From Heaven to Earth : : The Reordering of Castilian Society, 1150-1350 / / Teofilo F. Ruiz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Ruiz, Teofilo F.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface and Acknowledgments --; Introduction. From Heaven to Earth --; 1. A Taste for the New: Commerce, Property, and Language --; 2. The Evidence of Wills --; 3. Property: Wills and the Law in Medieval Castile --; 4. Itemizing the World: Boundaries, Consolidation of Property, and Rights of Way --; 5. Family and Property: Lineages and Primogeniture --; 6. Heavenly Concerns: Charity and Salvation --; 7. Toward a New Concept of Power: Unsacred Monarchy --; Conclusion --; Appendix --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400880126; 9783110442502
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400880126
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Teofilo F. Ruiz.

Between the late twelfth century and the mid fourteenth, Castile saw a reordering of mental, spiritual, and physical space. Fresh ideas about sin and intercession coincided with new ways of representing the self and emerging perceptions of property as tangible. This radical shift in values or mentalités was most evident among certain social groups, including mercantile elites, affluent farmers, lower nobility, clerics, and literary figures--"middling sorts" whose outlooks and values were fast becoming normative. Drawing on such primary documents as wills, legal codes, land transactions, litigation records, chronicles, and literary works, Teofilo Ruiz documents the transformation in how medieval Castilians thought about property and family at a time when economic innovations and an emerging mercantile sensibility were eroding the traditional relation between the two. He also identifies changes in how Castilians conceived of and acted on salvation and in the ways they related to their local communities and an emerging nation-state. Ruiz interprets this reordering of mental and physical landscapes as part of what Le Goff has described as a transition "from heaven to earth," from spiritual and religious beliefs to the quasi-secular pursuits of merchants and scholars. Examining how specific groups of Castilians began to itemize the physical world, Ruiz sketches their new ideas about salvation, property, and themselves--and places this transformation within the broader history of cultural and social change in the West.