Jaume Aurell
Biographic Data
| ID | 336859 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jaume Aurell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jaume |
| FAMILY NAME | Aurell |
| SIGNATURE | AURELL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Navarra |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1683-0100 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 42 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Conversación con Peter Burke en Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Historians' Autobiographies as Historiographical Inquiry
What Is a Classic in History?
What is a classic in historical writing? How do we explain the continued interest in certain historical texts, even when their accounts and interpretations of particular periods have been displaced or revised by newer generations of historians? How do these texts help to maintain the historiographical canon? Jaume Aurell's innovative study ranges from the heroic writings of ancient Greek historians such as Herodotus to the twentieth century micro…
The origins of the university
In this article I intend to make an inquiry into the essential values of the university in its medieval origins and to compare them with the present situation of the institution, and the main challenges it faces today. In the first part of the article, I examine the core values of the university in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries (‘Origins’). In a second section, I describe the main structural and governance features of universities in the M…
Significante y Significado de Europa en la Edad Media
Este artículo se propone analizar el proceso de construcción del significante “Europa” y de su correlativo significado (concepto, idea), que genera una idea e identidad de Europa a lo largo de la Edad Media, desde la caída del Imperio Romano al Renacimiento. Se rastrean los modos de mencionar a “Europa” según las fuentes narrativas y especulativas del período. La primera parte del ensayo (“Fusión”) examina las improntas de la idea de Europa surgi…
Matthias M. Tischler, Carlemany a Europa. Història i memoria
La Chronica universalis du théologien et chroniqueur anglais Raoul le Noir, composée à la fin du xiie siècle, incorpore un étonnant récit de la conquête islamique du royaume wisigothique de Tolède au début du viiie siècle. Le passage, constituant une digression à l’expédition d’Espagne de Charlemagne en 778, s’inspire de thèmes considérés jusqu’ici comme exclusifs à la dialectique de perte et de récupération de l’Espagne propre à la tradition his…
Matthias M. Tischler, Carlemany a Europa. Història i memoria
Il s’agit d’un ouvrage important sur une période difficile de l’histoire médiévale : celle de Charlemagne et de son empreinte sur l’Europe. En s’appuyant sur une analyse rigoureuse et systématique de la documentation, l’auteur aborde différentes questions relatives à l’époque carolingienne.Le livre est divisé en trois parties : l’Antiquité tardive, l’empreinte de la mémoire de Charlemagne et la transculturalité. La première partie (« La culture d…
Charisma in the Middle Ages
Charisma-a special gift from God that enables some believers to perform prodigious feats such as prophecy, preaching, pardon, and miracles, for the good of the community-was originally conceptualized by St
A Canon Manifesto
Canonicity might seem to be the opposite of creativity. Yet, cultures and communities, hence any political realm, depends on strategies of simplification and fixation. Canons do have the role of creating habits and “normality” through which individuals feel to belong to a same world. That counts explicitly in the academic world where researchers, precisely in order to operate inventively, canot but rely on conventions and canonicity
They Are the Treasure of the Commonwealth
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, it has been a truism that the emergence of Protestantism was the main cause of the development of capitalism. However, a careful analysis of primary sources, especially in Latin countries, shows a quite different reality. Three centuries before the emergence of Protestantism, the Franciscans generated a discourse that made it possible to begin to legitimize the commercial practices that would later en…
The canon in history
From the 1970s onwards, postmodern, postcolonial and feminist criticism has reactivated the disapproval of the canon. Its academic and pedagogical usefulness remains challenged by historians who have generally been skeptical of its critical worth, its role as an instrument of hierarchization and standard of quality. Both the justification for the existence of the canon in history – which affects its content and function – and the criteria for the…
Introduction
This collective volume is devoted to the various manifestations of liturgy in the Middle Ages, based on a great variety and wealth of primary sources
What is a Classic in History
What is the classic in history? What is a classic in historical writing? Very few historians and critics have addressed these questions, and when they have done so, it has been only in a cursory manner. These are queries that require some explanation regarding historical texts because of their peculiar ambivalence between science and art, content and form, sources and imagination, scientific and narrative language. Based on some examples of the W…
Medieval Self-Coronations
Clio’s Laws. On History and Language, written by Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo
Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo, Clio’s Laws. On History and Language, translated by Mary Ellen Fieweger (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2019), ISBN: 978-1-4773-1926-0, 260pp.Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo is a prolific author, well known among English and Spanish-speaking readers. He specialises in history and Latin American popular literature, especially Mexican. He has practised a wide variety of genres, from poetry and literature to the properly histori…
