Yo la reyna. Studio e edizione del registro di cancelleria della regina Isabella la Cattolica (1484-1497)

Martina Del Popolo

doi:10.6093/978-88-6887-383-7

Yo la reyna. Studio e edizione del registro di cancelleria della regina Isabella la Cattolica (1484-1497)

Authors

Martina Del Popolo

Institución Milà i Fontanals de Investigación en Humanidades - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IMF-CSIC)

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6202-3561

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6887-383-7

Keywords:

Medieval Sicily, Camera reginalis, Isabella I of Castile, Catholic Kings, Chancellery

Synopsis

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: Regna. Texts and Studies on Institutions, Culture and Memory in Medieval Southern Italy

Pages: 500

Language: Italian

Abstract: This book presents the palaeographic and diplomatic study and edition of Royal Chancellery Register No. 3687, preserved in the Archive of the Crown of Aragon. This register is unique in that it is the only surviving document from the chancellery of Isabella of Castile in her capacity as Queen Consort of Aragon. The documents it contains are of great significance, as they relate entirely to the administration of the Catholic Queen’s lands in Sicily and Catalonia. Tàrrega, Vilagrassa, Sabadell, Syracuse, Lentini, Mineo, Vizzini, Francavilla, San Filippo d'Argirò, the ports of Brucoli and Agnone, and later Augusta, were granted to Isabella of Castile as a dower by virtue of her marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon—soon to become King Ferdinand II—according to the marriage capitulations of Cervera (1469). This patrimony constituted a crucial base of power for consolidating her status, rewarding her officials, and enhancing the prestige of her household. The register has been fully transcribed, with all 281 documents (162 in Latin, 113 in Spanish, 6 in Catalan, and 1 in Sicilian) identified individually, each accompanied by its respective date and regestum. In addition to the edition, an introductory study examines the register’s diplomatic and palaeographic features, as well as the various types of documents it comprises.

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Author Biography

Martina Del Popolo, Institución Milà i Fontanals de Investigación en Humanidades - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IMF-CSIC)

Martina Del Popolo holds a PhD in Medieval Cultures and Historical Sciences from the University of Barcelona and the University of San Marino. She is currently a Senior Specialist Technician in Research, Development, and Innovation (R&D) at the Milà i Fontanals Institute in Barcelona (CSIC). She is the author of the books Il patrimonio reginale di Isabella di Castiglia. Le signorie di Sicilia e Catalogna (1470-1504) (2022), based on her doctoral research, and Caterina Llull i Sabastida tra Sicilia e Catalogna. Edizione del suo secondo libro mastro (1479-1486) (2023), published together with Gemma T. Colesanti. She has conducted research on queens’ dowers and dowries, women’s work in medieval Syracuse, water management in the Pla de l’Urgell, and the commercial activities of Caterina Llull i Sabastida between Sicily and Catalonia.