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L'arquitectura dins la cultura nobiliària a Xàtiva
2018
El present treball busca analitzar i destacar aquelles arquitectures que l’estament nobiliari de Xàtiva va manar construir amb la finalitat de mostrar el seu poder al poble. Així mateix, és un intent de fer valer els edificis i els elements que se n’han conservat fins als nostres dies. La metodologia seguida consta d’una primera anàlisi del parc edificat per avaluar-ne l’arquitectura i d’una cerca a diferents arxius per conèixer l’evolució, tant de les construccions com de les diferents nissagues que les van habitar. Tot això ens permet concloure que, en el cas xativí, existeix una xifra elevada d’edificis erigits per la classe nobiliària que encara hui es mantenen dempeus, a la vegada que …
Swedish Councillors of the Realm, 1523-1680
2017
The database covers the 257 acting councillors who were in office for the period 1523–1680. The information has been collected from various sources: biographical registers and databases, biography collections, lineage databases, and research literature. It consists of data on births, deaths and marriages; dates of appointments; the age when appointed; spouses and their parents; information on family relations inside the Council; and the number of acting councillors per year. The database also shows how many council meetings person has attended between the years 1621 and 1654.
Estudi de les fonts d’una Epistula de amore d’Antonio Beccadelli adreçada al valencià Francesc de Centelles (1437-1442) sobre la «vis, aut potestas» …
2018
Resum: La política expansionista de la Corona d’Aragó vers el Mezzogiorno italià, encapçalada per Alfons el Magnànim durant la primera meitat del segle XV, va suposar que el monarca formara al seu voltant una cort d’humanistes italians perquè deixaren constància escrita de la seua empresa i transmeteren a la seua cort els coneixements dels grans autors clàssics llatins i grecs. Aquesta nòmina de lletraferits en estudis grecollatins, en què trobem Lorenzo Valla, Guiniforte Barzizza, Bartolomeo Facio i Antonio Beccadelli (el Panormita), entre d’altres, mantingueren assíduament contacte amb membres de la cancelleria reial i de la noblesa. Un d’aquests nobles va ser el cavaller valencià, camarl…
Much ado about nothing? The intendant, the gentilshommes and the investigations into nobility in Burgundy (1664-1670)
2008
In 1664 Louis XIV did not spare the Burgundian nobles where furnishing proof of their entitlement to nobility was concerned. His quest for usurpers, which occurred throughout the French kingdom, generated severe misgivings among the gentilshommes, those nobles who had the right to sit in the provincial estates and feared that members of their Chambre would suffer pointless harassment. However, the process was conducted in an unexpectedly lenient manner, demonstrating that royal authority—through its local representative, the intendant Claude Bouchu—could be employed in a conciliatory fashion. The monarchical system, negotiated as much as imposed, should be understood within the framework of…
Una nueva personalidad para Juan Melchor Pérez, <em>scultore e tragettatore</em> al servicio del VII Duque de Montalto y Juan José de Aus…
2018
El artículo presenta a Juan Melchor Pérez (doc. 1642-1650) como un escultor y fundidor sucesivamente al servicio del Duque de Montalto y Juan José de Austria, cuestiona la identificación de uno de los bustos de bronce firmados por él que se conserva en el Museo del Prado, se plantea la complejidad de determinar la autoría en las obras realizadas en bronce y el papel de los escultores de corte al servicio de familias nobles.
La Marcousse à Poliénas du XVe au XVIIe siècle : les aspects matériels et économiques d'un domaine noble en Isère
2004
The stronghold of Marcousse still partially in elevation in the municipality of Poliénas (Isère, France) is richly documented by a remarkable archives for this type of rural settlement . The author reports on the major phases of the implementation and of developments in this area by addressing issues both material (buildings and furniture stock) and economic ( field management) under the Old Regime .
Oligarchies and Client Systems in Rural communities in the South of the Crown of Aragón (13th to 15th Centuries)
2010
Studies of late medieval Hispanic client systems generally focus on networks of noble power, to the exclusion of the peasantry. This is doubtless in part because the peasantry has traditionally been considered to represent a largely homogenous social group defined in opposition to the feudal nobility, whose members defended common interests. However, the last few years have witnessed a profusion of studies into the rural, or peasant, elites of Western Europe during the late medieval and modern periods, and these highlight not only significant disparities between the economic status of those and that of the remainder of the peasantry, but also their employment of specific power-mechanisms in…
Deute públic i renda censalista al País Valencià en el segle XV. Una proposta d’interpretació
2018
L’emergència de la nova fiscalitat –de la Corona, de les ciutats i del regne– va ser, sens dubte, una de les grans transformacions polítiques i econòmiques del final de l’edat mitjana. Amb l’impost va aparèixer un deute públic consolidat que, en la Corona d’Aragó, es va desenvolupar mitjançant el censal, un instrument financer semblant a les rentes constituées franceses o les perpetual annuities angleses. A partir del cas del País Valencià, pot assajar-se una estimació del volum de rendes generat pel deute públic i de com es distribuïen des del punt de vista geogràfic i social. Així doncs, en aquest article s’estudia en quins nivells de la xarxa urbana es concentraven aquests recursos i qui…
The Hungarian Case: From Natio to the Ersatz Nation-State
2009
The Kingdom of Hungary had been part of the Habsburg realms since 1526 when the Sultan Suleyman I the Magnificent (ruled 1520–1566) defeated the Hungarian armies at Mohacs. The King of Hungary and Bohemia, Louis II (ruled 1516–1526), died in the battle. Due to the dynastic agreement between the Jagiellonians and the Habsburgs, the latter were to take over Hungary and the Czech lands should the former fail to produce male heirs. In the other case, the Jagiellonians could hope for the imperial throne in Vienna. Meanwhile, the Ottoman Empire seized most of Hungary proper, including Buda (1541), the seat of Hungarian Kings. Foreseeing this outcome, the Habsburgs had already moved the capital o…
The Polish Nation: From a Multiethnic to an Ethnically Homogenous Nation-State
2009
In Chapter 4 I focused on the stateless noble natio of partitioned Poland-Lithuania that sought to transform itself into a Polish nation. The Polish-Lithuanian noble leaders paid lip service to the French model of the nation-state but, apart from a few lonely dissenting voices, had no intention to broaden the confines of the planned Polish nation to embrace the ‘third estate,’ that is, the peasantry and burghers. The social barrier of serfdom alone kept the nobles from associating with peasants. In the cities, a large and sometimes predominant, segment of the population was made up of German-speakers and Yiddish-speaking Jews. Their idioms disqualified them from participation in the emergin…