The Enlightenment in Catalonia [PDF]
This article sketches out a historiographic picture of the Enlightenment in Catalonia: first it analyses the qualities of the concept, how it was adapted to the reality of Catalonia and how it has been interpreted from different vantage points, and ...
Pelayo, Javier Antón
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The Catalonia of the 10th to 12th centuries and the historiographic definition of feudalism [PDF]
The historiographic evolution of the concept of feudalism, from its formulation in the 17th century until today, has affected Catalonia differently. In the last quarter of the 20th century, it reached a prominent position as a paradigm of the mutationist
Flocel Sabaté
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The implementation of the Counter-Reformation in Catalan-speaking lands (1563-1700): A successful process? [PDF]
The process of the Counter-Reformation, embarked on after the Council of Trent (1545-1563), was successful in some parts of Europe, whilst in others it did not manage to change the existing religious practices or morals. In the Catalanspeakinglands,
Ignasi Fernández Terricabras
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Peasant Servitude in Mediaeval Catalonia [PDF]
The essay looks at the late-mediaeval serfs in Catalunya Vella who were known as remences, peasants tied to the land they occupied and to their lords by the necessity to “redeem” themselves from servitude in order to obtain the freedom to ...
Paul Freedman
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The Papal Bulls on Papyrus: an Approach to their Conservation [PDF]
There are few Papal bulls on Papyrus, it is a support difficult to find and to preserve, and that’s why we have to consider them like an exceptional historic and cultural heritage, especially in Catalonia where some important collections are preserved ...
Bello, Carmen, Borrell, Àngels
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1970, 1925, 2009. Whistling in the stadium as a form of protest [PDF]
The discovery and documentation of a clandestine handbill dating from the end of Franco's regime calling on supporters to whistle in protest at the dictator at the Camp Nou provides the departure point for a revision of the relation between football as ...
Claret Miranda, Jaume +1 more
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A shift in the spatial pattern of Iberian droughts during the 17th century [PDF]
In this paper, series of drought occurrence and drought extension in the Iberian Peninsula are constructed for the 1600–1750 period from seven rogation series.
F. Domínguez-Castro +3 more
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Industrial colonies in Catalonia [PDF]
Industrial colonies, meaning industrial population nuclei located in rural areas, are one of the most characteristic phenomena of the industrialisation process in Catalonia, both because of the industrial, business and social model they developed and ...
Serra Rotés, Rosa
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The fine arts during the Baroque period in the Principality of Catalonia and the countships of Roussillon and the Cerdagne [PDF]
Once the prejudices that hindered our understanding of Baroque art’s true nature had been overcome, the history of Catalan art has been rehabilitating the memory of the Baroque period and discovering a more faithful image of it. Nonetheless, it has
Joan Bosch
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Some clarifications on several aspects of the history of Jews in Medieval Catalonia [PDF]
The settling of Jews in the Catalan Countries is prior to the year 1000. In the 12th and 13th centuries many Jews acted as administrators and financiers at the service of the Catalan kings, as well as emissaries to the Moslem governments.
Feliu i Mabres, Eduard
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