RODRIGO JIMÉNEZ DE RADA Y LA COMPILACIÓN HISTORIOGRÁFICA DEL CÓDICE DE BAMBERG HIST. 3

Traditio ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 74 ◽  
pp. 249-270
Author(s):  
HELENA DE CARLOS VILLAMARÍN
Keyword(s):  
Tenth Century ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
Medieval Spain ◽  
Papal Court ◽  
Rodrigo Jimenez De Rada

Rodrigo Jimenez de Rada's Historia Romanorum depends, when describing some of Aeneas's adventures and the origins of Rome, both on the anonymous paraphrase of the Excidium Troie called Excidium, and on the paraphrase of Paul the Deacon's Historia Romana copied in some manuscripts related to the codex Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek Hist. 3. Some features of Jimenez de Rada's Historia de rebus Hispanie also follow the paraphrase of Exordia Scythica copied in the same family of manuscripts. The antigraphus of the Bamberg codex, probably written in Campania in the tenth century, seems to have been the textual model for Jimenez de Rada, a man who used to travel to Italy and visit the papal court. Besides proving this fact, this paper aims to follow the steps of Excidium Troie, a text whose presence in medieval Spain is detectable, although in a particular version, in some manuscripts of the late 13th century.

Imperial Rule in Medieval Spain

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 288-318
Author(s):  
Wolfram Drews
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Political History ◽  
Tenth Century ◽  
Direct Response ◽  
Medieval Spain ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Medieval Iberia ◽  
Stark Contrast ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Conceptual Core

With the coronation of Alfonso VII of Léon and Castile as ‘emperor of all Spain’ in Toledo in 1135 the imperial aspirations of the Leonese kings reached a climax. Their origins, however, go back to the tenth century, when individual kings were called ‘imperator’ in charters. This article traces the origins of this tradition within the context of political history and outlines the phenomenon of imperial self-ascriptions on the Iberian Peninsula. While modern research traditionally focused on the question of whether or not the kings of León pursued an ‘imperial programme’ and, if they did, what fundamental ideas lay behind such a programme, this article proposes a different approach: by focusing on the interdependencies between Christian and Muslim powers, it argues that the coronation of Alfonso VII could have been a direct response to the proclamation of ‘Abd al-Mu’min as caliph of the Almohad Empire in 1132. A close analysis of the royal and imperial titles already used by Alfonso’s grandfather Alfonso VI shows that he imitated the traditional caliphal title to be ‘ruler of the faithful’, although religious references were not a traditional part of Christian imperial titles. By examining Leonese and Almohad imperial self-ascriptions, the article offers a model by which we can explore the ways in which neighbouring imperial powers influenced each other and developed competing claims to power. The article establishes that Christian use of imperial titles on the Iberian Peninsula came to an abrupt end once competition with Muslim rivals became obsolete. It underlines the importance of the individual context in which a title was used, a point that stands in stark contrast to the received view that there was an unchanging ‘conceptual core’ to the notion of ‘empire’ as it was used by the peninsula’s kings. The article also highlights the hegemonic connotations of imperial notions in medieval Iberia and the importance of a motif of rulership that included subjects of both Christian and Muslim belief.

scholarly journals SLAVIC «COOK ROOMS» FROM THE SETTLEMENT ROVANTSI — HNIDAVSKA HIRKA IN VOLYN

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-250
Author(s):  
A. B. Bardetskyi
Keyword(s):  
Tenth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Earth Ovens ◽  
Individual Farm ◽  
Earth Oven ◽  
Excavation Area

In 2009 during the excavations at the multi-layered settlement of Rovantsi — Hnidavska Hirka near Lutsk in the excavation area 10 the dwellings and household buildings of the Slavic period have been discovered. To the horizon of the tenth century three houses and the building with three earth ovens were attributed. The stratigraphy of the filling of this building (object 3) indicates that the earth ovens were not operating at the same time. Three successive horizons are observed in this structure. The first site was a grain pit which was discovered at the bottom of the building. This pit was covered by two rammed floors, sagged into it. The analysis of ceramics made it possible to connect one house (object 18) with the first horizon of object 3 and the other house (object 16) with the third horizon of object 3. In the ovens of these houses there were fragments of pots, glued to the fragments of pots from the corresponding horizons of object 3. This building is interpreted as the room for cooking. The horizon of the 12th — the first half of the 13th century includes the structure with two clay ovens, pit-cellar, small rectangular building and the ditch that surrounded these objects. This ditch was obviously the part of fence, and the gap in it was the pass. The complex of this ditch also includes two ground fires, located in the pass in one line with the ditch. It has been suggested that the building with large clay oven which was discovered in 2010 in a nearby excavation 12 (object 12 / Ex. 12), is the same cook room. Obviously, it reflects certain stage in development of such buildings, namely the stop of the use of fast-destroying earth ovens and the transition to the construction of large clay ovens. This is evidenced by the following facts: this building is different in shape from all other houses of the 10th century; it is located at the site of the previous building with earth oven; the oven in it had too large sizes relative to other ovens from the houses of the 10th century. The results of the excavations at Hnidavka Hirka help to reject the version that such structures were the manufactories and to consider them not «mini-factories-bakeries» but only the kitchens with one oven in each individual farm.

