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

THE WESTERN MFDITFRR\NEAt\ Klt\GDOMS I ~00-1 !'>00 The sharing of power among potential rivals also involved the exclusion of ...

SICILY AND SOUTHERN ITALY IN AN AGE OF DISORDER principality that made up the Corona d'Arag6, and threatened yet again to open u ...

THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN KINCDOl\IS 1200-1!100 emerging which were a potential source of strength to a revived monarchy. But it ...

SICILY AND SOUTHERN ITALY IN AN AGE OF DISORDER possible beneficiaries, not least Joanna, who by all accounts detested her overb ...

THE \h'ESTERN MEDITERRANEAi\ KINGDOMS 1200-1.~00 papal diplomacy prevented a Genoese-Hungarian military alliance being created. ...

SICILY AND SOUTHERN ITALY IN AN AGE OF DISORDER There was another victor: Nicola Acciaiuoli, the cultured Florentine businessman ...

THE WESTER}.; MEDITERRAI\EAN KINGDOMS 1200-1500 a dangerous outside party, Peter IV of Aragon, who saw himself as a possible hei ...

SICILY AND SOUTHERN ITALY IN AN AGE OF DISORDER Neapolitans still had interests on the ground, and a positive result of the war ...

THE WESTERN YIEDITERRAI\EAN KINGDOMS 1200-1500 in setting Languedoc in order, Louis was, like his Valois ancestor, something of ...

SICILY Al\D SOUTHERN ITALY IN AN AGE OF DISORDER not long after. In Naples as in Hungary, it had been a short reign; and, though ...

THE \\'ESTERN MEDITERR-\NEAN KINGDOMS 1200-1500 That, indeed, was the sum total of the political changes that took place in four ...

SICILY AND SOUTHERN ITALY IN AN AGE OF DISORDER fate. Rival houses of Anjou, that of Anjou-Durazzo and that of Anjou-Provence (s ...

Chapter 8 THE END OF THE HOUSE OF BARCELONA PETER THE CEREMONIOUS, 1336-87 The reign of Peter IV, 'the Ceremonious', has special ...

THE END OF THE HOUSE OF BARCELONA heavily on the founders of the Aragonese commonwealth in the thirteenth and early fourteenth c ...

THE \VESTER!\ MEDITERRANEAI\ Kli\GDOMS 1200-1500 recognised as gifts of God. 'Because of our powerlessness, fragility and little ...

THE END OF THE HOUSE OF BARCELONA that permeated the policies of Peter the Ceremonious, in the face of challenges from his half- ...

THE WESTERN MEDITERRAJ\'EAN KINGD0\1S 1200-IFIOO behalf his devout uncle, the Regent Philip, for several years governed the Majo ...

THE END OF THE HOUSE OF BARCELONA of space in his autobiography; but he needed to present himself as both a conquering hero in t ...

THE \\'ESTERN MEDITERR-\NE:\N KINGDOMS 1200-l'lOO leaving a small son (James IV) who was never able to claim his inheritance tho ...

THE END OF THE HOUSE OF BARCELONA contractual interpretation of the relationship between the king and his greater subjects. Cata ...