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

THE WESTERN MEDITERR\NEAN KINGDOMS 1~00-1!100 against him. Meanwhile a papal war was preached against the crusading emperor: his ...

THE ORJGINS OF THE SICILIAN KINGDOM protect those who protected heretics. Yet Frederick himself had passed extremely severe legi ...

THE ·wESTERN MEDITERRA.NEAN KINGDOMS 1200-1500 sent, arguably with papal approval, to murder him. Yet he also showed a surprisin ...

THE ORIGINS OF THE SICILIAN KINGDOM echoes of the Norman past as a result of the emperor's fascination with ornithology, express ...

THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN KINGDOl\IS 1200-1">00 still stood strong; his bastard brother Enzo, titular King of Sardinia, was a ...

THE ORIGINS OF THE SICILIAN KINGDOM neither Edmund nor Conradin but Manfred. The assumption that it was the barons -with perhaps ...

THE WESTERN MEDITERRA.NEA="i KINGDOMS 1200-1">00 CONCLUSION The reigns of Frederick II and of Manfred proved clearly that the ...

THE ORIGINS OF THE SICILIAN KINGDOM vassal, and if that vassal at times seemed poised to domin- ate all of Italy, the time had s ...

Chapter 2 THE EMERGENCE OF ARAGON-CATALONIA THE COMING TOGETHER OF ARAGON AND CATALONIA 'The rise of Aragon' serves as a label b ...

THE EMERGENCE OF ARAGON-CATALONIA been achieved against the odds, and this was one way of expressing that view.' 'Aragon' is rea ...

THE V\'ESTERN MEDITERRANEAN Kl:\GOOMS 1200-1500 southern flank, such as Lleida (Lerida), though it possessed a significant Jewis ...

THE EMERGENCE OF ARAGON-CATALONIA county under strong Frankish influence grew to include Jaca, which took off as a major ecclesi ...

THE WESTERN MEDITERR~t\EA.N KJNCDOMS 1200-l:JOO condition.' In the same period the Catalans made striking advances, taking Tarra ...

THE EMERGENCE OF ARAGON-CATALONIA Alfonso VII of Castile would lay claim to his lands, and he knew that by placing his realm in ...

THE WESTER\\ MEDITERRANE:\.1\ Kll\GDOMS 1:200-1 •,oo or 'cattle tax', which was in fact a general levy, aroused con- stant oppos ...

THE EMERGENCE OF ARAGON-CATALONIA Provence-even under its cadet dynasty of Catalan-Aragonese counts-maintained close, though at ...

THE V\'ESTERN MEDITERRAt\EAN KINGDOMS 1200-1!100 posed the greatest problem. In 1209, the arrival of northern armies under Simon ...

THE EMERGENCE OF ARAGON-CATALONIA application of the count's law (the Usatges de Barcelona), and over the ruler's rights of taxa ...

THE vVESTERN MEDITERRA'JEAN KINGDOMS 1200-1 'iOO would have been glad to assert a right to James's crown; yet a semblance of uni ...

THE EMERGENCE OF ARAGON-CATALONIA experience there suggested that a successful campaign against the Moors could re-establish roy ...