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In the process of revitalisation of Diplomatic there is an area that has hardly been dealt with, although it is known and studied from other perspectives. It is the set of gestures and signs that used to be reflected some documentary typologies, rarely analysed in relation to the document itself, to which they are associated: touching with the hands, the ceremonial of taking possession; some relevant signs, such as the key, the book or the tree; privileged spaces; cutting the document to indicate multiple originals or their cancellation, and the materiality of the details. In this paper we seek to examine some of these gestures in the medieval documentation of the kingdom of Valencia. The reading of these gestures, together with the documents they accompany, allows us to improve the understanding of the meaning of the document in a specific society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Lesser nobility in the Kingdom of Valencia in the Late Middle Ages is a topic that offer vast possibilities to research, which would enable us to further an better understand the political evolution and relations of power in the aforesaid kingdom during the 14th and 15th centuries. Therefore, in this paper we'll try to examinate the origins and familiar composition of the city of Valencia lesser nobility at the end of the 14th century and to recognize the problematics of feud and elite unrest in this period through questions such as the wealth management and kinship or affinity relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]