 1-2 | DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2020.1711562
Original Articles
An archaeology of “small worlds”: social inequality in early medieval Iberian rural communities
Juan Antonio Quirós Castillo
Pages: 3-27 | DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2019.1678191
“Plange, Castella misera”: meaning and mourning at the royal abbey of Las Huelgas de Burgos in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries
Emily Henry
Pages: 28-43 | DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2019.1657235
“La Carne es la Tierra”: microcosmic Adam, cartographic Christ in the Libro de Alexandre
Fernando Riva
Pages: 44-69 | DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2020.1719283
Pilgrims from the land of sagas: Jacobean devotion in medieval Iceland
Santiago Barreiro
Pages: 70-83 | DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2019.1705373
The Portuguese eremitical Congregation of the Serra de Ossa: spatial analysis of the monastic settlements
Rolando Volzone & João Luís Fontes
Pages: 84-105 | DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2019.1652838
Dead horse, man-at-arms lost: cavalry and battle tactics in 15th century Castile
Ekaitz Etxeberria Gallastegi
Pages: 106-123 | DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2019.1629611
Editorial
Looking back, moving forward: a word from the incoming Editor-in-Chief
Therese Martin
Pages: 1-2 | DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2020.1711562
Original Articles
An archaeology of “small worlds”: social inequality in early medieval Iberian rural communities
Juan Antonio Quirós Castillo
Pages: 3-27 | DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2019.1678191
“Plange, Castella misera”: meaning and mourning at the royal abbey of Las Huelgas de Burgos in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries
Emily Henry
Pages: 28-43 | DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2019.1657235
“La Carne es la Tierra”: microcosmic Adam, cartographic Christ in the Libro de Alexandre
Fernando Riva
Pages: 44-69 | DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2020.1719283
Pilgrims from the land of sagas: Jacobean devotion in medieval Iceland
Santiago Barreiro
Pages: 70-83 | DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2019.1705373
The Portuguese eremitical Congregation of the Serra de Ossa: spatial analysis of the monastic settlements
Rolando Volzone & João Luís Fontes
Pages: 84-105 | DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2019.1652838
Dead horse, man-at-arms lost: cavalry and battle tactics in 15th century Castile
Ekaitz Etxeberria Gallastegi
Pages: 106-123 | DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2019.1629611
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Hybrid in-person/online. Register at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeIaEXtErDVg8FXSkPtAs5U9keMym_4GCqARWXgqgurfapZJw/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1&flr=0 Treasuries offer an opportunity for reading evidence over time, weighing the... more
Hybrid in-person/online. Register at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeIaEXtErDVg8FXSkPtAs5U9keMym_4GCqARWXgqgurfapZJw/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1&flr=0
Treasuries offer an opportunity for reading evidence over time, weighing the sometimes contradictory conclusions from textual or visual sources against technical analysis. This project delves into the medieval objects once gathered in ecclesiastical treasuries in order to highlight
long-distance and transcultural networks, shining a light on issues of broad relevance for scholarship and society today. We investigate multiple collections in the Iberian Peninsula and beyond, carrying out comparative research on medieval metalworks, ivories, hardstones, and textiles, along with their representations in miniatures and murals.
Research project: El tesoro medieval hispano en su contexto: colecciones, conexiones y representaciones en la península y más allá, IP Therese Martin, RTI2018-098615-B-I00, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación/ AEI
/10.13039/501100011033/ FEDER “Una manera de hacer Europa", 2019-2022.
Link to 2020 open access volume:
https://brill.com/view/title/57009
Treasuries offer an opportunity for reading evidence over time, weighing the sometimes contradictory conclusions from textual or visual sources against technical analysis. This project delves into the medieval objects once gathered in ecclesiastical treasuries in order to highlight
long-distance and transcultural networks, shining a light on issues of broad relevance for scholarship and society today. We investigate multiple collections in the Iberian Peninsula and beyond, carrying out comparative research on medieval metalworks, ivories, hardstones, and textiles, along with their representations in miniatures and murals.
Research project: El tesoro medieval hispano en su contexto: colecciones, conexiones y representaciones en la península y más allá, IP Therese Martin, RTI2018-098615-B-I00, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación/ AEI
/10.13039/501100011033/ FEDER “Una manera de hacer Europa", 2019-2022.
Link to 2020 open access volume:
https://brill.com/view/title/57009