Alguns exemples de manipulacions falsificades en documents altmedievals catalans

The catalan archives keep a great number of documents related to early medieval centuries; unfortunately, a lot of them are not original documents; so, they can have suffered several kinds of forgery. The aim of this study is to examine two documents of which we have different versions. The first document is composed of two parchments related to the estate of the monastery of Sant Cugat del Vallès in Cervelló: the comparison between them shows how various little interpolations allowed the monastery to enlarge its ownership. The second document, of which we have three copies, shows also how the different versions transform a simple donation of the site of Puigperdiguers on a feudal estate, includint the servitude of the resident peasants

Algunes consideracions sobre la metrologia altmedieval catalana

This is a study on the Catalonian Early Medieval metrology that offers an accumulation of equivalencies, denominations and different linear measures, between X and XII centuries

La baronia d'Utxafava (1283-1422)

Unlike it is usually held, medieval noble families often divided its states among their sons, instead of leaving the whole possession to the first-born male. This article is about the division of the states of the house of Anglesola, and, mainly, about the last of the lordships that emerged from its repeated divisions: the barony of Utxafava. Thanks to the will of his first lord and some other documents we can know about the family possessions, the relations between its members, and their very complex hereditary customs. Twice the inheritance went from a son to the mother and from the mother to a nephew. At the end, the barony came back to the original lordship through purchasing