The Medieval Crown of Aragon : A Short History (Clarendon Paperbacks)

Bisson, Thomas N.

Clarendon Press（1991/02発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 250 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780198202363
• DDC分類 946.5502

Full Description

This book is the first in English in more than half a century to survey this history of a great Mediterranean federation whose homelands were Catalonia and Aragon. Based on recent research, it seeks to convey a sense of the energy, drama, and colour of a creative and expansionist people between the twelfth and the fifteenth centuries. T. N. Bisson lays due stress on individual achievement and personality, while at the same time providing a balanced survey of political and dynastic evolution, institutional foundations, economic and cultural matters, and the socio-economic weaknesses which led eventually to a crisis in the federated realms of the late Middle Ages.

Contents

List of illustrations; List of maps; Prologue; Before the union; The age of the early count-kings (1137-1213); James the Conqueror (1213-1276); Mediterranean expansion (1276-1336); Peter the Ceremonious and his sons (1336-1410); The Trastámaras (1412-1479); Prosperity and crisis in the later middle ages; Epilogue; Note on the translation of proper names; Glossary; Geneological tables; Bibliographical notes; Index