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Late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Iberian Peninsula and Western Mediterranean. Urban and Economic History. Maritime History. Trade, merchants and banking. Commercial and financial techniques
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November 2001 - present
University of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain
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- Teaching and research in Medieval History
September 1999 - October 2001
January 1991 - August 1999
Education
September 1990 - March 1996
September 1985 - August 1990
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Esta obra es un libro colectivo que aborda, en diez capítulos elaborados por expertos en historia urbana, diversos aspectos sociales, económicos y territoriales que se verificaron en torno a las ciudades bajomedievales de la península ibérica. La referencia al Bajo Medievo debe entenderse en sentido amplio: si las alusiones cronológicas más antigua...
Este capítulo tiene dos objetivos. Por un lado, abordar una preocupación historiográfica habitual cuando se tratan temas de comercio y mercaderes: definir quiénes son estos mercaderes, cómo diferenciarlos en sectores y qué criterios seguir a la hora de jerarquizarlos entre grandes, medianos y pequeños. Por otro lado, ofrecer un examen investigador...
El texto aborda los vínculos frontera-comercio en los reinos hispánicos de los siglos XIII-XV o, por expresarlo con más detalle, las implicaciones para los intercambios de las situaciones fronterizas y, al revés, los efectos sobre la propia frontera de dichos intercambios. Se divide en dos partes. La primera resume algunas perspectivas globales de...
El libro recoge treinta y dos de las aportaciones que diferentes expertos presentaron al Congreso Internacional Alfonso X: el universo político y cultural de un reinado, celebrado en Toledo entre el 19 y el 21 de octubre de 2022. Fue uno de los muchos actos organizados en la ciudad para conmemorar el VIII Centenario del nacimiento del monarca y al...
This chapter analyses foreign trade and trade routes in the Iberian Peninsula between the eleventh and the fifteenth centuries. It overviews the dual circumstances of the Christian kingdoms and of the Muslim al-Andalus over the long term, although it focuses especially on the period between the thirteenth and the fifteenth centuries, and on events...
The article analyzes the trade between Valencia and Sardinia in the fifteenth century, although it starts from the conquest of Sardinia by the Crown of Aragon as an unavoidable framework to understand the evolution until the end of the Middle Ages. The text contextualizes the bilateral trade within more general debates and points out the interest o...
The article analyses twenty fiscal and notarial documents issued in the city of Valencia between 1459 and 1505, which refer to the maritime transport of alum. It begins by summarising the main characteristics of the sources, both the so-called "manifest de mar" (a customs source on maritime import trade) and the collection of records of the notary...
The aim of the article is to analyze the economic activities that took place in the medieval buildings known as merchants’ exchanges (llotges), by using as an example the llotja of València in the 14th and especially the 15th centuries. Four main aspects are examined: 1) as an introduction, the meaning of the llotja of València as a material and sy...
This article analyses the urban trade in the Late Middle Ages from two
perspectives: one, the observation of the factors that determined the everyday
life of this trade; two, the analysis of the agents who were involved in it, mainly
merchants. The text begins with some reflections on the meaning of the history
of everyday life and with a discussio...
El libro recoge los principales resultados de la tesis doctoral del autor. En esta investigó las conexiones comerciales, financieras e industriales definidas entre Valencia y el centro-norte de la actual Italia (la Lombardía, la Liguria, el Véneto, la Toscana y el Lacio) en los siglos XIV-XVI y las condiciones humanas, políticas y fiscales que las...
The aim of the paper is to analyse the contrasts ans parallels between economic ties and political boundaries in the late Middle Ages. It is studied the case of the merchant relationships between Castile and Valencia, in the Crown of Aragon, during the XVth century. These relationships were constantly characterized, on the one hand, by the continui...
Este libro colectivo estudia el mundo marítimo y sus protagonistas con una perspectiva interdisciplinar y de larga duración, desde el final de los tiempos medievales hasta la contemporaneidad. Incluye ocho artículos escritos por personas expertas en Historia, Antropología, Archivos y Museos. Los capítulos confrontan argumentos, fuentes e hipótesis...
L'objectif de cet article est d'analyser les importations de pastel à Barcelone et Valence à la fin du Moyen Âge. L'étude fait le point sur l'historiographie sur ce sujet et fournit une documentation inédite. Il est structuré en deux parties. Le premier examine l'évolution des importations entre les XIIIe et XVe siècles et se concentre notamment su...
Lo studio esamina il movimento portuale di Valenza durante il XV secolo come elemento che permette riflettere le varie reti marittime e i diversi mercati che si sono concentrati sulla città. A tal scopo, si è realizzata una ricerca diretta in archivio, essenzialmente riferita alla seconda metà del XV secolo. Si sono raccolti anche dati di varia nat...
