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Astrology in the Middle Ages was considered a branch of the magical arts, one informed by Jewish and Muslim scientific knowledge in Muslim Spain. As such it was deeply troubling to some Church authorities. Using the stars and planets to divine the future ran counter to the orthodox Christian notion that human beings have free will, and some clerical authorities argued that it almost certainly entailed the summoning of spiritual forces considered diabolical. We know that occult beliefs and practices became widespread in the later Middle Ages, but there is much about the phenomenon that we do not understand. For instance, how deeply did occult beliefs penetrate courtly culture and what exactly did those in positions of power hope to gain by interacting with the occult? In A Kingdom of Stargazers, Michael A. Ryan examines the interest in astrology in the Iberian kingdom of Aragon, where ideas about magic and the occult were deeply intertwined with notions of power, authority, and providence.Ryan focuses on the reigns of Pere III (1336-1387) and his sons Joan I (1387-1395) and Martí I (1395-1410). Pere and Joan spent lavish amounts of money on astrological writings, and astrologers held great sway within their courts. When Martí I took the throne, however, he was determined to purge Joan's courtiers and return to religious orthodoxy. As Ryan shows, the appeal of astrology to those in power was clear: predicting the future through divination was a valuable tool for addressing the extraordinary problems-political, religious, demographic-plaguing Europe in the fourteenth century. Meanwhile, the kings' contemporaries within the noble, ecclesiastical, and mercantile elite had their own reasons for wanting to know what the future held, but their engagement with the occult was directly related to the amount of power and authority the monarch exhibited and applied. A Kingdom of Stargazers joins a growing body of scholarship that explores the mixing of religious and magical ideas in the late Middle Ages.

Astrology and politics --- Prophecies (Occultism) --- Divination --- Astrology, Spanish --- Politics, Practical --- Prophecies (Occult sciences) --- Occultism --- Augury --- Soothsaying --- Worship --- Spanish astrology --- History --- Aragon (Spain) --- Comunidad Autónoma de Aragón (Spain) --- Gobierno de Aragón (Spain) --- Aragonija (Spain) --- Aragó (Spain) --- Арагон (Spain) --- Aragonie (Spain) --- Comunôtât ôtonoma d'Aragon (Spain) --- Comunidat Autonoma d'Aragón (Spain) --- Comunitat Autònoma d'Aragó (Spain) --- Araqon (Spain) --- Arahon (Spain) --- Aragonské autonomní společenství (Spain) --- Aragonien (Spain) --- Αραγονία (Spain) --- Aragonia (Spain) --- Αραγών (Spain) --- Αραγωνία (Spain) --- Aragono (Spain) --- Comuniá Autónoma d'Aragón (Spain) --- Aragoi (Spain) --- Aragoiko Autonomia Erkidegoa (Spain) --- Arragon (Spain) --- An Aragóin (Spain) --- Aragóin (Spain) --- Comhphobal na hAragóine (Spain) --- Aragona (Spain) --- אראגון (Spain) --- קהילה האוטונומית של אראגון (Spain) --- Ḳehilah ha-oṭonomit shel Aragon (Spain) --- Communitas Autonoma Aragoniae (Spain) --- Aragonas (Spain) --- Арагон орон (Spain) --- Aragon oron (Spain) --- Aragon-a (Spain) --- Kings and rulers. --- History of Spain --- anno 1200-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Aragon

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In Self-Fashioning and Assumptions of Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia , editor Laura Delbrugge and contributors Jaume Aurell, David Gugel, Michael Harney, Daniel Hartnett, Mark Johnston, Albert Lloret, Montserrat Piera, Zita Rohr, Núria Silleras-Fernández, Caroline Smith, Wendell P. Smith, and Lesley Twomey explore the applicability of Stephen Greenblatt's self-fashioning theory, framed in Elizabethan England, to medieval and early modern Portugal, Aragon, and Castile. Chapters examine self-fashioning efforts by monarchs, religious converts, nobles, commoners, and clergy in the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries to establish the presence of self-identity creation in many new contexts beyond that explored in Greenblatt's Renaissance Self-Fashioning , greatly expanding the understanding of self-fashioning on diverse aspects of identity creation in late medieval and early modern Iberia.

