Browsing by Subject "Batán"

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    Los batanes de Aragón (siglos XII-XVI).
    (Sociedad Española de Estudios Medievales., 2023) Navarro Espinach, Germán
    The industrial facilities in the Middle Ages had among their main protagonists the fulling mills within the fundamental sector of textile manufacturing. In the kingdom of Aragon there was still no specific study on this type of mills since they began to spread in Europe from the 13th century until reaching the Modern Age. This article covers this gap with new documentation that extends to more than sixty the number of draper mills located in thirty Aragonese municipalities. Some unpublished inventories allow us to know what was inside these buildings. The comparison with the 125 fulling mills that have also been identified in Aragon in the mid-19th century highlights the strength that rural industry had in medieval times far from urban centers.
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    La explotación de los molinos del puente mayor de Tudela (1350-1432)
    (2015-12-18) Burguete Gorosquieta, Mikel
    The stone bridge of Tudela, built during the reigns of Kings Sancho VI -also known as "The Wise King"- and Sancho VII -called "The Strong King"- served as a platform to raise a series of flour mills, which already existed in a previous bridge from the Islamic period. The use of these mills is documented since the 10 th century and in the period covered in our study, many of them had clear Arab reminiscences in their names, the meaning of which has been analyzed in this study. This paper addresses also the different types of exploitation in the mills of the bridge of Tudela in the 14th and 15th centuries. On the other hand, the transformation in the year 1387 of a flour mill into a fulling mill -along with the creation of a dyeing house and a cloth puller in the surroundings of the bridge- fits within a framework of economic growth and promotion of production driven by Carlos II.