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Collective identities and group solidarities in the late Middle Ages

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Title: Collective identities and group solidarities in the late Middle Ages ('Identidades colectivas y solidaridades de grupo en la baja edad media')

Principal investigator: Flocel Sabaté Curull

Project reference: PID2022-136257NB-I00

Call: Proyectos de generación de conocimiento 2022. Investigación No Orientada Tipo B

Funding body: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación

Start date: 2023 End date: 2025

Summary

ICYSG studies expressions of late-medieval collective identity (faction, universitas, municipality, Crown, nation, Cortes, General, estate,
etc.) and its mechanisms, in order to specify its functioning as a form of group solidarities and to assess its contents, intersection and permeability, and the fit between the various existing groups, as well as its transversality between the various social and estate bodies. It
focusses on the Iberian framework, with special attention to the Crown of Aragon, due to its features of political structure (force of the estates and invoked representativeness of municipalities and General Diputations in front to a weak monarchy). The ICYSG culminates the previous journey progressively carried out by the promotor group in the study of power; it is interdisciplinary (history, art history, philology, history of law, philosophy and architecture); and its methodology incorporates analysis vectors from social sciences (perception, from human geography; internal assumption, from psychology; common cultural policies from sociology; and the perspectives of solidarity and community from anthropology). The researchers will work with unpublished data from documentary, literary and artistic sources, which will result in a database shared, managed and safeguarded by the promotor group in the UdL The general objectives are: 1) To verify the concepts of collective identity and group solidarity; 2) To consider the exercise of power as a relationship between social bodies; 3) To contrast the notion of representativeness in the various levels of generation of collective identities; 4) To confirm that the word, language and image do not merely exercise a vehicular function but also generate realities imbricated in the exercise of power between social bodies.

The specific objectives analyse and verify the functioning of collective identities in each field: contractual monarchy; estate representativeness; symbolic and architectural visualisation of power; positions on the basis of gender, estate, training (Studium Generale), slavery, Jewish identity or social inequality; cohesive function of Christianity as a social ideology. The activities have been
programmed using the three-year schedule. The research team is made up of 15 researchers (8 members from the promotor group at the UdL, 3 from Univ. San Jorge de Zaragoza, 1 Univ. Internacional de Catalunya, 1 UJI, 2 UIB), assisted by 16 members of the working group (8 renowned international researchers, 2 renowned national researchers, 1 inv. Post. Margarita Salas and 5 in pre-doctoral training). The researchers debate advances through three working seminars and an international congress enables results to be compared with groups working on related topics in other countries. Eight possible critical points have been identified for which the contingency plan has been prepared. The promotor groups capacity for training supports the outlook of incorporating personnel in doctoral studies. The results will be openly presented on-line and discussed in the leading international forums; they will rise to a collective book by a publisher recognised prestige, and to 63 articles and chapters in books and in top quartile journals and publishers in high positions in the SPI. A plan is contemplated to transfer results through social media and dissemination activities.

Activities

Workshop: Collective identities and group solidarities in the late Middle Ages with the participation of the members of our research project: Flocel Sabaté (IP-Universitat de Lleida), Carles Rabassa (Universitat Jaume I), Albert Cassanyes (Universitat de les Illes Balears), Isabel Grifoll (Universitat de Lleida) and Alberto Velasco (Universitat de Lleida).

Date: 5-7 June 2024

Results

PUBLICATIONS:

Albert Cassanyes Roig. "Els beneficis de les esglésies foranes mallorquines a finals del segle XIV", Randa, 90 (2023), p. 43-55.
Albert Cassanyes Roig, "Rumors, mentides i manipulacions: notícies falses i creació d'opinió durant la Germania de Mallorca (1521-1523)", Recerques. Història, economia, cultura, 83 (2023), p. 33-55. https://doi.org/10.31009/recerques.2023.i83.03
Albert Cassanyes Roig, "Idas y venidas por el Mediterráneo: enviados hispánicos en la Curia Romana durante el pontificado de Eugenio IV (1431-1447)", Cauriensia, 18 (2023), p. 81-100. https://doi.org/10.17398/2340-4256.18.81
Albert Cassanyes Roig, "Where canons live: the canonical residences in Majorca (13th to 15th centuries)", Carthaginensia, 77 (2024), p. 247-267.
Paolo Evangelisti, "Measures of Faith. Forms and Sizes of Equilibrium from Augustine to the Franciscan Textuality", Picenum Seraphicum-Rivista di studi storici e francescani, 37 (2023), p. 7-37.

