Precedent and project
The International Congress supplying and funding the court is
the fifth event of a research program carried the Graduate School of Spanish and Iberian Studies (Casa de Velázquez, Madrid) and the
convergence of two research projects:
Courts and court societies in Iberian Peninsula Coord .: Alexandra Beauchamp
(Université de Limoges, EA 4270
CRIHAM) & María Narbona Cárceles (Universidad
de Zaragoza)
Org. : École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques (Casa de Velázquez, Madrid), Université de Limoges, Universidad de Zaragoza.
Courts and late medieval courtly societies are undergoing renewed attention in recent decades and now represent in Europe, a major axis of research on political, social and cultural history of the late Middle Ages. A number of studies have been showing how the royal and aristocratic courts increasingly structured and institutionalized, became the hub of political and governmental apparatus of those territories, also extending to other power centers located beyond its borders through close contacts and connections via kinship. They have also shown how, thanks to the number of its members and the demands of their lifestyle, were dynamic centers of consumption, both material and cultural.
The study of royal and aristocratic courts of the Iberian Peninsula Christian of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries is even more interesting than the late Middle Ages various kingdoms, with very different political traditions and institutions were still living together. In addition, for this period, their organizations and curial characteristics are much less studied than for the modern era, and have resulted in scattered research and often compartmentalized so medieval and contemporary political boundaries. Therefore, this program aims to foster a comparative history of the different cuts of the Iberian Peninsula in the last centuries of the Middle Ages approximation.
The result, so far, has been four conferences:
- Seminario introductorio al programa. Casa de Velázquez, Madrid, 27 de enero, 23 de marzo y 7 de mayo de 2012
-Congreso Fuentes documentales para el estudio de las cortes de la Península Ibérica (siglos XIV-XV): gestión, finanzas y vida cortesana. Universidad de Zaragoza 21 y 22 de febrero de 2013
-Congreso Administrateurs et gestion des affaires curiales en Péninsule ibérique (XIVe-XVe siècles). Université de Limoges, 5 y 6 de junio de 2013
-Congreso La cortes y la ciudad. Recepción e instalación de las comitivas regias en la ciudades ibéricas a final de la Edad Media. Universidad de Valladolid, 2 y 3 de junio de 2014
A medieval capital and its area of influence. The economic and political impact of Valencia over the whole kingdom in the Middle Ages
The research project aims to analyze the relations of a medieval capital, Valencia, and the territory surrounding it and that makes its livelihood through the provision of food, raw materials, water, etc, but also the key functions it exercised through the urban investment, credit, and taxation, among others.
The project aims to deepen some aspects that have been poorly treated or neglected by European medieval history, as relations between town and country, between production and distribution, supply and demand, or between marketing and consumption; and on the other hand, bases, mainly economic, but also political, which made possible the growth and even the departure of the great medieval cities. Long medievalists have built and maintained a radical separation between urban and rural areas. There was-and still are- specialists in citizen elites and urban productive, manufacturing and trade; and there were in society and the agricultural economy, in the world of lords and peasants; but in both cases, as two areas not only opposed but locked and isolated from each other. Until very recently have been very few historians who have been interested in the projection of the urban influence beyond the city walls; the potential impact of the application of a densely populated urban areas and, therefore, with a consumption capacity and, above all, a strong need to supply on the economic output of the surrounding countryside; for distribution within the country of the products produced in the city and even the redistribution of articles contributed by the foreign trade; and, conversely, for the marketing of agricultural production in the domestic and foreign markets, and the effects it could have on demand nature, volume and destination of the production, especially the expansion, intensification, diversification and specialization of crops.
Org. : École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques (Casa de Velázquez, Madrid), Université de Limoges, Universidad de Zaragoza.
Courts and late medieval courtly societies are undergoing renewed attention in recent decades and now represent in Europe, a major axis of research on political, social and cultural history of the late Middle Ages. A number of studies have been showing how the royal and aristocratic courts increasingly structured and institutionalized, became the hub of political and governmental apparatus of those territories, also extending to other power centers located beyond its borders through close contacts and connections via kinship. They have also shown how, thanks to the number of its members and the demands of their lifestyle, were dynamic centers of consumption, both material and cultural.
The study of royal and aristocratic courts of the Iberian Peninsula Christian of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries is even more interesting than the late Middle Ages various kingdoms, with very different political traditions and institutions were still living together. In addition, for this period, their organizations and curial characteristics are much less studied than for the modern era, and have resulted in scattered research and often compartmentalized so medieval and contemporary political boundaries. Therefore, this program aims to foster a comparative history of the different cuts of the Iberian Peninsula in the last centuries of the Middle Ages approximation.
The result, so far, has been four conferences:
- Seminario introductorio al programa. Casa de Velázquez, Madrid, 27 de enero, 23 de marzo y 7 de mayo de 2012
-Congreso Fuentes documentales para el estudio de las cortes de la Península Ibérica (siglos XIV-XV): gestión, finanzas y vida cortesana. Universidad de Zaragoza 21 y 22 de febrero de 2013
-Congreso Administrateurs et gestion des affaires curiales en Péninsule ibérique (XIVe-XVe siècles). Université de Limoges, 5 y 6 de junio de 2013
-Congreso La cortes y la ciudad. Recepción e instalación de las comitivas regias en la ciudades ibéricas a final de la Edad Media. Universidad de Valladolid, 2 y 3 de junio de 2014
A medieval capital and its area of influence. The economic and political impact of Valencia over the whole kingdom in the Middle Ages
The research project aims to analyze the relations of a medieval capital, Valencia, and the territory surrounding it and that makes its livelihood through the provision of food, raw materials, water, etc, but also the key functions it exercised through the urban investment, credit, and taxation, among others.
The project aims to deepen some aspects that have been poorly treated or neglected by European medieval history, as relations between town and country, between production and distribution, supply and demand, or between marketing and consumption; and on the other hand, bases, mainly economic, but also political, which made possible the growth and even the departure of the great medieval cities. Long medievalists have built and maintained a radical separation between urban and rural areas. There was-and still are- specialists in citizen elites and urban productive, manufacturing and trade; and there were in society and the agricultural economy, in the world of lords and peasants; but in both cases, as two areas not only opposed but locked and isolated from each other. Until very recently have been very few historians who have been interested in the projection of the urban influence beyond the city walls; the potential impact of the application of a densely populated urban areas and, therefore, with a consumption capacity and, above all, a strong need to supply on the economic output of the surrounding countryside; for distribution within the country of the products produced in the city and even the redistribution of articles contributed by the foreign trade; and, conversely, for the marketing of agricultural production in the domestic and foreign markets, and the effects it could have on demand nature, volume and destination of the production, especially the expansion, intensification, diversification and specialization of crops.