History of civilization --- History of Southern Europe --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Portugal --- Spain --- Self --- Identity (Psychology) --- Manners and customs. --- Social aspects --- History. --- Social aspects. --- Aragon (Spain) --- Castile (Spain) --- Iberian Peninsula --- Europe --- Portugal. --- Social life and customs. --- Personal identity --- Personality --- Ego (Psychology) --- Individuality --- Consciousness --- Mind and body --- Thought and thinking --- Will --- Hispania (Iberian Peninsula) --- Hispánica, Península --- Iberia (Iberian Peninsula) --- Ibérica, Península --- Península Hispánica --- Península Ibérica --- Castile --- Castilla (Spain) --- Comunidad Autónoma de Aragón (Spain) --- Gobierno de Aragón (Spain) --- Aragonija (Spain) --- Aragó (Spain) --- Арагон (Spain) --- Aragonie (Spain) --- Comunôtât ôtonoma d'Aragon (Spain) --- Comunidat Autonoma d'Aragón (Spain) --- Comunitat Autònoma d'Aragó (Spain) --- Araqon (Spain) --- Arahon (Spain) --- Aragonské autonomní společenství (Spain) --- Aragonien (Spain) --- Αραγονία (Spain) --- Aragonia (Spain) --- Αραγών (Spain) --- Αραγωνία (Spain) --- Aragono (Spain) --- Comuniá Autónoma d'Aragón (Spain) --- Aragoi (Spain) --- Aragoiko Autonomia Erkidegoa (Spain) --- Arragon (Spain) --- An Aragóin (Spain) --- Aragóin (Spain) --- Comhphobal na hAragóine (Spain) --- Aragona (Spain) --- אראגון (Spain) --- קהילה האוטונומית של אראגון (Spain) --- Ḳehilah ha-oṭonomit shel Aragon (Spain) --- Communitas Autonoma Aragoniae (Spain) --- Aragonas (Spain) --- Арагон орон (Spain) --- Aragon oron (Spain) --- Aragon-a (Spain)

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This work, in honour of Elena Lourie, focuses on various areas of interaction between Jews, Muslims and Christians in the late medieval Crown of Aragon and its environs. Topics include war, military campaigns, government, politics, and economics.

Jews --- Muslims --- Christians --- History --- Aragon (Spain) --- Spain --- Ethnic relations --- 711-1516 --- Religious adherents --- Mohammedans --- Moors (People) --- Moslems --- Muhammadans --- Musalmans --- Mussalmans --- Mussulmans --- Mussulmen --- Islam --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Semites --- Judaism --- History. --- Comunidad Autónoma de Aragón (Spain) --- Gobierno de Aragón (Spain) --- Aragonija (Spain) --- Aragó (Spain) --- Арагон (Spain) --- Aragonie (Spain) --- Comunôtât ôtonoma d'Aragon (Spain) --- Comunidat Autonoma d'Aragón (Spain) --- Comunitat Autònoma d'Aragó (Spain) --- Araqon (Spain) --- Arahon (Spain) --- Aragonské autonomní společenství (Spain) --- Aragonien (Spain) --- Αραγονία (Spain) --- Aragonia (Spain) --- Αραγών (Spain) --- Αραγωνία (Spain) --- Aragono (Spain) --- Comuniá Autónoma d'Aragón (Spain) --- Aragoi (Spain) --- Aragoiko Autonomia Erkidegoa (Spain) --- Arragon (Spain) --- An Aragóin (Spain) --- Aragóin (Spain) --- Comhphobal na hAragóine (Spain) --- Aragona (Spain) --- אראגון (Spain) --- קהילה האוטונומית של אראגון (Spain) --- Ḳehilah ha-oṭonomit shel Aragon (Spain) --- Communitas Autonoma Aragoniae (Spain) --- Aragonas (Spain) --- Арагон орон (Spain) --- Aragon oron (Spain) --- Aragon-a (Spain) --- Ethnic relations. --- Jews - Spain - Aragon - History --- Muslims - Spain - Aragon - History --- Christians - Spain - Aragon - History --- Aragon (Spain) - History --- Aragon (Spain) - Ethnic relations --- Spain - History - 711-1516

