Teofilo F. Ruiz

From Heaven to Earth

The Reordering of Castilian Society, 1150-1350

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Produktbeschreibung

Between the late twelfth century and the mid fourteenth, Castile saw a reordering of mental, spiritual, and physical space. Fresh ideas about sin and intercession coincided with new ways of representing the self and emerging perceptions of property as tangible. This radical shift in values or mentalités was most evident among certain social groups, including mercantile elites, affluent farmers, lower nobility, clerics, and literary figures--"middling sorts" whose outlooks and values were fast becoming normative. Drawing on such primary documents as wills, legal codes, land transactions, litigation records, chronicles, and literary works, Teofilo Ruiz documents the transformation in how medieval Castilians thought about property and family at a time when economic innovations and an emerging mercantile sensibility were eroding the traditional relation between the two. He also identifies changes in how Castilians conceived of and acted on salvation and in the ways they related to their local communities and an emerging nation-state. Ruiz interprets this reordering of mental and physical landscapes as part of what Le Goff has described as a transition "from heaven to earth," from spiritual and religious beliefs to the quasi-secular pursuits of merchants and scholars. Examining how specific groups of Castilians began to itemize the physical world, Ruiz sketches their new ideas about salvation, property, and themselves--and places this transformation within the broader history of cultural and social change in the West.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 581g
• ISBN-13: 9780691001210
• ISBN-10: 0691001219
• Artikelnr.: 21292200

Autorenporträt

Teofilo F. Ruiz

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments ix
INTRODUCTION
From Heaven to Earth 1
CHAPTER ONE
A Taste for the New: Commerce, Property, and Language 12
CHAPTER TWO
The Evidence of Wills 37
CHAPTER THREE
Property: Wills and the Law in Medieval Castile 54
CHAPTER FOUR
Itemizing the World: Boundaries, Consolidation of Property, and Rights of
Way 67
CHAPTER FIVE
Family and Property: Lineages and Primogeniture 87
CHAPTER SIX
Heavenly Concerns: Charity and Salvation 110
CHAPTER SEVEN
Toward a New Concept of Power: Unsacred Monarchy 133
Conclusion 151
Appendix 155
Notes 163
Bibliography 199
Index 215