The crown of Aragon : : a singular Mediterranean empire / / edited by Flocel Sabate ; linguistic correction by Chris Boswe.

• TeilnehmendeR: Sabaté, Flocel.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Companions to European History 12.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (577 pages).
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; The Crown of Aragon in Itself and Overseas: A Singular Mediterranean Empire /; The Northeast Iberian Peninsula and its Muslim Rulers (Eighth–Twelfth Century) /; Aragon and the Catalan Counties Before the Union /; An Intense but Stymied Occitan Campaign /; The Culture (Ninth–Twelfth Centuries): Clerics and Troubadours /; The Romanesque in the Mountains and on the Border /; Territory, Power and Institutions in the Crown of Aragon /; The Beginnings of Urban Manufacturing and Long Distance Trade /; Crises and Changes in the Late Middle Ages /; The Commercial Influence of the Crown of Aragon in the Eastern Mediterranean (Thirteenth–Fifteenth Centuries) /; The People: Labourers and Rulers in an Expanding Society /; Islands and the Control of the Mediterranean Space /; Language: From the Countryside to the Royal Court /; Writers at the End of Middle Ages /; A Gothic Mediterranean Catalan Art /; Identities in Contact in the Mediterranean /; The Medieval Legacy: Constitutionalism versus Absolutism. The Case of Catalonia /; The Medieval Heritage: Islands and Territories with a Specific Identity? /; The Catalans and the Mediterranean /; Bibliography --; Index.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004349618
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Flocel Sabate ; linguistic correction by Chris Boswe.

The Crown of Aragon. A Singular Mediterranean Empire recovers the history of an empire which was of great importance in the late medieval Mediterranean, but which has since been relegated almost to oblivion by the course of history. The Crown of Aragon was a Mediterranean crossroads: between west and east for the economy, and between north and south for culture and religion, drawing in many different peoples, covering Iberia to Greece. A new vision of the Crown of Aragon as a framework of overlapping identities facilitates its historiographical recovery, showcased in the chapters of this volume which analyse the economy, institutions, social evolution, political strategy and cultural expression in literature and art of the Crown of Aragon. Contributors are David Abulafia, Lola Badia, Xavier Barral-i-Altet, Pere Benito, Maria Bonet, Jesús Brufal, Alessandra Cioppi, Damien Coulon, Luciano Gallinari, Isabel Grifoll, Adam J. Kosto, Esther Martí-Setañés, Sebastiana Nocco, Antoni Riera, Flocel Sabaté and Antoni Simon.