No. 27 (2026): Palace Women and Female Court Servants. Female Personnel in the Late Medieval Hispanic Courts (1230–1520)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24197/s6j79d45

Published: 2026-07-01

PRESENTATION

• Palace Women and Female Court Servants. Female Personnel in the Late Medieval Hispanic Courts (1230–1520)

  Francisco de Paula Cañas Gálvez

  1-6

  • pdf (Spanish)

MONOGRAPHIC DOSSIER

• Nurturing the Royal Lineage amid Whispers and Intrigues: Castilian Nursemaids in the Late Middle Ages (13th-15th Centuries)

  Diana Pelaz Flores

  7-50

  • pdf (Spanish)

• The King of Castile’s “Cobijeras”: Service, Power Networks, and Courtly Projection in the Royal Chamber (ca. 1400–1465)

  Francisco de Paula Cañas Gálvez

  51-85

  • pdf (Spanish)

• Violante de Albión, Aragonese Camarera of Isabel of Castile. Chamber Management, Circulation of Goods, and Material Culture in an Itinerant Court (1499–1505)

  Luis Almenar Fernández

  87-117

  • pdf (Spanish)

• To Serve the Queen, To Serve the Lineage: Kinship Networks and Functions of the Ladies-in-waiting in Violant de Bar’s Household

  Lledó Ruiz Domingo

  119-162

  • pdf (Spanish)

• Female Presence in the Court of Queen Blanche of Navarre: Household Organisation, Courtly Service and Family Networks (1421-1451)

  Vera Cruz Miranda Menacho

  163-201

  • pdf (Spanish)

• Beatriz Gonçalves de Moura, Matriarch of the Coutinho Family and Lady-in-waiting to Philippa of Lancaster, Queen of Portugal (ca 1340-1418)

  Manuela Santos Silva

  203-234

  • pdf (Spanish)

• Female Curialities in the Wills of Mary, Wife of Manuel I of Portugal

  María Pilar Rabadé Obradó

  235-270

  • pdf (Spanish)

MISCELLANY

• To Serve both God and King: Bernat Guilhèm de Montpellier (b. 1202-1238) and James I of Aragon

  Martín Alvira Cabrer

  271-321

  • pdf (Spanish)

• Power Networks in the House of the Queen of Portugal (14th-15th Centuries)

  Isabel de Pina Baleiras

  323-376

  • pdf (Spanish)

• Jewish Converts Returned to Valladolid under the Pragmatic of November 1492

  Maria Isabel Daniel Pérez

  377-408

  • pdf (Spanish)

• A Portable Archive of Luso-Castilian Diplomacy in the Late Middle Ages

  Diogo Faria, Pedro Pinto

  409-442

  • pdf (Spanish)

• The Reflection of the Crown: The Town of Chantada de Asma (Lugo) and the Urban Policy of the Kings of León and Castile (11th-14th Centuries)

  Luis Manuel Ibáñez Beltrán

  443-478

  • pdf (Spanish)

• Forest Customs, Subsistence, and Need in the Municipal Ordinances of the Crown of Castile (15^th-16^th centuries)

  Corina Luchía

  479-511

  • pdf (Spanish)

• Local Ecclesiastical Centres under Female Ownership in León (10^th-12^th centuries)

  Alicia Martín Rodríguez, Iñaki Martín Viso

  513-549

  • pdf (Spanish)

• The International Circulation of Horses Fostered by the Portuguese Crown between the Late 15^th and Early 16^th Centuries

  Afonso Soares de Sousa

  551-590

  • pdf (Spanish)

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REVIEWS

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• ADOT LERGA, Álvaro, Philippe CHAREYRE, y Dénes HARAI (eds.). Princes, conseils et réformations à la Renaissance. Politique et religion (Europe-Amériques)

  Jaime Elipe

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• ALMENAR FERNÁNDEZ, Luis, Irene VELASCO MARTA, y Mario LAFUENTE GÓMEZ (coords.). Objetos cotidianos en la Corona de Aragón durante la Baja Edad Media

  Francesc Granell Sales

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• ÁLVAREZ BORGE, Ignacio. Guerra, nobleza, economía. Castilla, c. 1150-c. 1350

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• APARISI ROMERO, Frederic. De l’arada a la ploma. Les elits rurals del Paíx Valencià a l’edat Mitjana

  Daniel Piñol Alabart

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• BALOUP, Daniel. La Reconquista. Un proyecto político entre la cristiandad y el islam

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• BAUDUIN, Pierre. Historia de los vikingos. De las invasiones a la diáspora

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• CRUSELLES GÓMEZ, Enrique. Los destinos de las comunidades conversas en las sociedades tardomedievales

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• GRILLO, Paolo. Las puertas del mundo. Europa y la globalización medieval

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• JUSTO SÁNCHEZ, Daniel. El territorio de los castillos. Centros fortificados y articulación territorial en el noroeste de la meseta del Duero entre los siglos IX y XII

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• MARTÍN VISO, Iñaki. Las miradas y las prácticas. Perspectivas sobre los paisajes rurales del occidente medieval

  Margarita Fernández Mier

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• MARTÍNEZ GARCÍA, Pedro (coord.). El Sacro Imperio y los Reinos Ibéricos

  Giovanni Collamati

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• PAZ MORO, Agurtzane, Ernesto GARCÍA FERNÁNDEZ, Ana GALDÓS MONFORT, Ismael GARCÍA-GÓMEZ, Consuelo VILLACORTA MACHO, Emiliana RAMOS REMEDIOS, y José Ramón DÍAZ DE DURANA ORTIZ DE URBINA (coords.). «Libros de Cámara».

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  • pdf (Spanish)

• SABATE, Flocel (ed.). Managing Emotions in the Middle Ages.Defining and Perceiving Feelings in the Late Middle Ages. The Emotional Expression of Authority and Power in the Middle Ages

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  • pdf (Spanish)

• SAMSON, Vincent. Los berserkir. Los «guerreros-fiera» en la antigua Escandinavia

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• VILLANUEVA ZUBIZARRETA, Olatz, y Luis VASALLO TORRANZO (coords.). Los apartamientos de moros y las morerías en los reinos medievales ibéricos

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  • pdf (Spanish)

DOCTORAL THESIS

• GONZÁLEZ GOMIS, José Benjamín. Tempus in Templum. Contextos aurales en los espacios sagrados cristianos de la Hispania altomedieval (527-1080). Una plasmación perceptiva

  José Benjamín González Gomis

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  • pdf (Spanish)

• GONZÁLEZ MARTÍN, Rodrigo. Élites locales y procesos políticos en el medio rural vallisoletano entre el franquismo y la democracia (1948-1983)

  Rodrigo González Martín

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  • pdf (Spanish)