The hidden material culture of the Dark Ages. Early medieval ceramics at Sagalassos (Turkey): new evidence (ca AD 650–800)

2009 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 147-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Athanasios K. Vionis ◽  
Jeroen Poblome ◽  
Marc Waelkens
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Tenth Century ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
Dark Ages ◽  
General Decline

AbstractOn the basis of recent archaeological evidence unearthed in the course of systematic excavations by the Sagalassos Archaeological Research Project (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) in southwestern Turkey, this paper attempts to pull together different strings of ceramic data in order to bridge the era between late antiquity and the Middle Ages (mid seventh century to ninth century AD). Our aim is to present samples of the ceramic assemblages excavated at the site of ancient Sagalassos from layers that are most probably dated to the late seventh and eighth centuries. An attempt has been made to examine rigorously the stratigraphy and its contents that are admittedly completely different to the known ceramic forms of the late Roman/early Byzantine (fourth century to mid seventh century) and middle Byzantine (early tenth century to mid 13th century) periods at Sagalassos. Five different pottery types are presented, both kitchenwares and tablewares. The fact that all the ware types presented here are local products should not be seen necessarily as a result of a general decline in trade, rural and/or urban life, but rather as a local response to a generally changing economic system and an emerging local pottery tradition based on household-organised production. The shift from the Roman mass-produced and customised wares (that started to disappear from the market) to non-specialised local/regional production (that started to satisfy basic household needs) need not have been a sudden one. Our ultimate aim is to contribute to recent attempts to throw more light on the archaeologically ‘hidden’ material culture of the so-called ‘Dark Ages’.

scholarly journals Mathematical Philology in the Treatise on Double False Position in an Arabic Manuscript at Columbia University

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 308-352
Author(s):  
Alexandre M. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Method ◽  
Tenth Century ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
Mathematical Text ◽  
Rare Book ◽  
False Position ◽  
Editio Princeps ◽  
Multiple Stages

Abstract This article examines an Arabic mathematical manuscript at Columbia University’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library (or. 45), focusing on a previously unpublished set of texts: the treatise on the mathematical method known as Double False Position, as supplemented by Jābir ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ṣābī (tenth century?), and the commentaries by Aḥmad ibn al-Sarī (d. 548/1153–4) and Saʿd al-Dīn Asʿad ibn Saʿīd al-Hamadhānī (12th/13th century?), the latter previously unnoticed. The article sketches the contents of the manuscript, then offers an editio princeps, translation, and analysis of the treatise. It then considers how the Swiss historian of mathematics Heinrich Suter (1848–1922) read Jābir’s treatise (as contained in a different manuscript) before concluding with my own proposal for how to go about reading this mathematical text: as a witness of multiple stages of a complex textual tradition of teaching, extending, and rethinking mathematics—that is, we should read it philologically.

The Fumigation of Citrus Trees in Palestine

1925 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. E. Bodkin
Keyword(s):  
Tenth Century ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
Bitter Orange ◽  
Northern India ◽  
Jacques De Vitry ◽  
Citrus Trees

The cultivation of citrus trees in Palestine is by no means modern, for as far back as the tenth century A.D. the Arabs discovered the “ bitter orange ” in Northern India, and it was, in all probabllity, brought into this country shortly afterwards. Jacques de Vitry, who made a visit to Palestine in the 13th century, mentions several varieties of citrus.

A Tolerantia no século XIII: uma breve revisão bibliográfica sobre as Minorias na Península Ibérica

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Léo Araújo Lacerda
Keyword(s):  
13Th Century ◽  
Alfonso X ◽  
Medieval Spain ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Península Ibérica

Este artigo objetiva elaborar uma breve revisão bibliográfica sobre a temática das minorias étnico-religiosas, sefarditas e mudéjares, no século XIII, no contexto Ibérico, ao mesmo tempo em que apresenta algumas discussões referentes à tolerância atribuída à Alfonso X, rei de Castela e Leão (1252-1284). Com isso, procura-se expor os limites da (in)tolerância manifestada pelo rei Sábio a fim de aprofundar o debate ressaltando os aspectos conflitivos do relacionamento entre cristãos, judeus e muçulmanos.Palavras-chaves: Tolerância; Convivência; Espanha Medieval; Século XIII.AbstractThis article aims to elaborate a brief bibliographical review about the theme of ethnic-religious, Sephardic and Mudejar minorities in the 13th century, in the Iberian context, while presenting some discussions regarding the tolerance attributed to Alfonso X, king of Castile and León (1252-1284). In this way, we seek to expose the limits of (in) tolerance manifested by the Wise King in order to deepen the debate by highlighting the conflicting aspects of the relationship between Christians, Jews and Muslims.Keywords: Tolerance; Coexistence; Medieval Spain; 13th Century.

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