The assemblies of Alfonso VIII of Castile: Burgos (1169) to Carrión (1188)

Costabal, José Manuel Cerda

doi:10.1080/17546559.2011.556703

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“…Research on representative institutions has had a solid foothold in medieval studies for generations. Assemblies have attracted “perhaps more scholarly attention than any other subject within the institutional history of medieval Europe” (Cerda 2011: 62). In the latest decade, they have also made a spectacular entry in political science and economics, spurred by the economic and political effects attributed to European institutions of constraints on the executive.…”

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The Birth of Representative Institutions: The Case of the Crown of Aragon

Møller¹

2017

Soc. sci. hist.

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A new research agenda within political science and economics has been devoted to elucidating the development of medieval representative institutions. However, if we wish to get a clearer grasp of the birth of representative institutions, much more detailed data are needed. This paper introduces and interrogates a new data set on assemblies in one of the first instances where representative institutions arose: the Crown of Aragon. An analysis of these new data, which cover the period 1100–1327, supports several important conclusions. First, the development of representative institutions took place in a couple of brief “bursts” of activity. Second, factors pertaining to the establishment of public order (land peace and the regulation of succession) feature as more important than “geopolitical” factors (war and taxation) in the early part of the period, but the latter factors become more important after assemblies turn representative; indeed, they turn out to be crucial for understanding how assemblies eventually came to constrain rulers. A comparison with the only other early case of representative institutions on which there are good data, thirteenth- and early-fourteenth-century England, supports a third finding: There is a striking, temporal parallelism in the development of representative institutions across the two realms.

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The Birth of Representative Institutions: The Case of the Crown of Aragon

Møller¹

2017

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“…We can illustrate the kind of consistency we are urging by touching upon the burgeoning literature on the advent and character of medieval representative institutions (Abramson and Boix 2017; Blaydes and Chaney 2013; Stasavage 2011; van Zanden, Buringh, and Bosker 2012). Here, social scientists are in the fortunate situation that among historians, these institutions have attracted “perhaps more scholarly attention than any other subject within the institutional history of medieval Europe” (Cerda 2011:62) and that historians broadly use the same concepts as social scientists. Already Marongiu (1968) contrasted “pre-parliaments” or assemblies of notables with genuine parliaments or representative institutions (pp.…”

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The Ulysses Principle: A Criterial Framework for Reducing Bias When Enlisting the Work of Historians

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Skaaning

2018

Sociological Methods & Research

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The historical turn in social science has prompted scholars to engage with the work of historians on a large scale. Here, social scientists face two standard problems of selection bias: confirmation bias and convenience sampling. So far, the record of dealing with these problems has been poor, and little has been done to specify how social scientists can sift a broader body of historiography. We present a criterial framework that describes how social scientists can mitigate bias when using historical studies. We term the idea behind this framework the Ulysses Principle because it can be understood as a way of avoiding the siren call of confirmation bias when using historical sources as the primary evidentiary base. The framework includes considerations about conceptual consistency, the theoretical vantage points of historical sources, and updated evidence. The three criteria and the trade-offs between them are illustrated using two recent examples from comparative historical analyses.

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A framework for congruence analysis in comparative historical analysis of political change

Møller

2016

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Scholars engaging in comparative historical analysis rely on observational data. The use of these data to analyze causal factors is affected by a number of problems that follow from studying historical developments. First, scholars often face a dearth of data which inhibits both large-n statistical analysis and in-depth qualitative analysis of individual cases. Second, scholars often confront the problem of historical diffusion, a problem that is in itself aggravated by the absence of good historical data. Against this backdrop, this paper devises a "middle-range" framework based on congruence analysis. This framework includes considerations about case selection in the face of diffusion and about the kind of within-case evidence that allows scholars to analyze the causes of political change. The framework devises a systematic way of converting narrative historical descriptions into within-case binary observations. This conversion allows other scholars to replicate the analysis in a transparent way and to probe the validity of the scoring based on the sources referred to. The framework is illustrated via empirical analysis of the origins and development of representative institutions in the medieval Crown of Aragon.

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The assemblies of Alfonso VIII of Castile: Burgos (1169) to Carrión (1188)

Cited by 7 publications

References 7 publications

The Birth of Representative Institutions: The Case of the Crown of Aragon

The Birth of Representative Institutions: The Case of the Crown of Aragon

The Ulysses Principle: A Criterial Framework for Reducing Bias When Enlisting the Work of Historians

A framework for congruence analysis in comparative historical analysis of political change

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