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The Crown of Aragon
A Singular Mediterranean Empire
Series: - Brill's Companions to European History, Volume: 12
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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 MartÃ-Setañés, Sebastiana Nocco, Antoni Riera, Flocel Sabaté and Antoni Simon.
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 MartÃ-Setañés, Sebastiana Nocco, Antoni Riera, Flocel Sabaté and Antoni Simon.
Flocel Sabaté, Ph.D. (1993), University of Barcelona, is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Lleida. He has written and edited many publications, including, Historical Analysis of Catalan Identity (Bern, 2015) and Percepció i identificació dels catalans a lâedat mitjana (Barcelona, 2016).
'All the authors place the political, literary, linguistic, artistic, architectural, regional, social and economic history of the Crown of Aragon within a larger regional history of the Mediterranean, making this a recommended read for medievalists, Renaissance scholars, and early modernists. [...] this important volume will be of great value to any student of European history''. Silvia Z.Mitchell, in Reviews , November 2019.
"[...]wird mit einer multiperspektivischen,modernen und verlässlichen Gesamtschau eines bedeutenden spätmittelalterlichen Reichs belohnt, die allzu lange gefehlt hat." Nikolas Jaspert in Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung, 2020.
"[...]wird mit einer multiperspektivischen,modernen und verlässlichen Gesamtschau eines bedeutenden spätmittelalterlichen Reichs belohnt, die allzu lange gefehlt hat." Nikolas Jaspert in Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung, 2020.
Preface
âFlocel Sabaté
List of Maps
List of Contributors
1 The Crown of Aragon in Itself and Overseas: A Singular Mediterranean Empire
âFlocel Sabaté
2 The Northeast Iberian Peninsula and its Muslim Rulers (8thâ12th Century)
âJesús Brufal
3 Aragon and the Catalan Counties Before the Union
âAdam J. Kosto
4 An Intense but Stymied Occitan Campaign
âPere Benito
5 The Culture (9thâ12th Centuries): Clerics and Troubadours
âIsabel Grifoll
6 The Romanesque in the Mountains and on the Border
âXavier Barral-i-Altet
7 Territory, Power and Institutions in the Crown of Aragon
âFlocel Sabaté
8 The Beginnings of Urban Manufacturing and Long Distance Trade
âAntoni Riera
9 Crises and Changes in the Late Middle Ages
âAntoni Riera
10 The Commercial Influence of the Crown of Aragon in the Eastern Mediterranean (13thâ15th Centuries)
âDamien Coulon
11 The People: Labourers and Rulers in an Expanding Society
âMaria Bonet
12 Islands and the Control of the Mediterranean Space
âAlessandra Cioppi and Sebastiana Nocco
13 Language: From the Countryside to the Royal Court
âLola Badia and Isabel Grifoll
14 Writers at the End of Middle Ages
âLola Badia
15 A Gothic Mediterranean Catalan Art
âXavier Barral-i-Altet
16 Identities in Contact in the Mediterranean
âFlocel Sabaté
17 The Medieval Legacy: Constitutionalism versus Absolutism. The Case of Catalonia
âAntoni Simon
18 The Medieval Heritage: Islands and Territories with a Specific Identity?
âLuciano Gallinari and Esther Martà Sentañes
19 The Catalans and the Mediterranean
âDavid Abulafia
Bibliography
Index
âFlocel Sabaté
List of Maps
List of Contributors
1 The Crown of Aragon in Itself and Overseas: A Singular Mediterranean Empire
âFlocel Sabaté
2 The Northeast Iberian Peninsula and its Muslim Rulers (8thâ12th Century)
âJesús Brufal
3 Aragon and the Catalan Counties Before the Union
âAdam J. Kosto
4 An Intense but Stymied Occitan Campaign
âPere Benito
5 The Culture (9thâ12th Centuries): Clerics and Troubadours
âIsabel Grifoll
6 The Romanesque in the Mountains and on the Border
âXavier Barral-i-Altet
7 Territory, Power and Institutions in the Crown of Aragon
âFlocel Sabaté
8 The Beginnings of Urban Manufacturing and Long Distance Trade
âAntoni Riera
9 Crises and Changes in the Late Middle Ages
âAntoni Riera
10 The Commercial Influence of the Crown of Aragon in the Eastern Mediterranean (13thâ15th Centuries)
âDamien Coulon
11 The People: Labourers and Rulers in an Expanding Society
âMaria Bonet
12 Islands and the Control of the Mediterranean Space
âAlessandra Cioppi and Sebastiana Nocco
13 Language: From the Countryside to the Royal Court
âLola Badia and Isabel Grifoll
14 Writers at the End of Middle Ages
âLola Badia
15 A Gothic Mediterranean Catalan Art
âXavier Barral-i-Altet
16 Identities in Contact in the Mediterranean
âFlocel Sabaté
17 The Medieval Legacy: Constitutionalism versus Absolutism. The Case of Catalonia
âAntoni Simon
18 The Medieval Heritage: Islands and Territories with a Specific Identity?
âLuciano Gallinari and Esther Martà Sentañes
19 The Catalans and the Mediterranean
âDavid Abulafia
Bibliography
Index
All interested in medieval Europe, in particular the history of the medieval Mediterranean, culture, and trade, and especially Iberia and Italy in the Middle Ages.