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Indigenous Conquistadors – Status, Rights, and Remuneration

Julia Bühner, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main Abstract: The late medieval conquest of the Canary Islands can be understood as an encounter of normative conceptions. Whereas the indigenous conquistadors, their status, rights and especially their remuneration, equaled that of their French, Castilian or Portuguese counterparts, their different conceptions of property and the transfer of property rights sparked … Indigenous Conquistadors – Status, Rights, and Remuneration weiterlesen

Intercultural Processes of Interaction and their Participants in the Western Mediterranean: Norman Sicily (1061–1194) and the Kingdom of València (1238–1276) in Comparison

Eric Böhme, Konstanz Abstract: Im Rahmen des hier vorgestellten Habilitationsprojektes werden in zwei miteinander zu vergleichenden Fallstudien zu Sizilien und zur Iberischen Levante jeweils Phasen bedeutender Umbrüche in den Blick genommen, die durch den Herrschaftswechsel von islamischer zu christlicher Oberherrschaft konstituiert wurden. Die neuen Herrschaftsstrukturen konnten nur über permanente Kommunikations-, Interaktions- und Aushandlungsprozesse etabliert und stabilisiert … Intercultural Processes of Interaction and their Participants in the Western Mediterranean: Norman Sicily (1061–1194) and the Kingdom of València (1238–1276) in Comparison weiterlesen

Zwischen zwei Welten – Eleonore von Portugal

Viktor Gottesmann, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Abstract: My study, conducted as “Wissenschaftliche Arbeit” at the University of Heidelberg and supervised by Prof. Nikolas Jaspert, introduces a new perspective on Eleonor of Portugal, wife of Emperor Frederick III.: the aim is not only to investigate her reginal agency as an empress in general, but also to underline the … Zwischen zwei Welten – Eleonore von Portugal weiterlesen