Papers by Antonio Romero Zafra
Milites Dei. Las órdenes militares: Encaje social y manifestaciones religiosas (XLVIII Semana Internacional de Estudios Medievales. Estella-Lizarra. 19/22 de julio de 2022). Pamplona, Gobierno de Navarra, 2023, pp. 377-387, 2023
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Poder y poderes en la Edad Media. Monografías de la Sociedad Española de Estudios Medievales (16) , 2021
Este trabajo estudia la presencia y el poder que la Orden de Calatrava conservaba en una de sus e... more Este trabajo estudia la presencia y el poder que la Orden de Calatrava conservaba en una de sus encomiendas andaluzas a comienzos del siglo XVI. Para ello, se ha recurrido a documentación señorial incorporada a los fondos del archivo de la Casa Ducal de Medinaceli, concretamente en los documentos que recogen los autos de la desmembración de la encomienda de Sabiote. Además de poner en valor la documentación moderna a la hora de conocer la realidad medieval de esta institución religioso-militar, también puede analizarse su importancia político-legislativa, fiscal y militar en uno de sus dominios.
This work studies the presence and power that the Order of Calatrava conserved in one of its Andalusian encomiendas at the beginning of the 16th century. To do this, we have resorted to stately documentation incorporated into the archives of the Ducal House of Medinaceli, specifically in the documents that collect the records of the dismemberment of the encomienda de Sabiote. In addition to putting modern documentation in value when it comes to knowing the medieval reality of this religious-military institution, its political-legislative, fiscal and military importance in one of its domains can also be analyzed.
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Conferences, Workshops, Talks and Lectures by Antonio Romero Zafra
International Meetings of the Middle Ages in Nájera have been proposed as an international congre... more International Meetings of the Middle Ages in Nájera have been proposed as an international congress in the field of study and dissemination of Medieval History since 2003.
This NEIM 2021 edition will take place in an offsite virtual environment, due to COVID'19.
Social theory and historical research about the use of space in towns has shown that the production of space was a gradual process. Urban space is not simply a demarcated arena, bound perhaps by something substantial like a wall and shaped by a built environment, but it was also the result of an on-going process of production. The memory of a physical border, cultural traditions of citizens, and social practices taking place within the city shaped urban space. The key to understanding this ordering powerlines in the concept of relational space, which is fundamental to understanding cultural transfers. Space is not a rigid container, but rather the result of construction processes and thus relational. Relational space emerges through connections between various objects, people, concepts, rules and places, which is also a fundamental concept to understanding cultural transfers. Thus, it has physical and social or cultural components. Furthermore, it was born of customs and laws but also driven by the demands of the streets. Space was 'lived' and produced by the people living in towns.
In this conference we will focus on the social use of urban space in the late medieval period, an era in which (the spatial centre of) many of the present-day European towns was shaped. It wants to study how urban space was produced, constrained, and defined between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries with a comparative European perspective. In this period, citizens challenged the power of territorial and ecclesiastical lords, and therefore urban communities acquired authority within certain spatial boundaries. But also within city walls space was highly contested. Spaces there became highly differentiated, laden with specific, if multiple meanings that could both signal and confer identity, status, and authority. Political contest, social change, and cultural constructions not only took place 'in urban space', but also produced space and emerged from prior spatial productions or constructions. The performance of rituals, prestigious building activities, the public punishment of citizens, etc. were the symbolic and spatial expression of the urban community, both acquiring power from its location and at the same time conferring power on that space.
Much of this has been studied from a top-down perspective: royal and ecclesiastical authorities, regional lords, or mighty urban families have defined urban space. Yet, recent research has shown that the bottom-up perspective is a valid one as well: ordinary citizens gave meaning to the places in which they lived, they created market space for economic activities, and they constructed houses or organized the cleaning and safety control of neighborhoods. This conference wants to combine both perspectives. Sometimes the interests of commoners collided with those of the authorities (for instance when military needs forced them to undertake important building activities), on other occasions social conflict arose about the use of space (for instance when citizens appropriated space during political or religious conflicts). As a result, this conference is not so much about how the urban space looked like, but more about how it was shaped, used and lived by citizens, both the governors of towns as well as their inhabitants.
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This work studies the presence and power that the Order of Calatrava conserved in one of its Andalusian encomiendas at the beginning of the 16th century. To do this, we have resorted to stately documentation incorporated into the archives of the Ducal House of Medinaceli, specifically in the documents that collect the records of the dismemberment of the encomienda de Sabiote. In addition to putting modern documentation in value when it comes to knowing the medieval reality of this religious-military institution, its political-legislative, fiscal and military importance in one of its domains can also be analyzed.
Conferences, Workshops, Talks and Lectures by Antonio Romero Zafra
This NEIM 2021 edition will take place in an offsite virtual environment, due to COVID'19.
