Jacob MOMPÓ NAVARRO

Original title: Aproximació a la transmissió textual del Chronicon pontificum et imperatorum, de Martí de Troppau, en l’anònim Crònica universal de 1427

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Keywords: Chronicles, Historiography, Textual Transmission, Universal History.

The Chronicon Pontificum et Imperatorum by Martí de Troppau is, along with the Història Escolàstica by Pere Comestor and the Speculum historiale by Vicenç de Beauvais, one of the main sources used by the compiler of the Crònica universal de 1427. The Chronicon will be referred to three different times by the author himself and will thus give rise to three different families in the textual transmission of Martí de Troppau's work, which L. Weiland identifies with letters A, B and C. In this work we provide some evidence that allows us to assume that the version of the Chronicon from which the author of the Crònica de 1427 compiled came, ultimately, from a thirteenth-century manuscript that depended on the A family, but with enough particularity to start a new subfamily, the A*.

Myrna HERZOG

Published in Music in Middle Ages and Early Modernity

Keywords: 17th century, 18th century, Bonnet, Bourdelot, France, Gôuts Réunis, Historiography, History of Music.

This is an historiographical examination of the first History of Music published in France in 1715, written during a long span of time by three different authors. Histoire de la Musique et de ses effets depuis son origine jusqu’a present portrays the ideological war taking place in France in the late 17th and early 18th-century between defenders of the French and the Italian styles and proposes an union of the two – what would be later called Les Goûts Réunis (the united tastes) – as an esthetic solution to the conflict.

Roberto GONZÁLEZ RAMOS

Original title: The Hispano-Islamisms of Juan Guas. The fabrication of a Historiographical Stereotype

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Keywords: Historiographical nationalism, Historiography, Islamic influence, Juan Guas, Late Gothic Architecture.

Formalist currents tinged with nationalism in twentieth century historiography developed the idea of Toledo’s late Gothic architecture being imbued with elements and features from Hispano-Islamic architecture, especially in the case of one of its leading lights, the architect Juan Guas. This gave rise to descriptions of a specific, hispanicized style, which had modified its essentially Northern European characteristics. This essay analyses the gradual construction of the aforementioned historiographical viewpoint, its champions, and their arguments and methodological approach. The process can then be reconstructed, with a view to revisiting it and critically analysing underlying assumptions.

Philippe JOSERAND

Published in Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Peninsula Cultural History

Keywords: France, Historiography, Memory, Myth, Templar Order, XIIth-XXIth Centuries.

A comprehensive scholarly study of the Templars in France has not been published yet. Yet their order, from the outset, was closely linked to the French present space: most brethren were born there, and the langue d’oïl rapidly stood as the official tongue of the institution. For two centuries, the Templars used the Capetian kingdom as the main operations base to act in the Latin East and to sustain their singular vocation merging prayer and warfare into the same religious move. After the trial which opened in 1307 on King Philip the Fair’s initiative, the Templar order, although suppressed, did not entirely disappear from the French landscape: some buildings remained and, even more, a myth took shape, from which an historiography gradually emerged. This scientific movement strengthened from the end of the twentieth century and it now allows to shed new light on the French Templar presence, and to question the generally accepted ideas in order to better understand a medieval reality, which is still fascinating, but often strangely evoked.