Practicing theory and theorizing practice
History offers the chance to act as an author and actor at the same time. It works as a great stage on which the theatre of the world plays out. The historian has the privilege of being apart from and a part of history. The historian thus functions as both author and actor, and the historical operation should always combine theory and practice. Theoretical reflection allows us to delve into the reality of historical authorship, connecting us to t…
Wonder
Marnie Hughes-Warrington's book, History as Wonder: Beginning with Historiography, invites readers to reconsider the power of wonder as a critical concept whose theoretical implications go far beyond its evident ability to inspire historical research. Wonder is supposedly a neutral weapon for historians, one that is limited to promoting incessant curiosity about the past. Attempting to move from a poetic and aesthetic vision of wonder to a consid…
History and Autobiography
Experimentation and theorising on forms of life writing from the field of history has grown substantially in recent decades, as historians understand how autobiographical narrative may contribute to understanding both the past and our processes of accessing it. The introduction to this special issue on ‘History and Autobiography’ outlines some theoretical debates emerging from the intersection of history with different forms of self-representatio…
Clio's Lives
Reviewed by: Clio's Lives: Biographies and Autobiographies of Historians ed. by Doug Munro and John G. Reid Jaume Aurell (bio) Clio's Lives: Biographies and Autobiographies of Historians Doug Munro and John G. Reid, editors Australian National UP, 2017, 214 pages. ISBN 978-1760461430, $50. All critics dedicated to the analysis of autobiographies and biographies of historians have experienced, in one way or another, the extraordinary vitality of t…
Rethinking Historical Genres in the Twenty-First Century
Adventures of a Postmodern Historian
Robert A. Rosenstone is an unclassifiable historian who has moved through various historical genres. The subjects and figures he has analysed have always been found at the margins of the areas priv
Rethinking History’s essential tension
This article proposes a story of Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice since its founding in 1997. It analyses the journal’s contributions to historical theory and practice in the past, examines the situation in the present and projects some challenges for the future. It focuses on the idea that the original ambitious project proposed by the founding editors has led the journal to engage with an essential tension between traditio…
La liturgia en la Edad Media
Historiadores "románticos" e historiadores "científicos" en la historiografía catalana contemporánea
Uno de los debates clásicos de la historiografía catalana del siglo XX ha sido la división que formuló Jaume Vicens Vives, en los años treinta, entre "historiadores románticos" e "historiadores científicos". En el debate que se originó a raíz de la formulación de esta dicotomía, intervinieron historiadores como Ferran Soldevila, Antoni Rovira i Virgili, Ramon d'Abadal o el mismo Vicens Vives. En los artículos periodísticos cruzados por esos histo…
Writing Beyond Time
When we think in terms of the durability of historical texts, some works instantly come to mind: Herodotus's, Thucydides's, and Polybius's war narratives, Plutarch's comparative biographies, Eusebius's ecclesiastical history, Augustine's City of God, Jean Froissart's chronicles, Francesco Guicciardini's history of Florence, Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Jules Michelet's History of France, Leopold von Ranke's History of the…
Rethinking historical genres in the twenty-first century
In the context of the freedoms inspired by postmodernism and enabled by the development of innovative textual and graphic platforms, new theories of history view genres as flexible living forms that inspire more creative and experimental representations of the past. Creative historical writing is thus challenging conventional genre categorization. New ways of articulating history compete with the traditional model of historical prose. Indeed, the…
History and Autobiography
Experimentation and theorising on forms of life writing from the field of history has grown substantially in recent decades, as historians understand how autobiographical narrative may contribute to understanding both the past and our processes of accessing it. The introduction to this special issue on ‘History and Autobiography’ outlines some theoretical debates emerging from the intersection of history with different forms of self-representatio…
Autobiography as unconventional history
The experience of historians as autobiographers has led them to reconsider the nature of historical knowledge and the function of the historian as an intermediary between the past and present. In the new theoretical context of the social sciences and historiography, we can take this proposal further and consider autobiography as a valid form of history—or, at least, as ‘unconventional history’, understood as negotiations with history that transce…
La liturgia en la Edad Media
Merchants' attitudes to work in the Barcelona of the later Middle Ages
The debate concerning the attitude to work of medieval and renaissance merchants has been one of the most intense in twentieth-century historiography. Arising from the publication of the classic works of the sociologist Max Weber, the debate entered the field of historiography proper after the appearance of articles by Werner Sombart and Henri Pirenne. In the 1950s and 1960s, the works of Yves Renouard and Armando Sapori centred discussion on the…
