This article analyses the economic administration of the collegiate church of Santa Maria la Mayor in Zaragoza, commonly known as El Pilar, during the priory of Juan Martinez de Moriello (1385-1395). This collegiate church had three different financial administrations: the Prepositura, the Anniversaries, and the Fabrica. Despite this, the priory in question only preserves account books for the first two administrations in the Chapter Archive of El Pilar. These books, which were designed as an instrument for preserving historical and economic memory, are also a valuable source for understanding Zaragoza society at the end of the 14th century.
Leonese charters from the tenth to twelfth centuries frequently show the agency of local communities, identified mainly by the terms concejo and colacion. Some legal acts were read and heard before the assemblies of those communities and this was one of the most usual actions in which they appear. A significant transformation in the second half of the eleventh century has been revealed, visible in the forms of representation and in the relationship between communities and local churches. At the same time, it can be seen how the presence of communities in these acts was linked to the interests of local individuals as part of their strategies for legitimisation and consensus building in contexts of social competition. In short, these were acts of political communication at the local level.
This paper analyses the operation of the documentary expedition office of queen Maria of Castile, mainly using chancery notes. Thus, the aim is to remark the importance of the good praxis in the making of the product emanated from this office, known as well as valued by royal officers and subjects, especially giving value to the royal written word, in this case, transmitted by the queen. Furthermore, it emphasises how the queen's authority was shown through scripture and the implication of queen Maria with that management technology.
The frontier between Christians and Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages was marked by violence. Its gravest consequence was captivity, the outcome of constant raids from both sides of the border. For this reason, prisoners entrusted themselves to Santo Domingo de Silos in order to escape. This was an exceptional event that could only be explained by its supernatural condition, as reflected in the Mir & aacute;culos romanzados by Pedro Marin (13th century). Our purpose is to analyze both the historical information about this phenomenon transmitted through the miracles and its religious reinterpretation. To this end, we will focus our analysis on the narratives within this corpus connected to the frontier of the Kingdom of C & oacute;rdoba.
This article exposes, with relevant unpublished documentation, the little-known ecclesiastical life of this character -who became a canon, a royal chaplain and almost an archbishop- before his notorious secular and bellicose period as a feudal lord, in a very turbulent time for Galicia and the entire Iberian Peninsula. It will be interesting not only to delve into his biography -which is iconic of the European Late Middle Ages, as it brings together many of its features in his person- but also to better understand the inseparable relationships between the ecclesiastical and secular dimensions in that period.