The development of Valencia from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century allowed the city to occupy a remarkable position in the maritime routes that passed through the eastern Iberian coast. This was due to the use made of the port of Valencia by ships from different origins: from the rest of the Crown of Aragon (mainly Catalans and Majorcans), fr...
Este artículo examina la presencia de los mercaderes toledanos en los reinos hispánicos en el periodo 1475-1520. Se basa esencialmente en el observatorio que ofrecen la ciudad de Valencia y sus fuentes, donde menudean las citas de actividades toledanas. Comienza con un balance contextual de las familias y las compañías que protagonizaron el comerci...
The aim of this study is to compare four Castilian cities (Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo and Seville), based on primary and secondary sources above all in the period between the fifteenth century and the beginning of the sixteenth. The basis for the comparison is double: 1) The analysis of the composition of merchants groups in each city, both in quan...
This article analyses the rice trade between Valencia and Flanders from the late fourteenth to the end of the fifteenth century. That such an analysis is possible at all due to the information revealed by Valencian sources and by the documents left to us by the foreign agents (overwhelmingly Italian merchants) who took an interest in Valencia. The...
The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade around Europe 1300-1600 explores the links between maritime trading networks around Europe, from the Mediterranean and the Atlantic to the North and Baltic Seas. Maritime trade routes connected diverse geographical and cultural spheres, contributing to a more integrated Europe in both cultural and material t...
This research analyses the rice trade between Valencia and Flanders from the late fourteenth to the end of the fifteenth century. That such an analysis is possible at all due to the information revealed by Valencian sources and by the documents left to us by the foreign agents (overwhelmingly Italian merchants) who took an interest in Valencia. The...
The article makes a balance on the relations established, in the city of Valencia, by the native members of the society and the foreign merchants installed there during the fourteenth and the fifteenth centuries. This balance is based on the specific sources and research on the subject, but it also tries to compare the Valencian case with the other...
The article aims to examine the role of ports in the Kingdom of Valencia in the process of economic development of the territory in the 15th century. Asserting the importance of medieval maritime activity in this area, the research begins with a descriptive ap-proach to its port geography. The author’s analysis continues through four points: the in...
Urban quarters were organized in the Crown of Aragon at the end of the Middle Ages around parishes and, in some cities, around other types of structures. In all cases, as in the rest of Western Europe, these quarters were units with administrative, fiscal and religious functions. They also became places of distribution of urban society, because the...
The aim of the article is to synthesize the main realities attested on the production and trade of alum in the Christian Spanish kingdoms between the late Middle Ages and early Modern period. These aspects are described mainly for old crowns of Castile and Aragon thanks to three points : 1. The evolution of medieval Spanish news on alum which are a...
El artículo analiza la influencia territorial de la economía mercantil de Valladolid y las funciones que esta desempeñó en Castilla, dentro del período de transición entre el siglo XV y el XVI. Plasma una investigación que combina, por un lado, el estado de la cuestión bibliográfica y la labor archivística y, por el otro, informaciones extraídas de...
The arlicle analyses the historiographic debate about the relations between great and small trade during the later Middle Ages. It does so emphasising the social and economic roie of the small trade, and the eiements of integration and coordination between botb categories of rnarket. With this aim, the text takes the Crown of Aragon as its referenc...
El artículo comienza resumiendo lo que son las características principales del comercio del Mediterráneo occidental entre los siglos XIII y XV, con especial atención a la evolución cronológica global y a sus aspectos estructurales o de fondo. Continúa analizando algunas cuestiones historiográficas y de cómo se ha desarrollado y transformado la perc...
RESUMEN: En la economía de la Baja Edad Media, la crisis del comercio internacional ha sido un asunto muy debatido por los historiadores. El artículo comienza defendiendo que, en este terreno, la noción de crisis que parece más adecuada es la que identifica este concepto con cambio o transformación de larga duración. A partir de aquí, el autor real...
L’article pretén oferir una síntesi de la funció comercial de la costa castellonenca durant la Baixa Edat Mitjana, que siga global des de la perspectiva territorial i cronològica i que combine determinades aportacions de la bibliografia amb l’observació de documents inèdits. Amb aquesta intenció, l’anàlisi se centra en dos elements bàsics: primer,...
This article studies the functioning of Venetian galere da mercato along one of the coastlines where they operated, that of Valencia. The system was known to have seven routes during the XIVth to the XVIth centuries and was used to collect goods at the point of arrival. The first galleys which carne to the port of Valencia (from Flanders) were in 1...