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With their active apostolate of preaching and teaching, Dominican friars were important promoters of Latin Christianity in the borderlands of medieval Spain and North Africa. Historians have long assumed that their efforts to convert or persecute non-Christian populations played a major role in worsening relations between Christians, Muslims and Jews in the era of crusade and reconquista. This study sheds light on the topic by setting Dominican participation in celebrated but short-lived projects such as Arabic language studia or anti-Jewish theological disputations alongside day-to-day realities of mendicant life in the medieval Crown of Aragon. From old Catalan centers like Barcelona to newly conquered Valencia and Islamic North Africa, the author shows that Dominican friars were on the whole conservative educators and disciplinarians rather than innovative missionaries - ever concerned to protect the spiritual well-being of the faithful by means of preaching, censorship and maintenance of existing barriers to interfaith communications.

Christian church history --- History of Spain --- Dominicans --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1300-1399 --- Aragon --- Missions to Muslims --- Missions to Jews --- Missions auprès des musulmans --- Missions auprès des Juifs --- Dominicans. --- Missions auprès des musulmans --- Missions auprès des Juifs --- Jews --- Christianity and other religions --- Islam --- Muslims --- History --- Missions --- Judaism --- Relations --- Christianity --- Black Friars --- Friars Preachers --- FF. prêcheurs --- Frères prêcheurs --- Ordo Fratrum Praedicatorum --- Preaching Friars --- Predicadores --- Orden de Predicadores --- Frati predicatori --- Ordo Praedicatorum --- Dominikanie --- Zakon Kaznodziejski --- Prediger-Orden --- Zakon Ojców Dominikanów --- Zakon Dominikanów --- Ordre de saint Dominique --- Dominicains --- Order of St. Dominic --- Order of Preachers --- Dominikaner --- Dominicanos --- Padres Domínicos --- Dominican Fathers --- Ordem de São Domingos --- Ordem de S. Domingos --- Dominicos --- Domenicani --- Ordre des Frères-Prêcheurs --- Dominicanen --- Dominican Order --- Blackfriars --- Jacobins (Religious order) --- Ордэн дамініканаў --- Ordėn daminikanaŭ --- Dominikanci --- Доминикански орден --- Dominikanski orden --- Orde dels Predicadors --- Orde de Predicadors --- O.P. --- Dominics --- Orde Dominicà --- Orde dels Frares Predicadors --- Orde de Sant Domènec --- Домініканці --- Dominikant︠s︡i --- Ordine dei predicatori --- Ordine dei Frati predicatori --- History. --- Aragon (Spain) --- Comunidad Autónoma de Aragón (Spain) --- Gobierno de Aragón (Spain) --- Aragonija (Spain) --- Aragó (Spain) --- Арагон (Spain) --- Aragonie (Spain) --- Comunôtât ôtonoma d'Aragon (Spain) --- Comunidat Autonoma d'Aragón (Spain) --- Comunitat Autònoma d'Aragó (Spain) --- Araqon (Spain) --- Arahon (Spain) --- Aragonské autonomní společenství (Spain) --- Aragonien (Spain) --- Αραγονία (Spain) --- Aragonia (Spain) --- Αραγών (Spain) --- Αραγωνία (Spain) --- Aragono (Spain) --- Comuniá Autónoma d'Aragón (Spain) --- Aragoi (Spain) --- Aragoiko Autonomia Erkidegoa (Spain) --- Arragon (Spain) --- An Aragóin (Spain) --- Aragóin (Spain) --- Comhphobal na hAragóine (Spain) --- Aragona (Spain) --- אראגון (Spain) --- קהילה האוטונומית של אראגון (Spain) --- Ḳehilah ha-oṭonomit shel Aragon (Spain) --- Communitas Autonoma Aragoniae (Spain) --- Aragonas (Spain) --- Арагон орон (Spain) --- Aragon oron (Spain) --- Aragon-a (Spain) --- Church history. --- Histoire --- Aragon (Espagne) --- Histoire religieuse --- Ordre des Prêcheurs --- Arts and Humanities