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The grain market, short-term credit, and economic inequality in the Kingdom of Valencia. The towns of Cocentaina, and Castellón in the Fifteenth-Cent…
2018
Despite the predominance of small peasant farms in the Valencian countryside in the Late Middle Ages, large sections of the peasantry were forced to turn to the market to obtain cereals for consumption and sowing. Insufficient land and lack of liquidity caused by the seasonal cycle of crops made it necessary to use short-term credit, which was recorded in the court of local justice in the legal form of “obligacions”. The aim of this paper is to analyse the economic role of this credit market, identifying varieties of commercialised cereals, seasonality of purchases and payments, price trends and the socio-professional background of buyers (debtors) and sellers (creditors). Thus, we study ho…
L'esercizio del potere tra consenso e opposizione nella Sicilia del XIV secolo: il caso dei signori di Sciacca
2021
Il saggio delinea le strategie utilizzate dai Peralta, signori di Sciacca, nell’esercizio e nella gestione del potere, mettendo in luce le forme di consenso che questo generò. Ambito privilegiato di indagine è la corte dei Peralta e le famiglie che seguirono i conti nella ribellione e nella riconciliazione con la Corona, quelle che trassero vantaggi dalla familiarità con i vicari e quelle che, per la loro opposizione, furono ricompensate solo alla morte di Nicola. I riflessi del ruolo assunto dal conte di Caltabellotta sono evidenti anche nell’opera del ministro dei Minori in Sicilia Andrea de Pace di Sciacca che, alla fine del XIV secolo, dedicò il suo Viridarium principum proprio a Nicola…
La centralità della dimensione mediterranea nella costruzione dell'Europa medievale: circolazione e sistemi di relazioni
2018
The expansion of the post-carolingian core in the Mediterranean area (Spain, Southern Italy, Sicily and Crusader kingdoms) is an outstanding point of the "making of Europe" (according to R. Bartlett), along with the achievement of a commercial hegemony on the Mediterranean routes by Western merchants. Nevertheless, historical researches and syntesis did not consider enough the role played by institutional compounds that unified a large part of the Mediterranean area under the same power. The history of the so-called Crown of Aragon is an example of the extent to wich political unification initiated strong trends of circulation of nobles, royal officiers and merchants between the dominions o…
Credit, Debt and FInances of the Queen's Household in the Crown of Aragon at the End of the Fourteenth Century. The Agreement between the Queen Viola…
2018
A finales del siglo XIV la tesorería de la reina Violante de Bar padecía de un fuerte endeudamiento que imposibilitaba prácticamente cualquier pago, por lo que se decidió cambiar la dirección de la gestión económica de la Casa de la reina. En el presente artículo analizaremos las estrategias para solucionar el problema del endeudamiento, mediante la edición y el análisis de los excepcionales capítulos y memoriales firmados por la reina Violante y su nuevo tesorero, Berenguer de Cortilles, uno de sus mayores acreedores privados. At the end of the Fourteenth century, Queen’s treasury in the Crown of Aragon suffered from a heavy debt that made virtually impossible any ordinary payment. As a re…
The Dark Trienium: Valencia, 1389-1391. Unrest coinciding with an assault on the Jewish district
2012
Estudio de base documental sobre el auge del antijudaísmo desde 1371 y el asalto a la judería de Valencia en julio de 1391, al poco tiempo de su ampliación. Sitúa el hecho en el contexto de las tensiones políticas en la Corona de Aragón y en la ciudad, donde se enfrentaban sendos bandos: actuaciones entre 1375 y 1392 del inquisidor Nicolau Eimeric (Directorium inquisitorum) contra herejes y su condena de obras de Ramon Llull. Cortes de 1388-1389. Guerras en el ámbito pirenaico en 1390. Políticas de abastecimiento y defensa de la ciudad de Valencia y oposición de villas y nobles del reino al municipio de la capital, que arma una milicia montada en mayo de 1391. Represión de maleantes y medid…
The expansion of a European feudal monarchy during the 13th Century: the Catalan-Aragonese Crown and the consequences of the conquest of the kingdoms…
2009
-Enric.Guinot@uv.es In the middle of the 13th century the Crown of Aragon conquered by military means the Muslim Mediterranean Coast of the Iberian Peninsula, incorporating it into the European feudal world; this resulted in the destruction of the Andalusí state and part of its society as well as in a redistribution of towns, villages, houses and lands among Christians. The historiography of some years ago emphasized the role of trade and urban burgesses in these new societies, but present opinion is more related to a long expansion of feudal society as well as the creation in Majorca and Valencia of a colonial society. Logically, the consequences of this process had also an effect in Catal…