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

THE WESTERN MEDITERRA.NEAN KINGDOMS 1200-1500 hinterland. But the clearest sign that the battle was far from won by Rene was the ...

ALFONSO THE MAGNANIMOUS AND THE FALL OF ANJOU valley. Yet, even though his attention focused in the next few years on the strugg ...

THE WESTERN MEDITERRA.NEAN KINGDOMS 1200-l!'iOO The later career of Rene and Jean reveals a continuing restlessness. Rene marrie ...

ALFONSO THE MAGNANIMOUS AND THE FALL OF ANJOU emphasis on chivalric duty, on feats of arms and public dis- play as well as on ch ...

THE WESTERN MEDITERR~NEAN KINGDOMS I ~00-1500 At the end of his life (he died in 1484, the year after Louis XI), Rene's politica ...

ALFONSO THE MAGNANIMOUS AND THE FALL OF ANJOU had only attracted Martin among his predecessors: Corsica. Rockier and more impene ...

THE vv'ESTERN MEDITERRANEAN KINGDOMS 1200-1500 Louis had an ambitious successor in Rene, duke of Anjou, Provence and Lorraine, w ...

ALFONSO THE MAGNANIMOUS AND THE FALL OF ANJOU fortune, which Alfonso was ruthless in raising by heavy taxa- tion, the sale of of ...

TilE v\'ESTERN MEDITERR.\NEAI'\ Klt-;CDOMS 1:200-1!100 sculptures in neo-classical style, such as the beautiful tri- umphal arch ...

ALFONSO THE MAGNANIMOUS AND THE FALL OF ANJOU Taking Milan and Venice as allies, he focused his attention on Florence, partly in ...

THE WESTER!\ MEDITERRA.:--JEA!\ KINGDOMS 1200-1500 become) such as Francesco Sforza and the king of Naples could appeal in attem ...

ALFONSO THE MAGNANIMOLIS AND THE FALL OF ANJOU Angevin policies, in the days of Charles I and his immediate successors, and the ...

THE V\'ESTERN MEDITERRAI\'E.\N KINGDOMS 1200-1500 the Lieutenant-General dealt with more local Spanish issues. Representatives o ...

ALFONSO THE MAGNANIMOUS AND THE FALL OF ANJOU crown.^33 Some of these are features that are arguably visible much earlier; in 14 ...

THE V\'ESTERN MEDITERRANEAN KINGDOMS 1200-1500 house of Anjou was seen as compliant towards the interest of the greater barons. ...

ALFONSO THE MAGNA!\:IMOUS AND THE FALL OF ANJOU formulating his attitude is not to deny him more than a touch of humanity in dea ...

THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAJ'\ Kll'\GDOMS 1200-1500 for the city's artisans and shopkeepers. Busca leaders sought to make Barcelona ...

ALFONSO THE MAGNAJ'\IMOUS AND THE FALL OF ANJOU also obvious that the picture is one of light and shade, the lightest part by fa ...

THE \'I>'ESTERI'\ MEDITERR,\NEAI'\ KINGDOMS 1~00-1.~00 generated by plague from 1347 onwards. Thus Minorca, long a pastoral b ...

ALFONSO THE MAGNANIMOUS AND THE FALL OF ANJOU quality of the gold currency of Valencia in the mid-fifteenth century provides a c ...