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While researching in the archival collections of the monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe (Cáceres) we had access to certain documents that aroused our suspicions concerning their authenticity. The objective of this work is to present the arguments that lead us to regard them as forgeries (historical falsehoods) and to delve into the reasons for this practice. The utilization of different sources of information provides us with a credible image of what happened and allows us to identify this activity as part of a programme to generate a historical memory of the sanctuary. This activity involved different subjects and, therefore, elaborated on different levels, each adapting to its historical context and evolving during the thirteenth and fourteenth century. One of the aspects considered is its connection with the legitimist propaganda of the Trastámara dynasty, one of whose objectives was to mitigate social tensions, for which they resorted to the pretence of presenting themselves as guardians of religious centres.

This work aims to determine the importance that the institution of the general bailiwick of the kingdom of Valencia exercised as supreme authority over Mudejars, for which an exhaustive examination of the Bailiwick archive of 1424 has been carried out. Archival research has been the key piece in the whole process, carried out through a systematic procedure that began with the reading of all the documents of the series in the archive, accompanied by their regesta, or summary, and transcription of the most significant ones, in order to describe and establish its authority through the analysis and interpretation of these sources. This approach has allowed us to implement a «document by document» analysis which allows us to determine the responsibilities and functions assigned to the general bailiwick based on the different actions it performed. Based on the information provided by the archive and with existing scholarship on the institution of the bailiwick and the life of the Mudejars in the fifteenth century, we propose a first look at the jurisdiction that the general bailiff possessed over the Mudejars who belonged to the royal crown.

The fifteenth century began in the midst of ecclesiastical turmoil caused by a gridlocked schism with no signs of progress and an increase in polarisation of the parties involved. Benedict XIII, pope of Avignon, saw how his authority progressively waned, and his loyalty to the Crown of Aragon became the most powerful asset to secure his own power. The close relationship the Aragonese monarchs established with the pontiff, became the perfect scenario for Orihuela to put an end to its lasting ecclesiastical conflict with the Diocese of Cartagena, however, the dire developments in Europe at the time would not make things easy.

This study analyzes the petitions of benefices in the Castilian Church presented to Clement VI (1342-1352) by non-Castilian cardinals and by officials of the pontifical Curia for their familiars, their servants and for themselves, as recorded in the unpublished documentation of the Registra Supplicationum in the Vatican Apostolic Archive. Fourteen cardinals –twelve French and two Italian– presented 88 requests for ecclesiastical benefices in Castile, while the officers and servants of the Curia –twelve French and Italian, and five Castilian– presented 26. This work shows that, in addition to the better-known prebend interventionism of the Castilian cardinals, several French cardinals (prominent among which is Guillaume de La Jugie) and Italian ones presented petitions requesting ecclesiastical benefices in the Kingdom of Castile for themselves and their familiars, among which were both Castilian and foreign clergymen belonging to its clientele network.

This paper analyzes the sale and consumption of olive oil, fruits, vegetables and wine in the city of Seville at the end of the Middle Ages. For this, fiscal indicators are used, such as the income from the alcabalas and other taxes that, such as the almojarifazgo, they affected to the sale of such food and raw materials. It is an indirect way to know the supply and demand of goods, but practically the only one possible for the pre-industrial period. With the amounts of the leases of the levies that fell on each product, tables and graphs have been prepared that allow evaluating the evolution of the local market, and relating its profitability with the increase in demand, due to population growth or disposable income, well as by the increase in crops and as a function of conjunctural factors, such as plague epidemics, wars, currency devaluations and other. In conclusion, in the period studied, there is a clear rise in the oil of olive sales tax, motivated by better management of its collection and with a greater production of soap in the city. While those of fruits and vegetables and that of wine attended more to the demographic expansion and the putting into exploitation of the lands of the peri-urban environment.

The latest studies on the wealth of cities go beyond the purely economic sphere and focus on understanding the distribution of inequality within the population and the historical evolution of the purchasing power of certain groups with the use of fiscal records. The purpose of this article is to analyse economic inequality among taxpayers of the city of Palma (known previously as ciutat de Mallorca) in the transition period between the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age (1446-1533) through the fiscal sources of the talla levy. As an introduction, we will first present a historical evolution of ciutat de Mallorca in the wake of the Early Modern Age, followed by the methodology we have used to identify the social distribution of wealth, and conclude with an interpretation of the economic results obtained.

This article is based on a case study which addresses the analysis of Castilian Judeoconversa women who acquired historical relevance due to their marriage to powerful individuals. Elvira González (d. 1463), wife of Diego Arias de Ávila, Castile’s chief treasurer, has been studied through three indicators which condition the evolution of her presence and social prestige: her social relationships, the space in which she developed them, and the funeral rites after her death. Archival documentation, her tomb epitaph and historical-literary texts reveal her process of assimilation to progressively higher social strata on the basis of different interests and perspectives: her own point of view, that of her family and those of third parties

This study aims to investigate the penetration of Genoese capital in the Murcian dye industry between 1380 and 1470. Specifically, we will examine the way in which Genoese capital uses its condition of monopoly importer of dyes to try to displace the local master dyers of the city management of dyes. The Italian merchants aimed to achieve a vertical integration of the dyeing process. From this stance, an intense dispute takes place with the Murcian masters, who have a remarkable capacity to resist this affront. The empirical analysis will lead us away from the assumptions of traditional Marxist historiography that establish a rigid separation between circulation and production. In contrast to this approach, we will make use of the novel contributions of Jairus Banaji, who emphasizes the development of productive functions by commercial capital.