Brill's Companions to European History 12: The Crown of Aragon. A Singular Mediterranean Empire

The crown of Aragon in itself and overseas: a singular Mediterranean empire / Flocel Sabate -- The northeast Iberian Peninsula and its Muslim rulers (8th-12th century) / Jesus Brufal -- Aragon and the Catalan counties before the union / Adam J. Kosto -- An intense but stymied Occitan Campaign / Pere Benito -- The culture (9th-12th centuries): clerics and troubadours / Isabel Grifoll -- The Romanesque in the mountains and on the border / Xavier Barral-i-Altet -- Territory, power and institutions in the crown of Aragon / Flocel Sabate -- The beginnings of urban manufacturing and long distance trade / Antoni Riera -- Crises and changes in the late Middle Ages / Antoni Riera -- The commercial influence of the crown of Aragon in the eastern Mediterranean (13th-15th centuries) / Damien Coulon -- The people: labourers and rulers in an expanding society / Maria Bonet -- Islands and the control of the Mediterranean space / Alessandra Cioppi and Sebastiana Nocco -- Language: from the countryside to the royal court / Lola Badia and Isabel Grifoll -- Writers at the end of Middle Ages / Lola Badia -- A Gothic Mediterranean Catalan art / Xavier Barral-i-Altet -- Identities in contact in the Mediterranean / Flocel Sabate -- The Medieval legacy: constitutionalism versus absolutism: the case of Catalonia / Antoni Simon -- The Medieval heritage: islands and territories with a specific identity? / Luciano Gallinari and Esther Marti Sentanes -- The Catalans and the Mediterranean / David Abulafia