Victory's Shadow: Conquest and Governance in Medieval Catalonia

ISBN-13: 9781501736162 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 432 str.

Thomas W. Barton

Opis

At the beginning of the eleventh century, Catalonia was a patchwork of counties, viscounties, and lordships that bordered Islamic al-Andalus to the south. Over the next two centuries, the region underwent a dramatic transformation. The counts of Barcelona secured title to the neighboring kingdom of Aragon through marriage and this newly...