Active faulting in the central Betic Cordillera (Spain): Palaeoseismological constraint of the surface-rupturing history of the Baza Fault (Central Betic Cordillera, Iberian Peninsula)

At the height of its development and up to the eighteenth century, the Spanish classical theatre significantly contributed to the formation of the modern European theatre. Theatre texts and theatrical companies were in fact circulating outside the Iberian peninsula and the Spanish experience of theatre triggered literary debates and reflections that played a central role to the cultural history of Europe, from Neoclassicism to the beginnings of Romanticism. It is a complex phenomenon crossing linguistically and culturally diversified territories, and which therefore needs an inter- and multidisciplinary approach. We tried to respond to this need by involving scholars and researchers in the fields of Hispanic, French, Italian, history of entertainment and musicology for the drafting of this volume.

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Reconstructing the sedimentary history of Lezetxiki II cave (Basque Country, northern Iberian Peninsula) using micromorphological analysis

Sedimentary Geology ◽

10.1016/j.sedgeo.2018.05.006 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 372 ◽

pp. 96-111 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Martin Arriolabengoa ◽

Eneko Iriarte ◽

Arantza Aranburu ◽

Iñaki Yusta ◽

Lee J. Arnold ◽

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Keyword(s):

Iberian Peninsula ◽

Basque Country ◽

Northern Iberian Peninsula ◽

History Of ◽

Micromorphological Analysis

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Segregation or Choice?

The Chosen Few ◽

10.23943/princeton/9780691144870.003.0009 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Maristella Botticini ◽

Zvi Eckstein

Keyword(s):

Economic Theory ◽

Iberian Peninsula ◽

Middle Ages ◽

Western Europe ◽

Alternative Explanation ◽

Historical Information ◽

Medieval Europe ◽

History Of ◽

Salient Features ◽

The Middle Ages

This chapter assesses the argument that both their exclusion from craft and merchant guilds and usury bans on Christians segregated European Jews into moneylending during the Middle Ages. Already during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, moneylending was the occupation par excellence of the Jews in England, France, and Germany and one of the main professions of the Jews in the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, and other locations in western Europe. Based on the historical information and the economic theory presented in earlier chapters, the chapter advances an alternative explanation that is consistent with the salient features that mark the history of the Jews: the Jews in medieval Europe voluntarily entered and later specialized in moneylending because they had the key assets for being successful players in credit markets—capital, networking, literacy and numeracy, and contract-enforcement institutions.

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The Military Orders and the Spanish Reconquest in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries

Traditio ◽

10.1017/s0362152900003925 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 40 ◽

pp. 197-234 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

A. J. Forey

Keyword(s):

Iberian Peninsula ◽

Medieval Period ◽

Direct Information ◽

Military Orders ◽

History Of ◽

The Military

In recent years renewed interest has been shown in the history of the military orders in the Iberian peninsula, and a considerable number of studies have been published both in Spain and elsewhere. Yet most of the works that are concerned with the medieval period treat of a single order, and little attempt has been made to provide general surveys. Obviously much detailed research still needs to be undertaken before definitive conclusions can be formulated, and the nature of the evidence makes the discussion of some topics more difficult than that of others. The surviving sources supply more direct information about rights and privileges than about the orders' role in the struggle against Islam. But, as the function of the military orders was to fight against the infidel, their contribution to the reconquista is a subject that merits investigation, despite the limitations of the evidence.

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New perspectives on the evolution of the genus Typhlatya (Crustacea, Decapoda): first record of a cavernicolous atyid in the Iberian Peninsula, Typhlatya miravetensis n. sp.

Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde ◽

10.1163/26660644-06502002 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 65 (2) ◽

pp. 79-99

Author(s):

Sebastián Sanz ◽

Dirk Platvoet

Keyword(s):

Iberian Peninsula ◽

First Record ◽

Evolutionary Development ◽

The Family ◽

The World ◽

The Status ◽

History Of ◽

World Distribution ◽

A New Species

On several occasions, shrimps belonging to a new species of the genus Typhlatya were collected in a cave in the province of Castellón, Spain. This is the first record of the genus in the Iberian Peninsula. The species is described and the validity, distribution, and zoogeography of the genus, as well as the status of the genus Spelaeocaris, are discussed. Former models for the evolution of the genus Typhlatya and its genus group are reviewed, as well as the system of inner classification of the Atyidae and its biogeographical meaning. For the age and evolution of the genus we developed a new model based on vicariance principles that involves further evolution of each species after the disruption of the ancestral range. This allows new estimations for the age of the genus. Accordingly, we suppose that other proposals, such as recent dispersal through the sea, should be disregarded for this genus. The evolutionary development of this species is discussed in the context of the geological history of the area and the world distribution of the genus, the genus group, and the family.

