Julio
Escalona Monge

Institute of History (IH)
Senior Scientist
Dept. of Medieval Studies
Networks of Power in Medieval Societies
Office
2E9
Phone
916022331 / Extensión interna: 441235
https://digital.csic.es/cris/rp/rp08685
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Curriculum Vitae
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Specialization field
Medieval history and archaeology; Power and Society in the Early Middle Ages; Early Medieval Territoriality; Written culture and the forgery of documents; Documentary sources of the Middle Ages; Computer-assisted analysis of cartularies
Publications

(selected)

Monographs:

Julio Escalona: Sociedad y territorio en la Alta Edad Media castellana. La formación del Alfoz de Lara, British Archaeological Reports, Int. Series, 1079 (Oxford: Barhedges, 2002).

Edition of collective volumes:

Julio Escalona, Álvaro Carvajal y Cristina Jular: Conflict, language, and social practice in medieval societies (Turnhout: Brepols, 2024).

Julio Escalona, Orri Vésteinsson and Stuart Brookes: Polity and Neighbourhood in Early Medieval Europe, (Turnhout: Brepols, 2019).

Julio Escalona and Hélène Sirantoine: Chartes et cartulaires comme instruments de pouvoir. Espagne et Occident chrétien, VIIIe-XIIe siècles (Meridiennes – CSIC: Toulouse, 2013).

Julio Escalona and Andrew Reynolds: Scale and scale change y the Early Middle Ages. Exploring landscape, local society and the world beyond (Turnhout: Brepols, 2011)

Isabel Alfonso, Hugh Kennedy, Julio Escalona: Building legitimacy. Political discourses and forms of legitimation in medieval societies (Leiden: Brill, 2004)

Isabel Alfonso, Julio Escalona, Georges Martin: Lucha política. Condena y legitimación en la España medieval (Lyon: ENS, 2004)

Journal Articles (selected recent, peer-reviewed):

Julio Escalona y Álvaro Carvajal: “Las iglesias locales como escenario de juramentos judiciales en el noroeste de la península ibérica altomedieval”, Hispania Sacra, 154 (2024).

Sonia Serna and Julio Escalona: “Falsificaciones y procesos judiciales. Contexto de producción y utilización de un supuesto original de San Pedro de Cardeña”, Anuario de Estudios Medievales, 52/2, (2022), 887-916.

Julio Escalona and Álvaro Carvajal Castro: “The value of status: monetary penalties in the charters from León (854–1037)”, Journal of Medieval History, 46, (2019), pp. 23-49.

Julio Escalona, Cristina Jular Pérez-Alfaro, and Anna Bellettini: "Two graphical models for the analysis and comparison of cartularies", Digital Medievalist, 11, (2017).

Escalona, Julio: “The Endings of Early Medieval Kingdoms: Murder or Natural Causes?”, Reti Medievali Rivista, 17-2, (2016) [1]-[11].

Escalona, Julio. "In the name of a distant king: representing royal authority in the county of Castile, c.900–1038", Early Medieval Europe 24,1 (2016): 74-102.

Escalona, Julio, Isabel Velázquez Soriano, Paloma Juárez. "Identification of the sole extant charter issued by Fernán González, Count of Castile (932-970)", Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies 4,1 (2012): 259-88.

Escalona, Julio. "The early Castilian peasantry: An archaeological turn?". Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies 1,2 (2009): 119-45.

Book chapters (selected recent, in peer-reviewed volumes):

Julio Escalona: "Commons and the Political in early medieval Castile", in Igor Santos Salazar (ed.), Social complexity and weak states: The forms of governance in Western Europe between the eighth and eleventh centuries, Bilbao, Universidad del País Vasco, 2024, pp. 123-135.

Julio Escalona and Álvaro Carvajal Castro: "Mills and the politics of water management in the NW of the Iberian Peninsula, 900-1050", in Iñaki Martín Viso (ed.), Political landscapes in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages: the Iberian Northwest in the Context of Southern Europe, Reti Medievali e-Books, Firenze, Reti Medievali, 2024, pp. 225-247.

