The Western Mediterranean Kingdoms_ The Struggle for Dominion, 1200-1500

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THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN KINGDOMS 1200- The Struggle for Dominion David Abulafia I~ ~~o~;~;n~~:up LONDON AND NEW YORK ...

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CONTENTS List of Maps X Genealogical Tables Xl Editor's Preface xiii Author's Preface XV PART ONE THIRTEENTH- CENTURY CHALLENGES ...

THE \\'ESTERN MEDITERR-\!\'EAN KINGDOMS 1200-1 !iOO CHAPTER 4 CHAPTER 5 CHAPTER 6 CHAPTER 7 A Mediterranean empire in the making ...

CONTENTS CHAPTER 8 The End of the House of Barcelona 172 Peter the Ceremonious, 1336-87 172 Martin the Elder 182 The Compromise ...

LIST OF MAPS Anjou and Aragon c.l The Italian South c.l The Spanish Kingdoms c.l Italy in X ...

GENEALOGICAL TABLES I The Norman Kings of Sicily and the House of Hohenstaufen 288 II The House of Barcelona III The House of An ...

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EDITOR'S PREFACE David Abulafia's Western Mediterranean Kingdoms is a wide- ranging political narrative of the struggle for cont ...

THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAJ\' KINGDOMS 1200- Wars of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Over the whole of the perio ...

AUTHOR'S PREFACE THE SICILIAN QUESTION: A TWO HUNDRED YEARS' WAR This book is concerned with events in Italy and Spain that domi ...

THE WESTER!\' MEDITERRANL\1\ Kll\'CDOIVIS l:ZOO-FJOO The history of Italy in this period cannot be written with- out paying atte ...

AUTHOR'S PREFACE This book is the product of several years of thinking and writing about the western Mediterranean kingdoms in t ...

THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN KINGDOMS 1200- policies could be adopted; and, again, they filtered down to affect large numbers of th ...

AUTHOR'S PREFACE and Cambridge University Press have kindly not objected to the fact that some material in Chapters 5 and 7 uses ...