Library Catalog
Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

From Heaven to Earth : The Reordering of Castilian Society, 1150-1350 / Teofilo F. Ruiz.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)Content type:
Media type:
Carrier type:
ISBN:
  • 9780691001210
  • 9781400880126
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306/.09463 23
LOC classification:
  • HN590.C36 R837 2004eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction. From Heaven to Earth -- 1. A Taste for the New: Commerce, Property, and Language -- 2. The Evidence of Wills -- 3. Property: Wills and the Law in Medieval Castile -- 4. Itemizing the World: Boundaries, Consolidation of Property, and Rights of Way -- 5. Family and Property: Lineages and Primogeniture -- 6. Heavenly Concerns: Charity and Salvation -- 7. Toward a New Concept of Power: Unsacred Monarchy -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781400880126

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction. From Heaven to Earth -- 1. A Taste for the New: Commerce, Property, and Language -- 2. The Evidence of Wills -- 3. Property: Wills and the Law in Medieval Castile -- 4. Itemizing the World: Boundaries, Consolidation of Property, and Rights of Way -- 5. Family and Property: Lineages and Primogeniture -- 6. Heavenly Concerns: Charity and Salvation -- 7. Toward a New Concept of Power: Unsacred Monarchy -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

restricted access online access with authorization star

http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec

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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021)