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On the Meaning of the Term ‘Liber Commicus’

Traditio ◽

10.1017/s0362152900009685 ◽

1983 ◽

Vol 39 ◽

pp. 439-443

Author(s):

Spurgeon Baldwin

Keyword(s):

Iberian Peninsula ◽

Old Testament ◽

Medieval Church ◽

History Of

The somewhat striking title of Liber Commicus was the usual designation in the Mozarabic Church for the liturgical book known elsewhere in western Christendom as the lectionarium, that is, the collection of passages from the Old Testament, Epistles, and Gospels specified for reading during the Mass throughout the ecclesiastical year. This book, so important for the history of the medieval Church in the Iberian peninsula, and cited in a great many documents, has survived in two complete manuscripts from the 11th century, two significant fragments from the 9th and the 11th centuries, and several smaller fragments. First made available by Morin in 1893, the work has most recently been edited by Pérez de Urbel and González y Ruiz-Zorilla. (Their spelling commicus is related to certain arguments relative to the term's origin; this form of the word will be used in this study up to the point at which I wish to argue otherwise.)

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History of the Portuguese Lexicon

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics ◽

10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.463 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Bernhard Pöll

Keyword(s):

Iberian Peninsula ◽

Middle Ages ◽

Language Contact ◽

Western World ◽

Romance Language ◽

European Languages ◽

Colonial Expansion ◽

Lower Extent ◽

History Of ◽

Basic Vocabulary

The basic vocabulary of Portuguese—the second largest Romance language in terms of speakers (about 210 million as of 2017)—comes from (vulgar) Latin, which itself incorporated a certain amount of so-called substratum and superstratum words. Whereas the former were adopted in a situation of language contact between Latin and the languages of the conquered peoples inhabiting the Iberian Peninsula, the latter are Germanic loans brought mainly by the Visigoths. From 711 onward, until the end of the Middle Ages, Arabic played a major role in the Peninsula, contributing about 1,000 words that are common in Modern Portuguese. (Classical) Latin and Greek were other sources for lexical enrichment especially in the 15th and 16th centuries as well as in the 18th and 19th centuries. Contact with other European languages—Romance and Germanic (especially English, and to a lower extent German)—led to borrowings in several thematic fields reflecting the economic, cultural, and scientific radiance that emanated from the respective language communities. In the course of colonial expansion, Portuguese came into contact with several African, Asian, and Amerindian languages from which it borrowed words for concepts and realia unknown to the Western world.

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The genomic history of the Iberian Peninsula over the past 8000 years

Science ◽

10.1126/science.aav4040 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 363 (6432) ◽

pp. 1230-1234 ◽

Cited By ~ 84

Author(s):

Iñigo Olalde ◽

Swapan Mallick ◽

Nick Patterson ◽

Nadin Rohland ◽

Vanessa Villalba-Mouco ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Iberian Peninsula ◽

Iron Age ◽

North Africa ◽

Eastern Mediterranean ◽

Hunter Gatherers ◽

Y Chromosomes ◽

Genome Wide ◽

Genome Wide Data ◽

History Of ◽

Genetic Substructure

We assembled genome-wide data from 271 ancient Iberians, of whom 176 are from the largely unsampled period after 2000 BCE, thereby providing a high-resolution time transect of the Iberian Peninsula. We document high genetic substructure between northwestern and southeastern hunter-gatherers before the spread of farming. We reveal sporadic contacts between Iberia and North Africa by ~2500 BCE and, by ~2000 BCE, the replacement of 40% of Iberia’s ancestry and nearly 100% of its Y-chromosomes by people with Steppe ancestry. We show that, in the Iron Age, Steppe ancestry had spread not only into Indo-European–speaking regions but also into non-Indo-European–speaking ones, and we reveal that present-day Basques are best described as a typical Iron Age population without the admixture events that later affected the rest of Iberia. Additionally, we document how, beginning at least in the Roman period, the ancestry of the peninsula was transformed by gene flow from North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean.

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