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El poder vivido en la Baja Edad Media: percepción, representación y expresividad en la gestión y la recepción del poder

Principal investigator: Flocel Sabaté Curull

Project reference: PID2019-104085GB-I00

Call: Proyectos I+D+i 2019 PGC Tipo B

Funding body: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación

Start date: 01/06/2020 End date: 31/05/2023

Activities:

- Documentary extraction, GIS work and preparation of historical planimetry of Zaragoza. Publication

- Scientific meeting "Experiencing Power in the Middle Ages” (Lleida online, 28/06/2021-1/07/2021).

- Virtual seminar "Cerdeña Giudicale y la Corona de Aragón: una difícil y dinámica experiencia del poder confrontado” by Luciano Gallinari ( 2, 9 and 23 March 2021).

- Virtual seminar “El poder de la moneda en el pensamiento político-económico de Francesc Eiximenis, franciscano del siglo XIV" by Paolo Evangelisti. (5/04/2022).

- Scientific meeting "Suffering Power in the Middle Ages” (Lleida online, 27-29/07/2022).

Some publications:

- Cantera, E., “Algunas notas acerca de Jaco Cachopo, procurador de las aljamas de los judíos de Castilla a fines del siglo XV” en eHumanista/Conversos 8 (2020), pp. 184-198. ISSN: 1540-5877.

- Cantera, E., “Peste negra y judíos: una panorámica general acerca de la incidencia de la epidemia en el mundo judío occidental”, Cuadernos del CEMYR, 30 (2022), pp. 109-148. ISSN: 1135-125X.

- Cassanyes, A., “Antoni Cerdà, bisbe de Lleida (1390-1459)” en Randa, 84 (2020), pp. 25-41. ISBN: 977021059900.

- Lampurlanés, I., “Pharetra fidei contra iudaeos: Sus fuentes y una edición de trabajo” en Sefarad, 80/2 (2020), pp. 315-364. eISNN: 0037-0894.

- Motis, M. A., “El linaje de los Abnuba, mercaderes de équidos de la aljama judía de Barbastro (1390-1415). Una aproximación prosopográfica” en TAMID: Revista Catalana Anual d´Estudis Hebraics, 15 (2020), pp. 283-318. eISSN: 2013-4029.

- Motis, M. A. “Madrinas y nodrizas en las comunidades judeoconversas de Aragón en el siglo XV”, en Etnicidad, identidad y ciudadanía. Las sociedades de ayer y hoy, Dykinson, Madrid, 2022, pp. 178-210.

- Motis, M. Á.; Holst, J., “Universo mental y socioeconómico de las judeoconversas de Daroca (Zaragoza) en el siglo XV”, en Humanismo poliédrico: nuevas apuestas de estética, arte, género y ciencias sociales, Dykinson, Madrid, 2022 pp. 758-782.

- Motis, M. A., Ruiz-Varona, A., Pérez-López, L. “Urban morphology and functional Hierarchy of the Jewish Quartier of Zaragoza (Spain) at the End of the fifteenth century”, en Journal of Urban History (2023), pp. 1-28. ISSN: 1552-6771.

- Sabaté, F., “Hombres de la villa y hombres de fuera de la villa en Piera durante la Baja Edad Media”, Historia Agraria, 85 (2021), p. 1-31. ISSN: 1139-1472, ISBN: 9782503579108.

- Stöber, K., Buch der Taten, Lit-Verlag, Munich, 2021, 348p. ISBN: 9783643913883.

- Soler, M., Bertini, A., Colesanti, G.T. (eds.), “La rete monástica nel tessuto urbano di Napoli (secc. XII-XVI)” en SVMMA. Revista de Cultures Medievals, 15 (2020), pp. 55-73. eISSN: 2014-7023.

Cartografía histórica y análisis territorial en la Europa meridional. Una metodología para comprender y dar a conocer el paisaje histórico, la sociedad y la actividad económica (CARTHISTEM)

Principal investigator: Jordi de Bolós Masclans

Project reference: RTI2018-094543-B-I00

Call: Proyectos de I+D+i "Retos Investigación" 2018