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Grand Duke Géza, his son Vaik (Stephen I) and other Hungarian kings were most often present in the political center of the kingdom – medium regni. The most important royal settlements, the oldest monasteries and the first bishop¬rics were... more
Hungary was a large kingdom and the Arpads did not only stay in the medium regni but also traveled to the surrounding parts of the country. In addition to the main royal residences, bishoprics or monasteries, they also used their courts... more
Stephen Baxter and John Blair, ‘Land Tenure and Royal Patronage in the Early English Kingdom: a Model and a Case Study’, Anglo–Norman Studies 28 (2006), 19–46
Éste es un estudio en torno al arquetipo del rey sabio en la literatura política de la Antigüedad Tardía y la Alta Edad Media. En él se aborda el discurso de las virtudes políticas propias de la Realeza sapiencial, parte fundamental de la... more
Boniface of Canossa is a figure of great importance to the political and military history of eleventh century Italy. Modern historiography has almost universally argued that Boniface gained his power through a close relationship and... more
There are two objectives behind this article. First, it seeks to trace down the pedigree of a theory described in scholarly discourse as the 'ethnogenesis model'. As is often believed, the theory originally was, essentially, an innovative... more
Argues that elective kingship, rather than being a source of weakness, was an appropriate and effective system of succession for a highly regionalized economic and political structure.
В центре данной работы стоят взаимоотношения власти и народа в их институциональном оформлении, а именно проблематика соотношения власти правителя, действующей общественной нормы и ее носителей. На широком конкретно-историческом... more
El culto a Carlomagno practicado en la catedral de Gerona a finales de la Edad Media (1345-1484) constituye un hecho sorprendente y fascinante al mismo tiempo. Sorprendente porque es el único de estas características que se constata en la... more
Las muchas y variadas actuaciones y decisiones políticas que Jaime I de Aragón protagonizó a lo largo de su extenso reinado fueron polémicas ya entre sus contemporáneos. No llama la atención, entonces, que los balances historiográficos... more
Las ceremonias de la realeza adquirieron un importante peso político y propagandístico en la Baja Edad Media castellana. En el presente artículo, analizamos la escenografía desarrollada en tales actos a través de testimonios literarios... more
Las relaciones entre realeza, caballería y guerra fueron intensas y multifacéticas durante la Edad Media, por lo que pueden ser estudiadas desde diferentes ópticas. Una de las más significativas e interesantes es la de la génesis y... more
En la política de promoción de las monjas mendicantes que desarrollaron los reyes de Castilla se percibe una tipología de “fundaciones en relación” con mujeres. Alfonso X y Pedro I colaboraron con sus amantes, Mayor Guillén y María de... more
Liturgie et royauté dans les monarchies asturienne et léonaise (711-1109) Resume L'époque wisigothique marque en péninsule Ibérique l'élaboration d'une liturgie royale notamment pour le sacre, dont la pratique est attestée à partir de... more
Thomas DESWARTE Un vent de liberté sous Alphonse VI de León (1065-1109) Les premiers fueros et la fin du « colonat » Les fueros sont traditionnellement présentés comme emblématiques d'une société de frontière « organisée pour la guerre »... more
The Castilian Franciscanism born closely linked to the Crown. The data we have are scarce and often legendary, but they allow us to draw a first scheme of links and interests. We analyze the performances of Fernando III, closely related... more
In the early Middle Ages, monarchs spent a lot of time in the saddle as they moved from one castle, palace, court, monastery or bishop’s house to another. The ruler’s travel and personal presence were a normal and important way of... more
Title page, summary and contents page of my doctoral thesis
Scholars of the Albigensian Crusade in 13th century Occitania have tended to focus on the dissident Cathars as the only explanation for the crusade, where they have used them as weapons in their own contemporary political and religious... more
Resumo O trabalho analisa a construção da imagem do rei cristão nos Decem Libri Historiarum de Gregório de Tours (c.538-594), com ênfase no relato da conversão de Clóvis (481-511) e na atribuição de santidade a Gontrão (561-592).... more
Proposals welcomed for a proposed comprehensive history of monarchy aimed for Routledge's 'Histories' series. See attachment for details, proposals due by 1 December 2015.
literature-whether heroic poems, prose annals, genealogies, law codes, or religious poems and tracts-by asking questions about the ideological "work" a poem or a prose text does in its cultural time and place. While this approach does not... more
During the eleventh century various Italian nobles, churchmen and cities rebelled against Imperial rule. To counter this, the Salian emperors enacted various measures to assert their authority including the construction of relationship... more
This article offers a sympathetic appraisal of the career of Donnchad mac Briain, an over-looked eleventh-century king of Munster. In addition, it is argued that his association with the Crown of Ireland and position as a genuine and... more
Druga połowa XIV wieku to dla Królestwa Polskiego okres, w którym wśród wielu nowych zjawisk obserwujemy również powiększanie się składu dworu monarszego i związaną z tym rozbudowę struktur ceremonialnych. Główni uczestnicy dworskiego... more
Presented at the Harlaxton 2018 Symposium. The working title of my thesis is "The Distribution of Royal Patronage to the Gentry in the Minority of Henry VI, 1422-1437." It is an investigation into how - in a time so invested in personal... more
Delivered at the International Medieval Congress at Leeds University in 2003.
¿Es posible acercarse a la Edad Media a través de Juego de Tronos? ¿Pueden observarse trazas medievales en la saga de novelas Canción de Hielo y Fuego y en la serie de televisión de HBO? A lo largo de las páginas de este libro se da... more
Summary of my PostDoc project funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (2018-2021)
Whatever their privileges in theory, in practice the military orders were not independent of secular powers, nor of the local ecclesiastical authorities, the bishops and archbishops. In order to survive and to pursue their vocation of the... more
Please see the attached call for papers for Kings & Queens 5, which will be held at Clemson University (USA) 8-9 April 2016. Please note that proposals are due by 1 Sept 2015.
... late medieval Britain. Sovereign Fantasies ex-amines romance narratives of Arthur from the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in the context of changing political and cultural identities in late medieval Britain. I argue that ...
The fundamental argument of this paper is that the charter of 1014 to the arimanni of Mantua was designed to balance or even limit the growing power of the Canossan family. Three charters were issued to the arimanni and the cives of... more