The Crown of Aragon : A Singular Mediterranean Empire.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Maps -- List of Contributors -- Chapter 1 The Crown of Aragon in Itself and Overseas: A Singular Mediterranean Empire -- Chapter 2 The Northeast Iberian Peninsula and its Muslim Rulers (Eighth-Twelfth Century) -- Chapter 3 Aragon and the Catalan Counties Before the Union -- Chapter 4 An Intense but Stymied Occitan Campaign -- Chapter 5 The Culture (Ninth-Twelfth Centuries): Clerics and Troubadours -- Chapter 6 The Romanesque in the Mountains and on the Border -- Chapter 7 Territory, Power and Institutions in the Crown of Aragon -- Chapter 8 The Beginnings of Urban Manufacturing and Long Distance Trade -- Chapter 9 Crises and Changes in the Late Middle Ages -- Chapter 10 The Commercial Influence of the Crown of Aragon in the Eastern Mediterranean (Thirteenth-Fifteenth Centuries) -- Chapter 11 The People: Labourers and Rulers in an Expanding Society -- Chapter 12 Islands and the Control of the Mediterranean Space -- Chapter 13 Language: From the Countryside to the Royal Court -- Chapter 14 Writers at the End of Middle Ages -- Chapter 15 A Gothic Mediterranean Catalan Art -- Chapter 16 Identities in Contact in the Mediterranean -- Chapter 17 The Medieval Legacy: Constitutionalism versus Absolutism. The Case of Catalonia -- Chapter 18 The Medieval Heritage: Islands and Territories with a Specific Identity? -- Chapter 19 The Catalans and the Mediterranean -- Bibliography -- Index of Places and Persons.

The Crown of Aragon. A Singular Mediterranean Empire recovers the history of an important late medieval crossroads, that brought peoples from Iberia to Greece together and promoted culture as a means of cohesion.

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