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Sir Thomas Gray's Scalacronica: a medieval chronicle and its historical and literary context [PDF]
, 1998 Sir Thomas Gray's Scalacronica is almost unique amongst medieval English chronicles in having been written by a knight, and it is therefore surprising that so little work has been done on it; this thesis attempts to remedy that omission.
King, Andy
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Pedro de Ayala served as a diplomat for King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile at the courts of Henry VII, King of England, and James IV, King of Scots. In July 1498, he wrote a letter, partly in cipher, to report to his king and queen on such matters as Spain's interests in international diplomacy; the characters and ...
Adrian William Jaime +2 more
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Sancho IV de Castilla y la imposición del diezmo mudéjar en Murcia
Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie III, Historia Medieval, 2016 Durante las últimas dos décadas del siglo XIII, el reino de Castilla estuvo sujeto una doble amenaza: de un lado un nuevo embate peninsular por parte de un imperio musulmán norteafricano, los benimerines, pone en serio peligro las conquistas cristianas ...
Carmen López Martínez
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Apropiaciones de comunales en la Puebla de Guadalupe (Cáceres) durante la Baja Edad Media
Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie III, Historia Medieval, 2016 Este trabajo pretende una revisión del modelo de sociedad rural bajomedieval impuesto como paradigma por la historiografía anterior, centrada en la implicación de los diferentes grupos sociales que integraban la comunidad rural de la Puebla de Guadalupe
Alfonso Domínguez de la Concha
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More Science Than Art: The First Botanical Garden in Portugal (c. 1650)
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Gabriel Grisley, a German physician, came to Portugal and founded a garden near the Xabregas River in Lisbon, during the 1610s under the Spanish kings' rule. In view of the utility a botanic garden represented for the kingdom, he was able to obtain a royal privilege from King João IV during the Restauration War against the Spanish (1640–1668).
Ana Duarte Rodrigues
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Reseña de: Santiago Fernández, Javier de, Política monetaria y moneda en el reinado de Carlos I
Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie IV, Historia Moderna, 2018 Santiago Fernández, Javier de, Política monetaria y moneda en el reinado de Carlos II, Madrid, UNED / Ediciones Complutense, 2018, 296 pp., ISBN: 978-84-362-7353-3 (UNED); 978-84-669-3572-2 (Ediciones Complutense)
José Miguel López Villalba
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Fragmentum Cracoviense Officii Sancti Demetrii Thessalonicensis [PDF]
, 2015 The manuscript Ms. 2372 of the Jagiellonian Library in Kraków contains a notated fragment of an early 12th-century Hungarian antiphoner as a flyleaf. The text written with late Caroline Minuscule is accompanied by two types of music notation.
Czagány, Zsuzsa
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Jorge Luis Borges' Medieval Aesthetics of Failure
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Irina Dumitrescu
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
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