The crown of Aragon : : a singular Mediterranean empire / / 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 an...

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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).
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • The Crown of Aragon in Itself and Overseas: A Singular Mediterranean Empire / Flocel Sabaté
  • The Northeast Iberian Peninsula and its Muslim Rulers (Eighth–Twelfth Century) / Jesús Brufal
  • Aragon and the Catalan Counties Before the Union / Adam J. Kosto
  • An Intense but Stymied Occitan Campaign / Pere Benito
  • The Culture (Ninth–Twelfth Centuries): Clerics and Troubadours / Isabel Grifoll
  • The Romanesque in the Mountains and on the Border / Xavier Barral-i-Altet
  • Territory, Power and Institutions in the Crown of Aragon / Flocel Sabaté
  • The Beginnings of Urban Manufacturing and Long Distance Trade / Antoni Riera
  • Crises and Changes in the Late Middle Ages / Antoni Riera
  • The Commercial Influence of the Crown of Aragon in the Eastern Mediterranean (Thirteenth–Fifteenth Centuries) / Damien Coulon
  • The People: Labourers and Rulers in an Expanding Society / Maria Bonet
  • Islands and the Control of the Mediterranean Space / Alessandra Cioppi and Sebastiana Nocco
  • Language: From the Countryside to the Royal Court / Lola Badia and Isabel Grifoll
  • Writers at the End of Middle Ages / Lola Badia
  • A Gothic Mediterranean Catalan Art / Xavier Barral-i-Altet
  • Identities in Contact in the Mediterranean / Flocel Sabaté
  • The Medieval Legacy: Constitutionalism versus Absolutism. The Case of Catalonia / Antoni Simon
  • The Medieval Heritage: Islands and Territories with a Specific Identity? / Luciano Gallinari and Esther Martí Sentañes
  • The Catalans and the Mediterranean / David Abulafia
  • Bibliography
  • Index.