Potencialidad productiva y rendimientos cerealícolas en la agricultura catalana contemporánea (1820-1935

Sobre l'evolució dels rendiments agraris entre 1825-1935 a Catalunya

Els Certàmens literaris a Barcelona, segles XIV-XVIII

Repàs de la història dels certàmens literaris a Barcelona fins a l’entrada de l’època contemporània, des del s. XIV fins al XVIII

La introducció de la mètrica italiana en la poesia catalana

Sobre la introducció del sonet a la literatura catalana i l'adaptació del decasíl·lab italià a la poesia

Francesc Vicent Garcia i el Barroc hispànic

Sobre la particularietat del Barroc català i de l'obra de Francesc Vicent Garcia dins el panorama de la literatura hispànica i el tractament que n'ha fet la historiografia literària

La risa del músico

Donde se localiza lo risible musical en las relaciones que el compositor establece con su propio material de trabajo, en la gravedad o en el peso relativo del efecto sonoro, con el que se logran divertimentos y humoradas para el oído del que escucha y placeres insospechados para el cuerpo atento y sorprendido por el recorrido musical; y donde finalmente, tras analizar diversos ejemplos, se propone una diferencia entre la mecánica de la risa musical anterior al siglo XX y aquella que es producto de la levedad consustancial a la música contemporánea.

Las últimas importaciones romanas de cerámica en el este de Hispania Tarraconensis: una aproximación

En los últimos años, se han publicado diversos estudios que han permitido tener un buen conocimiento sobre las importaciones (terra sigillata, ánforas, lucern as) en la costa de la antigua Hispania Tarraconensis en época romana tardía. Este conocimiento, concerniente a los contextos urbanos (las ciudades antiguas de Barcino, Tarraco y otras) y los establecimientos rurales, permite determinar las tendencias de las importaciones y la economía en esta área entre los siglos IV y finales del VI e inicios del VII d.C. El aumento de datos necesita una interpretación, orientada hacia la determinación de las tendencias del comercio y las importaciones, y la relación económica entre la ciudad y el campo en la actual Cataluña en la Antigüedad Tardía. Con esta contribución, esperamos poder colaborar en la elaboración de un trabajo interpretativo de síntesis sobre estos aspectos.

Language extinction and linguistic fronts

Language diversity has become greatly endangered in the past centuries owing to processes of language shift from indigenous languages to other languages that are seen as socially and economically more advantageous, resulting in the death or doom of minority languages. In this paper, we define a new language competition model that can describe the historical decline of minority languages in competition with more advantageous languages. We then implement this non-spatial model as an interaction term in a reactiondiffusion system to model the evolution of the two competing languages. We use the results to estimate the speed at which the more advantageous language spreads geographically, resulting in the shrinkage of the area of dominance of the minority language. We compare the results from our model with the observed retreat in the area of influence of the Welsh language in the UK, obtaining a good agreement between the model and the observed data

Hydrological evidence for a North Atlantic oscillation during the Little Ice Age outside its range observed since 1850.

An annual-resolved precipitation reconstruction for the last 800 yr in Southern Spain has been performed using stable carbon isotope (δ13C) of Pinus nigra tree rings. The reconstruction exhibits high- to low-frequency variability and distinguishes a Little Ice Age (LIA, AD 13501850) characterized by lower averaged rainfall than both in the transition from the Medieval Climate Anomaly to the LIA and in the 20th century. The driest conditions are recorded during the Maunder solar Minimum (mid 17thearly 18th centuries), in good agreement with the Spanish documentary archive. Similar linkage between solar activity (maximum/minimum) and precipitation (increase/decrease) is observed throughout the entire LIA. Additionally, the relationship between the hydrological pattern in the Iberian Peninsula and Morocco during the LIA suggests different spatial distribution of precipitation in the south-eastern sector of the North Atlantic region such as it is known currently. Whereas in the instrumental record the precipitation evolves similarly in both regions and opposite to the North Atlantic oscillation (NAO) index, the coldest periods of the LIA shows a contrasting pattern with drier conditions in the South of Spain and wetter in Northern Africa. We suggest an extreme negative NAO conditions, accompanied by a southward excursion of the winter rainfall band beyond that observed in the last century, can explain this contrast. The sustained NAO conditions could have been triggered by solar minima and higher volcanic activity during the LIA.

