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notarial documents, trials and sentences passed by the commission of the ex-
aminadors de greuges.55
However, it is to the collaboration between the National Research Council
and the Direction General of the Book, Archives, and Libraries of the Ministry of
Education, Culture, and Sport of Spain, to which, respectively, belong Cagliari’s
Institute of the History of Mediterranean Europe and the frequently men-
tioned Archive of the Crown of Aragon in Barcelona that we owe the co-edited
publication of the first three volumes of the Proceso contra los Arborea56—a
series of ten volumes of court-case documents preserved in the Real Audiencia
collection in the Barcelona archive that contains copies of “papers-royal” and
“parchments,” provisions and interrogations related to the trial filed by the
sovereigns of the Crown of Aragon, Peter IV and John I, against the giudici of
Arborea: Mariano IV, Hugh III, Eleonora and her husband Brancaleone Doria,
and son Mariano V, for the crime of high treason or “felony.” The documents
pertaining to the Proceso span the years 1353–1393 and are extremely interest-
ing both from a paleographic and historical-institutional perspective; they are
of particularly crucial interest to those wishing to understand the true institu-
tional nature of the military confrontation that opposed the sovereigns of the
Crown of Aragon to the “giudici” of Arborea for over half a century.
55 The Regional Council of Sardinia’s publication initiatives have been an incentive and
above all a model for research projects aimed at publishing the parliamentary acts of
other kingdoms within the Crown of Aragon and is under the scientific direction of
Professors J. Ángel Sesma Muñoz and Carlos Laliena Corbera in the series Acta Curiarum
Regni Aragonum, which even echoes the name of the Sardinian series, and in the 13 vol-
umes of the Cortes Generales organized and celebrated in the ancient kingdom of Aragon
by the sovereigns Peter IV, John I, Martin I, Ferdinand I, Alfonso V, and Ferdinand II
(fourteenth–fifteenth centuries). The Corts Generals of the ancient kingdom of Valencia
have also been the subject of study and publication; see the comprehensive essays by Ma
Rosa Muñoz Pomer, “Havem-vos demanat sosteniment per lo fet de Cerdenya. Eco y rastro
de las Cortes de 1419,” Saitabi 60–61 (2010–2011), pp. 63–80; Ma Rosa Muñoz Pomer, “Le
Corti valenzane medievali e la loro proiezione in Sardegna,” Studi e Ricerche IV (2011),
pp. 9–32; Ma Rosa Muñoz Pomer, Óscar Perea Rodríguez, José Antonio Alabau Calle, and
Mª José Badenas Población y Raquel Madrid Souto, “Valencian Parliamentary Documents
on the Internet,” in Assemblee rappresentative, autonomie territoriali, culture politiche.
Studies Presented to the International Commission for the History of Representative and
Parliamentary Institutions, eds. Annamari Nieddu and Francesco Soddu (Sassari, 2011),
pp. 173–182.
56 Proceso contra los Arborea, vol. I, eds. Joan Armangué i Herrero, Anna Cireddu Aste, and
Caterina Cuboni (Cagliari-Pisa, 2001); Proceso contra los Arborea, vols II–III, ed. Sara
Chirra (Cagliari-Pisa, 2003).