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

THE WESTERN MEDITERRA-NEAN KINGDOMS 1200-L~OO once, and a further visit by James, now entitled also 'king of Majorca', was neces ...

THE EMERGENCE OF ARAGO!\'-CATALONIA with mainland Muslims in view of an apparent shortage of native manpower.^26 The conquest of ...

THE \VESTER:\ MEDITER~~NEAJ\' KINGDOMS 1200-1'>00 barons, who complained, rather, of raids from Muslim Valen- cia into their ...

THE EMERGENCE OF ARAGON-CATALONIA in Majorca.^28 The result was that James never really managed to impose his authority over all ...

THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAl\' Kll\'GDOMS 1~00-1''00 division of the conquered territories occurred was Valencia City and its ferti ...

THE EMERGENCE OF ARAGON-CATALONL". the fall ofValencia. To a large extent, the monarchy simply perpetuated existing Arab adminis ...

THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN KINGDOMS 1200-1500 Despite occasional tension on the Valencian-Murcian borders between James I and Alf ...

THE EMERGENCE OF ARAGON-CATALONIA James's first major attempt to recover influence in the region was checked after the death of ...

THE \\'ESTER~ MEDITERRAI'\EA'-' KINGDOl\IS 1200-1'100 registered his presence by, for instance, endowing the Cister- cian abbey ...

THE EMERGENCE OF ARAGON-CATALONIA remote viscountcy of Carlat. Arguably this division reflected the wish to create two entities ...

THE WESTER!\ MED!TERRANEAJ\ KIJ\GDOMS 1200-1500 as a hammer of heretics. In his relations with the Jews, there is a similar ambi ...

THE EMERGENCE OF ARAGON-CATALONIA Jews and Christians, combining financial services to the count- king with involvement in comme ...

THE WESTERN MEDITERRA.NEAN KINGDOMS 1200-EiOO assumed automatic rights of priority in the Balearics and in north Mrica. It was a ...

THE EMERGENCE OF ARAGON-CATALONIA regularly leaving Majorca in the depths of winter bound often for north Mrica; the mainstay of ...

THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN Kll\:CDOMS 1200-1500 crown. In the mid-thirteenth century, both the city of Barce- lona and the monarc ...

THE EMERGENCE OF ARAGON-CATALONIA to have become disenchanted with them, calling fewer Corts together towards the end of his rei ...

THE WESTERN MEDITERRANL\N KINCDO~IS l:Z00-1!100 the crown and the Catalan merchants so advantageous to both sides; the consulate ...

Chapter 3 THE RISE AND FALL OF CHARLES OF ANJOU THE SEARCH FOR A CHAMPION As early as 1252 the papacy had explored the possibili ...

THE WESTER!\ MEDITERRANEA!\ KJNCDOMS 1200-1.~00 then, the Sicilian patriot of the nineteenth century, Michele Amari, found ample ...

THE RISE AND FALL OF CHARI"ES OF ANJOU allies there, despite his promise not to hold formal office in the region. Despite the fa ...