Interpretació amb baixó de les Lamentacions a la Mallorca dels segles XVIII i XIX

Aquest treball es centra en les lamentacions de Setmana Santa escrites a Mallorca durant els segles XVIII i XIX i el possible ús del baixó en la seva execució. La recerca sobretot te un objectiu pràctic: aquest estudi permetrà fer una proposta d’interpretació amb el baixó d’una de les lamentacions monòdiques trobada a la Catedral de Mallorca a partir de les informacions que es desprenen d’aquest i d’altres contextos similars.

The Role of Canyons in Strata Formation

This paper provides a spatial and temporal multi-scale approach of European submarine canyons. We fi rst present the long-term geologic view of European margins as related to controls on submarine canyon development. Then we discuss the extent to which submarine canyon systems resemble river systems because both essentially form drainage networks. Finally, we deal with the hortest-term, highestresolution scale to get a fl avor of the current functioning and health of modern submarine canyons in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea. Submarine canyons are unique features of the seafl oor whose existence was known by European fi shermen centuries ago, especially for those canyons that have their heads at short distance from shoreline. Popular names given to specifi c canyons in the different languages spoken in European coastal communities refer to the concepts of a"deep" or"trench." In the old times it was also common thinking that submarine canyons where so deep that nobody could measure their depth or even that they had no bottom. Submarine canyons are just one of the seven different types of seafl oor valleys identifi ed by Shepard (1973) in his pioneering morphogenetic classifi cation. Shepard (1973) defined submarine canyons as"steep-walled, sinuous valleys, with V-shaped cross sections, and relief comparable even to the largest of land canyons; tributaries are found in most of the canyons and rock outcrops abound on their walls." Canyons are features typical of continental slopes with their upper reaches and heads cut into the continental shelf.

La Cartografía: su influencia en la cultura europea y cómo los mapas de artista del siglo XX cuestionan la ley del mapa

Este trabajo es, por una parte, una investigación sobre los mapas de artistas de los siglos XX y XXI. Por otra parte, este trabajo es una investigación dividida en tres territorios dentro del mapa. La primera las cartografías políticas, la segunda los mapas de la experiencia vivida y la tercera las cartografías de lo intangible

La universitat pagesa

Article que descriu l' organització comunitària, política i representativa dels pagesos anomenada la universitat

Pere Compte, mestre major de l'obra de la Seu de Tortosa.

[cat] En aquest article es documenta Pere Compte com a mestre major de la Seu de Tortosa(1490), fet que es relaciona amb la promoció del protonotari apostòlic Joan Girona i es compara amb la direcció de les obres de Pere Moragues, que tingué lloc un segle abans. D'altra banda, es proposa la hipòtesi que sigui Pere Compte el responsable del disseny de la capella del Roser de l'esmentat edifici. També s'apunta la possibilitat que fos Antoni Queralt el mestre encarregat de dirigir el dia a dia de l'obra mentre Compte n'era absent i es posa de manifest la importancia que va poder tenir aquest mestre, especialment a Tortosa i a Lleida, a l'entorn del 1500. Finalment, es dóna notícia de la presencia d'altres mestres importants a la Tortosa del canvi de segles paral·lelament a la de Compte i Queralt al front de les obres de la Seu.

Sevillian transport jars in early colonial America: the case of Santa María La Antigua del Darién (Colombia)

Within the scope of the TECNOLONIAL (HAR2008-02834/HIST) project, an archaeologi- cal and archaeometric research is being conduct- ed in order to clarify and systematize transport jars production in the Iberian peninsula and their distribution abroad, especially to the Americas, from the 15th to the 17th century. The production centre of Seville, in the Crown of Castile, produced large glazed and unglazed transport jars, called botijas, which were mainly devoted to the Atlantic trade network. The pres- ent study accounts for the first results obtained from an initial sample of 34 transport jars dated around the 15th-16th centuries from the produc- tion centre of Seville and the reception site of Santa María de la Antigua del Darién (gulf of Urabá, Colombia). This latter site is especially significant since it was the first Spanish founda- tion (1510) in continental America that obtained the title of town, and was the seat for the Governor of the new region called Castilla de Oro, as well as for the first diocese. All individuals were analyzed by means of x-ray fluorescence and diffraction analyses and then compared with the majolica production database from Seville. The results enabled us to define the first refer- ence groups for such modern transport jars, and to get a first insight into the jars coming to the Americas in the early 16th century whose prove- nance can be linked to Seville, but not Triana.

Navegar y rezar: devoción y piedad de las gentes de mar barcelonesas (siglos XIV y XV)

Sobre la devoció i la pietat religiosa de la gent de mar de Barcelona dels segles XIV i XV