Julio Escalona: “Feudalismos de ida y vuelta”, in Iñaki Martín Viso (ed.) Los procesos de formación del feudalismo: La península ibérica en el contexto europeo, Gijón: Trea, 2023, pp. 315-27.

Julio Escalona: “One Monk, one Donkey, one Dead Man: Contexts for a Homicide in a Tenth-Century Sahagún Charter”, in I. Alfonso; J. M. Andrade; A. Marques (eds.) Records and Processes of Dispute Settlement in Early Medieval Societies: Iberia and Beyond, Leiden: Brill, 2023, 364-86.

Julio Escalona: “The Tenth-Century Castilian Church in the Wider Iberian Context: The Large Gap between Ideal and Reality”, in S. Panzram and P. Poveda (eds.) Bishops under Threat. Contexts and Episcopal Strategies in the Late Antique and Early Medieval West, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023, 139-164.

Julio Escalona: “Early medieval state formation: A view from two peripheries”, in J. C. Moreno García (ed.), From House Societies to States: Early Political Organisation from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, Oxford - Philadelphia: Oxbow, 2022, pp. 259-79.

Julio Escalona and Iñaki Martín Viso. “The Life and Death of an Historiographical Folly: The Early Medieval Depopulation and Repopulation of the Duero Basin”, in Beyond the Reconquista: New Directions in the History of Medieval Iberia (711-1085), ed. Simon Barton y Robert Portass (Leiden: Brill, 2020), 21-51.

Escalona, Julio, "Dense Local Knowledge: Grounding Local to Supralocal Relationships in Tenth-Century Castile", in Escalona, Julio, Vésteinsson, Orri y Brookes, Stuart, eds., Polity and Neighbourhood in Early Medieval Europe, The Medieval Countryside, 21, Turnhout, Brepols, 2019, pp. 351–379.

Julio Escalona, "Community Meetings in Early Medieval Castile: An Exploration", in Reynolds, Andrew, Carroll, Jayne y Yorke, Barbara, ed., Power and Place in Europe in the First Millennium AD, Proceedings of the British Academy, 224, London, The British Academy, 2019, pp. 216-237.

Escalona, Julio, "¿Un “cartulario milagroso”? Cronología y proyecto en los Miraculos Romançados de Santo Domingo de Silos", in Jardin, Jean-Pierre, Rochwert-Zuili, Patricia y Thieulin-Pardo, Hélène, ed., Histoires, femmes, pouvoirs. Mélanges offerts au Professeur Georges Martin, Rencontres, 368, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2018, pp. 159-199.

Research projects

(Only as PI of major projects, funded through competitive calls)

International

1. CLAIMing land in early medieval localitieS: an interdisciplinary study of land claims and property regimes in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula (9th-11th). ERC (MSC-IF actions). Fellow: Álvaro Carvajal Castro (Ref: 793905). 24/06/2021 – 23/12/2022. Funding: 92.491,20 €.

National

1. Información, poder y conflicto en el reino asturleonés (ss. IX-XI). Funding body: Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, PID2024-155273NB-C44. 01/09/2025- 31/08/2029. Funding: 55,000 €.

2. Diferenciación social en estratos no aristocráticos en la Alta Edad Media: El NW ibérico en perspectiva comparada. Min. Ciencia e Innovación (Ref.: PID2020-112506GB-C44). 01/09/2021 – 31/08/2025. Funding: 60.500,00 €.

3. Dividing space in early medieval Iberia: Forms, scales and actors. Min. Economía y Competitividad (Ref.: HAR2016-76094-C4-3-R). 01/01/2017 – 31/12/2020. Funding: 53.240,00 €

4. Redes monásticas y complejidad social en el condado de Castilla. Min. (Ref.: HAR2013-47889-C3-2-P). 01/01/2015 — 31/12/2017. Funding: 22.000,00 €.

5. Los Fundamentos del Espacio Europeo (II). Identidades locales y estados emergentes en la Europa altomedieval. Min. Ciencia e Innovación (Ref.: HAR2010-21950-C03-01). 1-1-2011 — 31-12-2014. Funding: 42.350,00 €.

