Rethinking Violence in Valencia and Catalonia - Fourteenth to Seventeenth Century

This work analyzes interpersonal violence in 14th-17th century Valencia and Catalonia using a qualitative, microhistorical approach. It explores revenge, warfare's impact on Muslim communities, banditry, piracy, mercenary activities, witch trials, and suppression of non-normative behaviors, highlighting violence's role and socio-economic dynamics.

This book provides multifaceted analyses of everyday interpersonal violence in the Kingdom of Valencia and Catalonia between the 14th and 17th centuries. Employing qualitative and microhistorical approaches, its contributors weave a narrative tapestry where revenge among religious minorities, the impact of war on Muslim rural communities, and the phenomenon of banditry intertwine to reveal the social and cultural complexity of the era. Furthermore, its chapters explore piracy and mercenary activities, uncovering how these practices influenced social and economic dynamics.



Their contributors also delve into the trials against witches and the repression of heretical deviations or non-normative behaviors, offering a critical view on how these events were framed within the struggle for power and social control. The cumulative work of the authors not only sheds light on dark and forgotten aspects of history, but also prompts reflections on the nature of viol ence and its role in the construction of collective identities. With meticulous research and an interdisciplinary focus, this book is essential for understanding the history of violence in the Iberian Peninsula and its transcendence on contemporary society.

Inhaltsverzeichnis:

Alejandro Llinares Planells / Guillermo López Juan: Rethinking Violence at the Margins: Valencia and Catalonia (14th to 17th Centuries) -Guillermo López Juan:Three Religious Communities, One Culture of Honour: Muslims, Jews, Christians, and the Vengeance in Late Medieval Iberia (Valencia, 15th Century) -Pablo Sanahuja Ferrer: The Root of Hate: The Reaction of Valencian Muslim Aljamas to the War of the Two Peters (1356- 1369) - Miquel Faus Faus: The Case of Pere Comte, a Valencian Soldier Missing in Action After the Battle of Aljubarrota (1385) - Javier Fajardo Paños: 'Scarrinxo, Corsair and Enemy of our Nation': Pirates on the Shores of the Crown of Aragon Through the Case of a Genoese Pirate in the Fifteenth Century -Francesc Granell Sales: Beholding Violence in the Centenar de la Ploma Altarpiece of St George - Jacob Mompó: Confession under Torture. The Practice of Inquisitorial Torment in the Territories of the Crown of Aragon - Vicent Josep Escartí: The Eventful Life and C ruel Death of the Moorish Sodomite Gregori Xeus - Agustí Alcoberro: Witch Hunts and the 'Little Ice Age' in Catalonia: The Crime of Triggering Natural Disasters and Its Repression (1614- 1629) -Àngel Casals: Don Guillem de Josa: The Tragic Adventure of a Gentleman Bandit in the Lands of the Crown of Aragon (1548- 1568) - Víctor Jurado : Violence and Loyalty in Modern Times: The Case of the Catalan Nobility in the Sixteenth Century - Alejandro Llinares Planells: Bandits, Factions, and Nobles: Different Sides of the Same Coin in Seventeenth- Century Valencian Banditry.