Social theory and historical research about the use of space in towns has shown that the production of space was a gradual process. Urban space is not simply a demarcated arena, bound perhaps by something substantial like a wall and shaped by a built environment, but it was also the result of an on-going process of production. The memory of a physical border, cultural traditions of citizens, and social practices taking place within the city shaped urban space. The key to understanding this ordering powerlines in the concept of relational space, which is fundamental to understanding cultural transfers. Space is not a rigid container, but rather the result of construction processes and thus relational. Relational space emerges through connections between various objects, people, concepts, rules and places, which is also a fundamental concept to understanding cultural transfers. Thus, it has physical and social or cultural components. Furthermore, it was born of customs and laws but also driven by the demands of the streets. Space was 'lived' and produced by the people living in towns.
In this conference we will focus on the social use of urban space in the late medieval period, an era in which (the spatial centre of) many of the present-day European towns was shaped. It wants to study how urban space was produced, constrained, and defined between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries with a comparative European perspective. In this period, citizens challenged the power of territorial and ecclesiastical lords, and therefore urban communities acquired authority within certain spatial boundaries. But also within city walls space was highly contested. Spaces there became highly differentiated, laden with specific, if multiple meanings that could both signal and confer identity, status, and authority. Political contest, social change, and cultural constructions not only took place 'in urban space', but also produced space and emerged from prior spatial productions or constructions. The performance of rituals, prestigious building activities, the public punishment of citizens, etc. were the symbolic and spatial expression of the urban community, both acquiring power from its location and at the same time conferring power on that space.
Much of this has been studied from a top-down perspective: royal and ecclesiastical authorities, regional lords, or mighty urban families have defined urban space. Yet, recent research has shown that the bottom-up perspective is a valid one as well: ordinary citizens gave meaning to the places in which they lived, they created market space for economic activities, and they constructed houses or organized the cleaning and safety control of neighborhoods. This conference wants to combine both perspectives. Sometimes the interests of commoners collided with those of the authorities (for instance when military needs forced them to undertake important building activities), on other occasions social conflict arose about the use of space (for instance when citizens appropriated space during political or religious conflicts). As a result, this conference is not so much about how the urban space looked like, but more about how it was shaped, used and lived by citizens, both the governors of towns as well as their inhabitants.
This work studies the presence and power that the Order of Calatrava conserved in one of its Andalusian encomiendas at the beginning of the 16th century. To do this, we have resorted to stately documentation incorporated into the archives of the Ducal House of Medinaceli, specifically in the documents that collect the records of the dismemberment of the encomienda de Sabiote. In addition to putting modern documentation in value when it comes to knowing the medieval reality of this religious-military institution, its political-legislative, fiscal and military importance in one of its domains can also be analyzed.
This NEIM 2021 edition will take place in an offsite virtual environment, due to COVID'19.
Social theory and historical research about the use of space in towns has shown that the production of space was a gradual process. Urban space is not simply a demarcated arena, bound perhaps by something substantial like a wall and shaped by a built environment, but it was also the result of an on-going process of production. The memory of a physical border, cultural traditions of citizens, and social practices taking place within the city shaped urban space. The key to understanding this ordering powerlines in the concept of relational space, which is fundamental to understanding cultural transfers. Space is not a rigid container, but rather the result of construction processes and thus relational. Relational space emerges through connections between various objects, people, concepts, rules and places, which is also a fundamental concept to understanding cultural transfers. Thus, it has physical and social or cultural components. Furthermore, it was born of customs and laws but also driven by the demands of the streets. Space was 'lived' and produced by the people living in towns.
In this conference we will focus on the social use of urban space in the late medieval period, an era in which (the spatial centre of) many of the present-day European towns was shaped. It wants to study how urban space was produced, constrained, and defined between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries with a comparative European perspective. In this period, citizens challenged the power of territorial and ecclesiastical lords, and therefore urban communities acquired authority within certain spatial boundaries. But also within city walls space was highly contested. Spaces there became highly differentiated, laden with specific, if multiple meanings that could both signal and confer identity, status, and authority. Political contest, social change, and cultural constructions not only took place 'in urban space', but also produced space and emerged from prior spatial productions or constructions. The performance of rituals, prestigious building activities, the public punishment of citizens, etc. were the symbolic and spatial expression of the urban community, both acquiring power from its location and at the same time conferring power on that space.
Much of this has been studied from a top-down perspective: royal and ecclesiastical authorities, regional lords, or mighty urban families have defined urban space. Yet, recent research has shown that the bottom-up perspective is a valid one as well: ordinary citizens gave meaning to the places in which they lived, they created market space for economic activities, and they constructed houses or organized the cleaning and safety control of neighborhoods. This conference wants to combine both perspectives. Sometimes the interests of commoners collided with those of the authorities (for instance when military needs forced them to undertake important building activities), on other occasions social conflict arose about the use of space (for instance when citizens appropriated space during political or religious conflicts). As a result, this conference is not so much about how the urban space looked like, but more about how it was shaped, used and lived by citizens, both the governors of towns as well as their inhabitants.