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Presentation of two acts commemorating the millennium celebrations of SANCHO III

Kultura / Euskal Herria - 2004/03/17

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On the occasion of the millennium celebrations of the coronation of King Sancho III el Mayor, Udalbiltza has financed the publishing of two books: one of a more academic and scientific nature: `Documentary collection on Sancho Garcés III el Mayor, King of Pamplona (1004-1035) ´; the other of a more informative nature: `Euskal Herria in the 11th century. Kingdom of Sancho II el Mayor, King of Pamplona (1004-1035).´(currently being published). For its part, Eusko Ikaskuntza (Society of Basque Studies) has organized the Open Day on Euskal Herria in the 11th C. Kingdom of Sancho III el Mayor of Pamplona (1004-1035).

`Documentary collection on Sancho Garcés III el Mayor, King of Pamplona (1004-1035)´.


The documentary collection on the monarch of Pamplona Sancho Garcés III el Mayor (1004-1035) comprises 86 documents, among which special mention should be given to those relating to the buying and selling, donations, privileges and, to a lesser extent, concessions as regards fueros (special privileges granted to Basques and Navarrese). This body of work does not attempt to disclose any unknown facts, but rather provide a textual transcription of all the documents by following a single criterion, as well as collating the different copies of the texts chosen as archetypes and noting the formal variants observed.

The archives, libraries and centres of documentation which house the documentation relating to Sancho el Mayor are the Archive of the Cathedral of Huesca, Archive of the Collegiate Church of Logroño, Archive of the Cathedral of Pamplona, Archive of the Cathedral of Palencia, General Archive of Navarre, General Archive of Simancas, National Historical Archive, Municipal Archive of Nájera, Archive of the Provisorato of Barbastro, Archive of the Library of the Monastery of Silos, Archive of San Millán de la Cogolla, National Library of Spain, National Library of France, Library of the Royal Academy of History and the University Library of Zaragoza.




Technical file

Authors: Roldan Jimeno and Aitor Pescador
Publishers: Nabarralde and Pamiela
Collaborators: Euskokultur Fundazioa and Foro Irun XXI
Sponsor: Udalbiltza
334 pages
2.500 copies
On sale to the public in bookshops
The prologue and introductions to the documents are in three languages: Spanish, Euskera and French.




Roldán JIMENO ARANGUREN

Graduate (1996) and Doctor in History (2001) from the University of Navarre, where he was Assistant Professor of Medieval History (1996-2001). Between 2001-2003, he was Professor of History at the University of Pau and of the Lands of the Adour (Faculty of Bayonne) and is currently Associate Professor of History of Law at the Public University of Navarre, a job which he combines with his work as Technician in charge of Scientific Management at the Institute of Historic Law of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). He is the coordinator of the International Magazine of Basque Studies and Technical Secretary of Notation Vasconiae... The author of ten books – some of them medieval documentary collections - and of different chapters in several other monographs, as well as around twenty articles in specialist magazines.




Aitor PESCADOR MEDRANO

Graduate in Philosophy and Arts (History) from the University of Navarra (1995). Fellow of the General Archive of Navarra in 1997, he has published several books about the records of Comptos of said Archive (2000-2002). He has also written around ten articles relating to different research projects, such as Hydraulic resources in the Middle Ages in Navarre (1998) and Tenants and Tenancies in the Kingdom of Pamplona in Araba, Bizkaia, Gipuzkoa, La Rioja and Castile (1004-1076) (1998). He is currently completing his doctorate about Araba, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa in the Kingdom of Navarre from the time of its origins until 1200. He is also a collaborator with the following Basque centres in Argentina: Fundación Vasco Argentina Juan de Garay, Euskal Etxea Toki Eder de José C. Paz and others, where he advises about different aspects of the History of the Basque Country.




An attempt is made through this Open Day to, on the one hand, meet the need to provide the historians and teachers of our land with a meeting place for suitable reflection which helps us to study this still hazy period of our past in depth and, on the other, carry out our study by limiting ourselves to the territories of Euskal Herria viewed as a historical subject. The originality of the scientific point of the view of the lecture is based on the centrality of Euskal Herria as historically being a territory. Therefore, it is necessary to rely on local historians from each of the herrialdes (territories) which provide a diversity of approaches and situations.


The most significant values from the period of history considered are stressed, emphasizing the most important points which that crucial change of millennium offers to our history and that of the nascent Europe, both in terms of the configuration of kingdoms and the cultural evolution of nascent societies.
The purpose, therefore, is to view it through the eyes of the society of the 21st century, which is also in the process of millennium change, and going beyond the limited descriptions more typical of the school compendiums of the past, attempting to study in depth what historians from other parts have had no interest in shedding light on and which, nonetheless, is important for our memory of history.




Pamplona, on the 17th of March 2004