War, Government, and Society in the Medieval Crown of Aragon

Donald J. Kagay is Associate Professor of History at Albany State University Georgia, USA.

Contents: Preface; The national defense clause: Princeps namque and the emergence of the Catalan state; Army mobilization, royal administration and the realm in the 13th-century Crown of Aragon; A shattered circle: eastern Spanish urban fortifications and their repair during the war of the Two Pedros; Rule and mis-rule in medieval Iberia; The King's right must be preferred to the Lord's: sovereignty and suzerainty in the treatises of Pere Albert; Rebellion on trial: the Aragonese Unión and its uneasy connection to royal law, 1265-1301; Structures of baronial dissent and revolt under Jaime I of Aragon-Catalonia (1213-76); The 'treasons' of Bernat de Cabrera: government, law, and the individual in the late medieval crown of Aragon; Pere Albert: Barcelona canon, royal advocate, feudal theorist; Law and memory: the many aspects of the legal inquisition in the medieval crown of Aragon; Poetry in the dock: the court culture of Joan I on Trial (1396-98); The line between memoir and history: James I and the Llibre dels Feyts; The essential enemy: the image of the Muslim as adversary and vassal in the law and literature of the medieval crown of Aragon; Index.