In the Crown of Aragon, 639 years ago, it was New Year's Day. In Episode 1, I lay out some general expectations for how the podcast will go. Each 15-minute daily episode features a document from that day in 1387, the first year of Joan and Violant’s reign as King and Queen of the Crown of Aragon. Sometimes an episode will focus on that document’s content and other times the document will simply jumpstart a conversation about some background knowledge.
Read more about this document on the episode page on Jonathan' s website, https://jonathanseyfried.net/historians-notebook-s1-episodes/e1-dec25
Today's Document:
In the late-fourteenth-century the Crown of Aragon, the new year began on the same day as Christmas, December 25th.
On this day, Violant de Bar, not yet queen, wrote to the political leaders of the city of Montpellier about some troublesome students of Aragonese origin.
There are over 60,000 documents connected to Joan and Violant in the Archive of the Crown of Aragon. This season of The Historian’s Notebook will take you on a journey into that abundant source of historical information. Thematically, the podcast will also explore how medievalists today write about gender in the Middle Ages.
Music Credits
The music in this episode is from The Troubadour Dance Instrumental by Melody Ayers-Griffiths
