Iberia in the Fourteenth Century
Sponsoring Organization(s)
14th Century Society; American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain (AARHMS)
Organizer Name
Maya Soifer Irish
Organizer Affiliation
Rice Univ.
Presider Name
Maya Soifer Irish
Paper Title 1
Alfonso XI at 1350: A Missed Royalist Opportunity?
Presenter 1 Name
Nicolás Agrait
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Long Island Univ.-Brooklyn Campus
Paper Title 2
Merchants, Monarchs, and Mapmakers: The Pulse of the Fourteenth Century at the Aragonese Court
Presenter 2 Name
Montserrat Piera
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Temple Univ.
Paper Title 3
Iberia and Avignon: Artistic Exchange during the Avignon Papacy and the Papal Schism
Presenter 3 Name
Amelia Roché Hyde
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Courtauld Institute of Art
Start Date
10-5-2019 10:00 AM
Session Location
Bernhard 106
Description
The fourteenth century in the Iberian Peninsula did not lack in dramatic crises and transformations. The wars involving Castile, Aragon, Portugal, and Granada, royal minorities, bloody civil wars, violence between noble factions, attacks on religious minorities, and the devastation of the Black Death and the famine shook the Iberian realms to the core. But the fourteenth century was also the time of reform and transition: the rise of new administrative structures, the maturation of representative assemblies, the coming to power of a new dynasty in Castile, and Aragon’s continuing expansion into the Mediterranean. The session seeks papers that highlight the significance of the fourteenth century in Iberia’s political, military, economic, social, and cultural development. Maya Soifer Irish
Iberia in the Fourteenth Century
Bernhard 106
The fourteenth century in the Iberian Peninsula did not lack in dramatic crises and transformations. The wars involving Castile, Aragon, Portugal, and Granada, royal minorities, bloody civil wars, violence between noble factions, attacks on religious minorities, and the devastation of the Black Death and the famine shook the Iberian realms to the core. But the fourteenth century was also the time of reform and transition: the rise of new administrative structures, the maturation of representative assemblies, the coming to power of a new dynasty in Castile, and Aragon’s continuing expansion into the Mediterranean. The session seeks papers that highlight the significance of the fourteenth century in Iberia’s political, military, economic, social, and cultural development. Maya Soifer Irish