Mobility in the Medieval Occitan-Catalan Area

This volume gathers 18 studies aimed at exploring and deepening an aspect of mobility in the Middle Ages that remains somewhat nebulous: the relationships between the geographical and physical routes traced and traveled by people and animals, and the paths traversed—whether materially or immaterially—by texts, books, artistic works, musical compositions, and literary, cultural, political, and artistic trends.
To this end, the contributors have focused their research on a specific area considered particularly active, emblematic, and rich in exchanges: the Occitano-Catalan region. This region constitutes the core of the volume, serving as a point of departure, arrival, or dissemination for the phenomena and topics examined. Throughout the volume, the issues related to these particular aspects of mobility in the Occitano-Catalan region during the Middle Ages are approached in an interdisciplinary manner, thanks to the collaboration of specialists from various fields. Specifically, the subjects of the contributions fall within several disciplines, including history, literature, philology, musicology, social history, and art history.

Introduction

Poetic and Musical Itineraries: Patrons, Troubadours and Minstrels
1. Miriam Cabré (Universitat de Girona) - De cort en cort anar: la mobilitat dels trobadors
2. Federico Guariglia - «Ni de Folcueis ni de Guion»: appunti sulla circolazione dell’epica romanza in area occitano-catalana
3. Ivan Vera Martínez (Universitat de Girona) - Urgell i Cabrera als regnes de Castella i Lleó: els inicis d’una tradició familiar de mecenatge poètic
4. Maria Incoronata Colantuono (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) - Itineraris de la lírica religiosa a la Baixa Edat Mitjana des dels monestirs catalans a la cort d’Alfons X
5. Carles Vela Aulesa (Universitat de Barcelona) - El paper dels enllaços matrimonials en la difusió d’estils musicals: els casos d’Elionor de Sicília, reina d’Aragó, i Constança d’Aragó, reina de Sicília
6. Simone Sari (Universitat de Barcelona) - Status Quaestionis sui musicisti non cristiani e sui loro strumenti alla corte catalano-aragonese nei secoli XIII-XV

The Circulation of Cultural Models: Artworks, Texts and Documents
7. Silvia Marcheselli (Sorbonne Université) - Pisa-Catalogna : il caso di Santa Eulalia tra devozione e arte
8. Giovanni Strinna (Università degli Studi di Sassari) - Dai Paesi Catalani alla Sardegna, le gloses a Sant Antoni de Viana
9. Sara Moure López (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela) - La biblia «que nos dio el rey don Loys de Francia»: el viaje de un manuscrito regio parisino a la corte del rey Sabio
10. Albert Tomàs Monsó (Université de Lille) - «Yo més atén als curiosos estudiants»: el comentari de Thomas Waleys a La ciutat de Déu a la Corona d’Aragó
11. Andrea Lai (Università degli studi di Sassari)- Vescovi catalani e percorsi di libri tra i secoli XIV e XV
12. Daniel Piñol-Alabart (Universitat de Barcelona) - Les notaries medievals, espais d’escriptura i de pràctica jurídica: la circulació de formularis notarials a Catalunya

Maps, Travellers and Conveyance
13. Cristina Dusio (Università degli Studi di Salerno) - Itinerari testuali nel medioevo mediterraneo. La tradizione delle scritture di viaggio e dell’immaginario figurativo nell’orizzonte occitano-catalano
14. Montserrat Piera (Temple University) - The King and the Mapmaker: Illustrating Mediterranean Geopolitics in the Catalan Atlas (c.1375)
15. Xavier Renedo (Universitat de Girona) - Pilgrim Philosophers and Merchants, Irrigation Canals and Trade Routes: The Importance of Travel in the Works of Francesc Eiximenis
16. Glòria Ribugent (University of Leeds) - Les mules com a mitjà de transport segons el Tractat de les mules de Manuel Díez
17. Pedro Martínez (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos) - «Bibimus et comedimus more cathelanorum». La Corona de Aragón en los relatos de viaje alemanes de la Baja Edad Media
18. Paulo Catarino Lopes (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) - O Itinerarium de William de Rubruck como paradigma da circulação e transmissão cultural entre Ocidente e Oriente em meados do século XIII