Datos tomados de la base de datos ConCiencia

Serna Serna, S.; Escalona, J. (2022). FORGED DOCUMENTS AND JUDICIAL PROCESSES. THE CONTEXTS OF PRODUCTION AND USE OF AN ALLEGED ORIGINAL CHARTER FROM THE MONASTERY OF SAN PEDRO DE CARDEÑA FALSIFICACIONES Y PROCESOS JUDICIALES. CONTEXTO DE PRODUCCIÓN Y UTILIZACIÓN DE UN SUPUESTO ORIGINAL DEL MONASTERIO DE SAN PEDRO DE CARDEÑA*. Anuario de Estudios Medievales, 52, 887-916.
Julio Escalona (2016). In the name of a distant king: representing royal authority in the county of Castile, c.900¿1038. Early Medieval Europe, 24, 74-102.
Escalona, J. (2016). The endings of early Medieval Kingdoms: Murder or natural causes?. Reti Medievali, 17, 371-381.
Julio Escalona (2017). Cartularios, Memoria y Discurso en la Castilla Medieval. En La memoria del poder, el poder de la memoria (XXVII Semana de Estudios Medievales) (pp. 163-203). Editorial: Instituto de Estudios Riojanos.
Álvaro Carvajal Castro; Julio Escalona; Iñaki Martín Viso; Igor Santos Salazar (2020). Collective action in local contexts in the Kingdom of León (9th-11th centuries): An exploration of the charter evidence. En Archaeology and history of peasantries. 1, From the late prehistory to the middle ages (pp. 149-162). Editorial: Euskal Herriko Uniberstsitatea [Universidad del País Vasco] (UPV/EHU).
Julio Escalona (2019). Community Meetings in Early Medieval Castile: An Exploration. En Power and Place in Europe in the First Millennium AD (pp. 216-237). Editorial: Oxford University Press (OUP).
Julio Escalona (2019). Dense Local Knowledge: Grounding Local to Supralocal Relationships in Tenth-Century Castile. En Polity and Neighbourhood in Early Medieval Europe (pp. 351-379). Editorial: Brepols.
Julio Escalona; Cristina Jular Pérez-Alfaro; Isabel Alfonso (2017). El medievalismo, lo medieval y el CSIC en el primer franquismo. En El franquismo y la apropiación del pasado. El uso de la historia, de la arqueología y de la historia del arte para la legitimación de la dictadura (pp. 159-188). Editorial: Pablo Iglesias, Editorial.
Julio Escalona (2020). ORGANIZACIÓN ECLESIÁSTICA Y TERRITORIALIDAD EN CASTILLA ANTES DE LA REFORMA GREGORIANA. En La construcción de la territorialidad en la Alta Edad Media (pp. 167-201). Editorial: Universidad de Salamanca.
Julio Escalona (2019). Polities, Neighbourhoods and things in between. En Polity and Neighbourhood in Early Medieval Europe (pp. 11-38). Editorial: Brepols.
Julio Escalona; Iñaki Martín Viso (2020). The Life and Death of an Historiographical Folly: The Early Medieval Depopulation and Repopulation of the Duero Basin. En Beyond the Reconquista: New Directions in the History of Medieval Iberia (711-1085) (pp. 21-51). Editorial: Brill.
Álvaro Carvajal Castro; Julio Escalona; Orri Vésteinsson; Stuart Brookes (2019). The use of the term uilla in early medieval León: a review of the economic base of the Astur-Leonese monarchy (ninth-eleventh centuries). En Polity and Neighbourhood in Early Medieval Europe (pp. 325-349). Editorial: Brepols.
Julio Escalona (2020). Towards an Archaeology of State Formation in North-Western Iberia. En Social inequality in Early Medieval Europe: Local societies and beyond (pp. 33-53). Editorial: Brepols.
Julio Escalona (2018). "¿Un ""cartulario milagroso""? Cronología y proyecto en los Miraculos Romançados de Santo Domingo de Silos". En Histoires, femmes, pouvoirs. Mélanges offerts au Professeur Georges Martin (pp. 159-199). Editorial: Classiques Garnier.
Julio Escalona; Orri Vesteinsson; Stuart Brookes (2019). Polity and Neighbourhood in Early Medieval Europe (pp. 448). Brepols.