@Book{898498414, editor="Sabat{\'e}, Flocel", title="crown of Aragon: a singular Mediterranean empire", series="Brill's companions to European history volume 12", year="2017", publisher="Brill", address="Leiden", keywords="Aragon (Spain); History; Kings and rulers", abstract="The crown of Aragon in itself and overseas: a singular Mediterranean empire / Flocel Sabate -- The northeast Iberian Peninsula and its Muslim rulers (8th-12th century) / Jesus Brufal -- Aragon and the Catalan counties before the union / Adam J. Kosto -- An intense but stymied Occitan Campaign / Pere Benito -- The culture (9th-12th centuries): clerics and troubadours / Isabel Grifoll -- The Romanesque in the mountains and on the border / Xavier Barral-i-Altet -- Territory, power and institutions in the crown of Aragon / Flocel Sabate -- The beginnings of urban manufacturing and long distance trade / Antoni Riera -- Crises and changes in the late Middle Ages / Antoni Riera -- The commercial influence of the crown of Aragon in the eastern Mediterranean (13th-15th centuries) / Damien Coulon -- The people: labourers and rulers in an expanding society / Maria Bonet -- Islands and the control of the Mediterranean space / Alessandra Cioppi and Sebastiana Nocco -- Language: from the countryside to the royal court / Lola Badia and Isabel Grifoll -- Writers at the end of Middle Ages / Lola Badia -- A Gothic Mediterranean Catalan art / Xavier Barral-i-Altet -- Identities in contact in the Mediterranean / Flocel Sabate -- The Medieval legacy: constitutionalism versus absolutism: the case of Catalonia / Antoni Simon -- The Medieval heritage: islands and territories with a specific identity? / Luciano Gallinari and Esther Marti Sentanes -- The Catalans and the Mediterranean / David Abulafia", note="edited by Flocel Sabat{\'e} ; linguistic correction by Chris Boswell", note="Includes bibliographical references and index", isbn="9789004349612", doi="10.1163/9789004349612", url="http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/books/9789004349612", url="https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004349612", language="English" }