Transforming the state : : king, court and political culture in the realms of Aragon (1213-1387) / / by Marta VanLandingham.

• Superior document: Medieval Mediterranean ; Volume 43
• VerfasserIn: VanLandingham, Marta,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston ;, Köln : : Brill,, [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: Medieval Mediterranean ; Volume 43.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (268 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Map: The Realms of Aragon in the High Middle Ages -- Acknowledgements -- Genealogical Table: The Arago-Catalan Dynasty, Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries -- Introduction -- Approach to the Study of the Court -- Approach to the Study of the State -- Context: The Court of the Realms of Aragon -- Sources -- Plan of Study -- Note on Nomenclature -- Part One: The Chancery -- The King's Memory, Voice, Justice, and Conscience -- Chapter 1. The Chancellor: Office and Official -- The Chancellor as Portrayed in the Leges palatinae -- The Chancellor as Portrayed in the Ordenacions de cort -- The Chancellor Previous to the Reign of Pere the Great -- Arnau de Torre, Pere the Great's Chancellor on the Mainland -- Giovanni di Procida, Pere's Chancellor for Sicily -- Chapter 2. The Chancery: Personnel, Procedure, Innovation -- The Office of Director of the Chancery -- Pere de Sant Climent: A Biography -- Chancery Personnel and Procedures -- Procedural Innovations under Pere the Great -- Chapter 3. The King's Law: Royal Justice and Royal Administration -- Procedure and Personality in the Royal System of Justice -- Royal Courts of Law and Programs of Kingship -- Chapter 4. The Royal Chapel: Religious Regulations and the Ordering of the State -- Prelude: The Chapel in the Thirteenth Century -- The Fourteenth-Century Ordinances, the Chapel, and the State -- Part Two The Treasury -- The King's Purse -- Chapter 5. Royal Finances and Financial Administration Before 1283 -- Royal Finances in the Thirteenth-Century Realms of Aragon -- Central Financial Administration Before 1283 -- Chapter 6. The Creation of Central Financial Offices -- Part Three: The Household -- The King'S Body -- Chapter 7. The High Offices and Officials of the Household.

Pere the Great's Palatine Ordinances: Inception -- The High Officials of the Household -- Chapter 8. The Needs of King, Queen, and Court: Table, Lodging, and Entertainment -- The Table -- Lodging and Security -- Entertainment -- The Domestic Influence of the Queen -- Conclusion -- Appendices: Palatine Ordinances -- Appendix A: First Ordinances of Pere the Great -- Appendix B: Ordinances of Pere the Great of 23 April 1277 -- Appendix C: Ordinances of Alfons the Liberal of 28 February 1287 -- Appendix D: Ordinances of Alfons the Liberal of 11 March 1288 -- Appendix E: Ordinances of Alfons the Liberal of 1 May 1291 -- Appendix F: Ordinances of Jaume II of 23 August 1308 -- Bibliography -- Index -- The Medieval Mediterranean Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 400-1500.