Introduction
This collective volume is devoted to the various manifestations of liturgy in the Middle Ages, based on a great variety and wealth of primary sources
Making History by Contextualizing Oneself
This essay argues that, in their reflection of theoretical positions, autobiographies by historians may become valid historical writings (that is, both true narratives and legitimate historical interpretations) and, as a consequence and simultaneously, privileged sources for historiographical inquiry and evidence of its evolution. At the beginning of the twentyfirst century, following the model established by Carolyn Steedman, historians such as …
Tendencias recientes del medievalismo español
Este artículo tiene como objetivo analizar las tendencias recientes de los estudios medievales en España durante las dos últimas décadas. El criterio cronológico se centra exclusivamente en la década de los noventa y los años transcurridos desde el cambio de siglo (1990-2008). En la parte introductoria se recogen los principales jalones de la evolución del medievalismo español durante el siglo XX, detallando especialmente la herencia de los años …
Els mercaders catalans i la cultura de l’Edat Mitjana al Renaixement
L'étude des marchands du Moyen-Age a souvent souffert des déformations dues à l'image qu'on leur attribuait d'agents économiques pré-capitalistes dont le comportement était inspiré par des valeurs culturelles bourgeoises. En se basant sur une définition plus rigoureuse de ce groupe social, cet article prend comme exemple la Barcelone médiévale et tente de développer une hypothèse concernant l'évolution des marchands à travers la crise de la fin d…
El procés de sedentarització dels mercaders barcelonins al segle XV. La delegació de la feina comercial i els perills de la navegació
La forte personnalité des marchands de Barcelone a la fin du Moyen Age se doit, en grande partie, à la cohesion du groupe socio-professionnel. L'analyse du concept qu'eux même avaient de leur propre travail, peut nous aider à mieux comprendre l'identité de ce groupe social, ainsi que son rôle au sein de la société de Barcelone vers la fin du Moyen Age. En s'appuyant sur les actes notariaux, à la mani ère de sources culturelles, notre article vise…
Iconografia a les llars mercantils del segle XV. Mentalitat, estètica i religiositat dels mercaders a Barcelona
Ven le XV siècle, les commerçants furent réunis à Barcelone en tant que fort group social et èconomic. Nous analysons ic¡ une série de documents (principalment les testataments et les écrits matrirnoniaux) dans lesquels nous pouvons vérifier la présence de certains travaux d'art médiéval. Dans ces oeuvres nous trouvons une spéciale iconographie religiieuse qui reflète la mentalité particulière et la sensibilité aesthetiqueexprimées par le remarqu…
La formación del imaginario histórico del nacionalismo catalán, de la Renaixença al Noucentisme (1830-1930)
El nacionalismo catalán de los siglos XIX y XX basa su eficacia, desde el punto de vista cultural, en una paradójica apuesta simultánea por el recurso a la tradición y por la aspiración a la modernidad. En este contexto, la historiografía se presenta como uno de los instrumentos más eficaces de nacionalización cultural. Partiendo de estas dos premisas, el artículo profundiza en las diferentes fases de la formación del nacionalismo catalán, desde …
Merchants' attitudes to work in the Barcelona of the later Middle Ages
The debate concerning the attitude to work of medieval and renaissance merchants has been one of the most intense in twentieth-century historiography. Arising from the publication of the classic works of the sociologist Max Weber, the debate entered the field of historiography proper after the appearance of articles by Werner Sombart and Henri Pirenne. In the 1950s and 1960s, the works of Yves Renouard and Armando Sapori centred discussion on the…
Autobiography as unconventional history
The experience of historians as autobiographers has led them to reconsider the nature of historical knowledge and the function of the historian as an intermediary between the past and present. In the new theoretical context of the social sciences and historiography, we can take this proposal further and consider autobiography as a valid form of history—or, at least, as ‘unconventional history’, understood as negotiations with history that transce…
La chronique de Jacques l er , une fiction autobiographique. Auteur, auctorialité et autorité au Moyen Âge
La chronique de Jacques Ier d’Aragon, connue d’après la tradition manuscrite comme le Llibre dels fets , est élaborée pendant la seconde moitié du XIII e siècle à la cour aragonaise. Il s’agit d’un récit à la première personne et en langue catalane, que signe le roi lui-même. Jacques Ier relate ainsi par le menu, à l’aide d’un langage narratif fortement dramatisé, ses propres gestes et ceux de ses chevaliers dans leur lutte contre les musulmans. …
Performative academic careers
This article studies Gabrielle Spiegel and Natalie Z. Davis' autobiographical essays to understand the specific function of academic life-writing in defining, developing and contextualizing not only an area of specialization but also the process of writing about history. These ‘informative’ narratives become ‘performative’ and influence historiographical discourse, since they do not only describe lives but also examine the mechanisms for understa…
Los lenguajes de la historia
