Past and Present in Medieval Spain

The studies included in this selection - the opening two being published for the first time - are concerned with various aspects of the history of Christian Spain between the 6th century and the 14th. A recurrent theme is that of the invention of the past: of the manner in which, for reasons which have seemed good to them, at different times and places, from Toledo in the 1240s to Cambridge in the 1920s, men have sought to appropriate and recolonise that past. Three more technical articles on the subject of 13th-century papal diplomatic in a Spanish setting illustrate the related activity of the invention of the future as reflected in the activity of the agents or proctors and others whose services were retained in order to ensure that it was their employer's particular view of the present that prevailed. Les tudes comprises dans cette slection, dont deux paraissent ici pour la premire fois, traitent des diffrents aspects de lhistoire de lEspagne chrtienne entre le 6e et le 14e sicle. Un thme frquent est celui de linvention du pass: la faon dont diffrentes poques et diffrents endroits, de Tolde en 1240 Cambridge en 1920, et pour des raisons qui lui semblent tre les bonnes, ltre humain sest efforc de sapproprier et de reconqurir le pass. Trois articles dordre plus techniques sur la diplomatique papale au 13e sicle dans un cadre espagnol, illustrent lactivit attenante qutait linvention de lavenir, telle quelle se traduisait au travers de laction dagents, de fonds de pouvoir et autres, dont les services taient requis afin que la vision du prsent de leurs employeurs prvale.