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The assaults and aggressions that road and trail users suffered from alleged bandits and outlaws have been a historical constant. As a result, the social perception of the bandit as a road robber. However, one might ask: To what extent is this image true and accurate? Was this always indiscriminate and fortuitous violence exercised by simple robbers and the ragged? Or, on the contrary, was there some premeditation? Did the assailants know, or not, the identity of their victim? Were the aggressor and the victim part of a faction or not? In this paper, I analyze a case of assault and aggression that occurred in 1536 on the royal road, near Carcaixent, a small village in the Kingdom of Valencia (Crown of Aragon). On that occasion, the Cosme brothers, Damià and Vicent Colomer, inhabitants of the present day Valldigna, assaulted the farmer Bertomeu Garrigues, stealing some of his belongings and causing serious injuries. What looks as a paradigmatic case of assault and aggression on the road by common criminals, proves to be a much more complex case when we go deeper into the identity and life trajectories of the protagonists and their respective families. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the second half of the 20th century, many Spanish Mediterranean areas have undergone important land use changes as a result of socioeconomic development (industrialization, urbanization, intensification of agriculture and livestock, dry crops abandonment). This paper describes, maps and quantifies the main transformations that have occurred in the middle Túria basin, an example of a medium Mediterranean mountain situated in the transition between the inner highlands and the coastal plain affected by the expansion of the Valencia metropolitan area. Photo-interpretation techniques and the analysis of series of the NDVI vegetation index obtained from satellite images have been used. The dynamic cartography of land use changes between 1956 to 2010 has let us identify the type and magnitude of the changes in order to be able to establish in the future the environmental implications in the hydrological response of the basin. Changes have been observed in 60 % of the basin, mainly the expansion in forest cover (scrub and forest) on the mountain areas and changes from dry to irrigated crops (citrus), showing a greening landscape which is in agreement with the process observed in other areas of Spain by other authors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the Modern Age, intensive agriculture with a high demographic potential and a high productive differential was consolidated in the Valencian coastal plains. This caused a certain imbalance between farmland and pasture land, which generated the need to complement territories at the regional level. The indications of this complementation between territories are observed between the Sierra de Enguera and some orchards of the Ribera, included in the municipality of Xàtiva, in the case of Farta Valley or Càrcer Valley. This paper explains a case study, based on the documentation preserved in the National Historical Archive, which suggests the practice of complementarity between territories at the regional level in Valencia during the Modern Age. Specifically, it is about the relationship maintained between livestock areas, the Enguera mountain, and intensive irrigated agriculture, the Càrcer Valley, in the Ribera del Xúquer. The reason why the Sierra de Enguera was used for livestock from Càrcer and Sumacàrcer can be understood for two reasons: the agrarian and demographic progress of the 16th century, which pushed livestock farming from the orchards to the wilderness, and the continuity of an earlier model of land use, due to the permanence of the Moorish population, although heavily conditioned and degraded. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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]

This work raises the possibilities of study offered by the repartimientos to deepen into the knowledge of the Andalusian fanādiq, the Castilian alhóndigas, and the Aragonese alfondechs. The repartimientos information found for the cities of Valencia, Murcia, and Seville, have been deeply analyzed. The aim is to identify the alhóndigas and the alfondechs of these cities to approach to the fanādiq of al-Andalus through the quantification, location and characteristics gathered. In this paper, after a brief presentation of the repartimiento system and its characteristics, we focus and develop the relationship between these three types of buildings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the paper is to obtain mobility parameters from the urban area of Valencia using geolocated data from Twitter. The objectives are: recognizing the scale of the movements depending on the visit frequency and quantifying the impact of the urban sprawl on the distances covered. Methodology starts locating the homes of Twitter users in order to use this position as the basis for the analysis. Once home location is obtained for each user, the rest of the positions are classified taking into account the number of times a place is visited. We distinguish between frequently and occasionally visited places. In this way, we observe habitual life spaces, where strategies of time consumption are reflected, and occasional life spaces, where movements are not so influenced by the distance. Finally, the impact of urban sprawl in the mobility is measured using distances covered by residents in discontinuous urban areas in comparison of residents in continuous urban areas. Results confirm the impact of discontinuous urbanization on the mobility with an average increase of 4 Km. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we propose the relevance of tracing the collections of documents in teacher training centres, the so-called Escuelas Normales (Normal Schools), and their importance for reconstructing the history of grammar teaching in general, and, in particular, the history of school grammar. In order to do this, we approached a specific type of document: the so-called "Development" or "Answers" to the syllabi of the Spanish language subject, and we also analyse one text addressed to the Escuelas Normales of Valencia, produced by the 'normal school' teacher Cervera y Royo in his 1898 syllabus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]