El artículo describe los diversos modos de narrar que han utilizado los historiadores, a lo largo de la historia, para presentar sus textos. Desde la antigüedad clásica al siglo XIX, el estilo hegemónico utilizado por los historiadores fue el narrativo-descriptivo, lo que asimiló sus relatos a la literatura. A partir del historicismo y el positivismo decimonónico, los historiadores utilizaron un lenguaje científico- analítico, importado de las ci…
Michael A. Ryan. A Kingdom of Stargazers
Michael A. Ryan's book analyzes the interest in, and practice of, astrology among three kings of the late medieval Crown of Aragon, and its relationship with questions of authority and political power. Based on extensive research in Catalan archives, and a renewed reading of late medieval European prophetic and divinatory texts, this book blends cultural history and history of science to provide an original and convincing portrait of the relation…
The Self-Coronation of Peter the Ceremonious (1336)
Everything was ready for the solemn rite of the anointing and crowning of Peter IV of Aragon (1336–87). The ceremony was set for 14 April 1336 in Zaragoza's San Salvador Cathedral. The celebrant was to be the archbishop of Zaragoza, Pedro López de Luna y Ximénez de Urrea (1318–45), to whom the honor fell as metropolitan of the kingdom's capital. However, that spring morning there was a heated discussion in the vestry shortly before the start of p…
Textos autobiográficos como fontes historiográficas
Universidade de Navarra, Navarra, Espanha
Theoretical Perspectives on Historians’ Autobiographies
E. H. Carr wrote, "study the historian before you begin to study the facts." This book approaches the life, work, ideas, debates, and the context of key 20th- and 21st-century historians through an analysis of their life writing projects viewed as historiographical sources. Merging literary studies on autobiography with theories of history, it provides a systematic and detailed analysis of the autobiographies of the most outstanding historians, f…
Studies in Medievalism XXIV
Rethinking historical genres in the twenty-first century
In the context of the freedoms inspired by postmodernism and enabled by the development of innovative textual and graphic platforms, new theories of history view genres as flexible living forms that inspire more creative and experimental representations of the past. Creative historical writing is thus challenging conventional genre categorization. New ways of articulating history compete with the traditional model of historical prose. Indeed, the…
Making History by Contextualizing Oneself
This essay argues that, in their reflection of theoretical positions, autobiographies by historians may become valid historical writings (that is, both true narratives and legitimate historical interpretations) and, as a consequence and simultaneously, privileged sources for historiographical inquiry and evidence of its evolution. At the beginning of the twentyfirst century, following the model established by Carolyn Steedman, historians such as …
Biography and Autobiography Between Tradition and Innovation
Biography and Autobiography Between Tradition and InnovationThe Year in Spain Jaume Aurell (bio) A survey of life writing in Spain over the past year reveals what appears at first sight to be rather a mixed bag. Spanish writers and scholars remain dubious of Jill K. Conway's dictum on the value of biographical and autobiographical writing: "the magical opportunity of entering another life is what really sets us thinking about our own" (18). For i…
Rethinking Historical Genres in the Twenty-First Century
Adventures of a Postmodern Historian
Robert A. Rosenstone is an unclassifiable historian who has moved through various historical genres. The subjects and figures he has analysed have always been found at the margins of the areas priv
Rethinking History’s essential tension
This article proposes a story of Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice since its founding in 1997. It analyses the journal’s contributions to historical theory and practice in the past, examines the situation in the present and projects some challenges for the future. It focuses on the idea that the original ambitious project proposed by the founding editors has led the journal to engage with an essential tension between traditio…
La liturgia en la Edad Media
Historiadores "románticos" e historiadores "científicos" en la historiografía catalana contemporánea
Uno de los debates clásicos de la historiografía catalana del siglo XX ha sido la división que formuló Jaume Vicens Vives, en los años treinta, entre "historiadores románticos" e "historiadores científicos". En el debate que se originó a raíz de la formulación de esta dicotomía, intervinieron historiadores como Ferran Soldevila, Antoni Rovira i Virgili, Ramon d'Abadal o el mismo Vicens Vives. En los artículos periodísticos cruzados por esos histo…
Writing Beyond Time
When we think in terms of the durability of historical texts, some works instantly come to mind: Herodotus's, Thucydides's, and Polybius's war narratives, Plutarch's comparative biographies, Eusebius's ecclesiastical history, Augustine's City of God, Jean Froissart's chronicles, Francesco Guicciardini's history of Florence, Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Jules Michelet's History of France, Leopold von Ranke's History of the…
History and Autobiography
Experimentation and theorising on forms of life writing from the field of history has grown substantially in recent decades, as historians understand how autobiographical narrative may contribute to understanding both the past and our processes of accessing it. The introduction to this special issue on ‘History and Autobiography’ outlines some theoretical debates emerging from the intersection of history with different forms of self-representatio…
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