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Revenging Vestments: On the Chasubles of the Bishops Ildefonsus and Adaulfus (Toledo and Compostela, Tenth–Twelfth Centuries)

open access: yesReligions, 2022
This article will analyze the miracle of St. Ildefonsus’ chasuble (606–667) from the point of view of miracles of punishment. In comparison to previous studies, on this occasion, the Toledan story will be reconsidered not only together with that of St ...
Abel Lorenzo-Rodríguez
exaly   +3 more sources

About Cathedrals, Schools and Children. The Example of Late Medieval Toledo

open access: yesStudia Historica. Historia Medieval, 2019
This paper focuses on the presence of children in medieval cathedrals, which was much more common than previously thought. It takes the late medieval Toledo as an example and it analyzes the five circumstances in which this presence became a reality ...
María José LOP OTÍN
doaj   +2 more sources

Holy Toledo: Muslim-Christian Relations and Catholic Nationalism in Vicente Blasco Ibánez's The Shadow of the Cathedral [PDF]

open access: yesJournal for the Study of Religion, 2017
Although the eminent Spanish novelist and anticlericalist Vicente Blasco Ibánez (1867-1928) received little scholarly attention outside his homeland for several decades, he gained significantly greater international notice in the latter half of the ...
Frederick Hale
doaj   +5 more sources

‘Breaking the myth: Toledo Cathedral on the international stage’: Toledo Cathedral: Building Histories in Medieval Castile by Tom Nickson, University Park, Pensylvannia: The Pennsylvania University Press, 2015 [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Art Historiography, 2017
This review analyzes the contribution of Tom Nickson´s study from the position given to Spain within European Gothic by the Anglophone historiography. It argues that Nickson´s book is a radical departure from previous historiography, which had condemned ...
Matilde Mateo
doaj   +1 more source

Rendering Polyurethane Hydrophilic for Efficient Cellulose Reinforcement in Melt‐Spun Nanocomposite Fibers

open access: yesAdvanced Materials Interfaces, Volume 10, Issue 9, March 24, 2023., 2023
A hydrophilic polyurethane (PU) is synthesized to improve the compatibility with hydrophilic cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) in melt spun nanocomposite fibers, whose mechanical properties are often limited by poor CNC dispersion. In this way, a stronger CNC reinforcement is achieved than in polymer nanocomposite fibers using hydrophobic PU. Abstract Many
Alexandre Redondo   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing place‐based identities in the early Middle Ages: a proposal for post‐Roman Iberia

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 1, Page 23-50, February 2023., 2023
Sociological models of place‐based identity can be used to better understand the social dynamics of local communities and how they interact with their surroundings. This paper explores how these theoretical models of belonging to a place, in tandem with communal cognitive maps, can be applied to post‐Roman contexts, taking the Iberian Peninsula in the ...
Javier Martínez Jiménez   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Crossing the Line: Cristóbal de Villalpando and the Surplus of Script

open access: yesArt History, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 308-341, April 2022., 2022
In 1706 Cristóbal de Villalpando signed a painting with an unusual, intensive calligraphic flourish, and sent it from Mexico City far to the north. This essay describes Villalpando's decision to invest so much pictorial energy in letterforms against this geographic backdrop.
Aaron M. Hyman
wiley   +1 more source

‘Because their patron never dies’: ecclesiastical freedmen, socio‐religious interaction, and group formation under the aegis of ‘church property’ in the early medieval west (sixth to eleventh centuries)

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 555-585, November 2021., 2021
In the early medieval west, patronate, as adapted from Roman law, was a fundamental category in determining the legal status of freedmen. In many cases it entailed a basic set of obligations. In an increasing number of situations, however, the patron became an ecclesiastical institution, since slaves and freed persons were often given to churches and ...
Stefan Esders
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond faith: Biomolecular evidence for changing urban economies in multi‐faith medieval Portugal

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Physical Anthropology, Volume 176, Issue 2, Page 208-222, October 2021., 2021
Difference in marine protein in the diet of early and late medieval population. Abstract Objectives During the Middle Ages, Portugal witnessed unprecedented socioeconomic and religious changes under transitioning religious political rule. The implications of changing ruling powers for urban food systems and individual diets in medieval Portugal is ...
Alice Toso   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lengua y ciudad imperiales: Las traducciones toledanas de Diego López de Ayala y Diego de Salazar en el siglo XVI

open access: yesE-Spania, 2023
In the first half of the century Diego López de Ayala and Diego de Salazar collaborated on the first Castilian translations of the Thirteen Questions of Love by Giovanni Boccaccio and the Arcadia by Jacopo Sannazaro within an intellectual community in ...
Jonathan O’Conner
doaj   +1 more source

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