“Reading Archival Latin”
Mediterranean Studies Summer Skills Seminar
20—23 May 2024 • Remote

Resources - History (Crown of Aragon to 1350)

General History/ Reference - Crown of Aragon
• Primary Sources
[for documents at the ACA, see Archive of the Crown of Aragon]
• Chazan, Robert, Barcelona and Beyond: The Disputation of 1263 and Its Aftermath (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992).
• Colón, Germá, and Arcadi Garcia i Sanz, Furs de Valéncia 9 vols. (Barcelona: Barcino, 1970).
• Goodenough (Lady). The Chronicle of Muntaner. 2 vols. London: Hakluyt Society, 1920. [repr. 2000]
• Fonts històriques Valencianes Valencia: University of Valencia. [Series of edited documents from royal and municipal archives]
• Hillgarth, Mary, and J. N. Hillgarth. Chronicle of Pere III. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1980.
• Kagay, Donald J., The Usatges of Barcelona : The Fundamental Law of Catalonia (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania , 1994)
•  Rovira i Armengol, Josep, Usatges De Barcelona (Barcelona: Barcino, 1985)
•  Smith, Damian J. The Book of Deeds of James I of Aragon: A Translation of the Medieval Catalan Llibre dels fets. Burlington: Ashgate, 2003.
•  Soldevila, Ferran, Jordi Bruguera, and Maria Teresa Ferrer i Mallol, eds. Llibre dels feits del rei en Jaume. Barcelona: Institut d’Estudis Catalans, 2007.
• ––, eds. Crònica de Bernat Desclot. Barcelona: Institut d’Estudis Catalans, 2008.
• ––, eds. Crònica de Pere III El Cerimoniós. Barcelona: Institut d’Estudis Catlans, 2014.
• ––, eds. Crònica de Ramon Muntaner. Barcelona: Institut d’estudis catalans, 2011.
• Soldevila, Ferran, ed. Les quatre grans cròniques. Barcelona: Editorial Selecta, 1971 [this early edition has excellent annotations]
• Textos Medievales Anubar: Valencia. [series of edited literary and archival sources for medieval Spain]
• Tilander, Gunnar, Los fueros de Aragón 3 Vols. (Lund: C. W. K. Gleerup, 1937).
• General
• Abulafia, David. “The rise of Aragon-Catalonia,” in the New Cambridge Medieval History V
• ——. The Western Mediterranean Kingdoms, 1200-1500: The Struggle for Dominion. New York: Longman, 1997. 
• Belenguer, Ernest, and Felipe V. Garín. Corona de Aragón: siglos XII-XVIII. València: Generalitat Valenciana, 2006. 
• Bensch, Stephen P. Barcelona and Its Rulers, 1096-1291. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
• Bisson, Thomas N. The Medieval Crown of Aragon. A Short History. Oxford: Clarendon, 1986. [III: James the Conqueror (1213—1276); IV: Mediterranean Expansion (1276-1336)]
• Forey, Alan. “The Crown of Aragon,” in the New Cambridge Medieval History VI
• Hillgarth, J. N. The Spanish Kingdoms, 1250-1516. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976.
• Hinojosa Montalvo, José. Jaime II y el esplendor de la Corona de Aragón. Donostia: Nerea, 2006. 
• Jover Zamora, et al., eds. Historia de España de Menéndez Pidal. 42 vols. Madrid: Espasa Calpe, 1935–2004. Vols.: X–XV.
• O’Callaghan, Joseph F. History of Medieval Spain. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1975.
• Sabaté, Flocel. The Crown of Aragon : A Singular Mediterranean Empire. Leiden: Brill, 2017. 
• Sesma Muñoz, Angel. La Corona de Aragón : Una introducción crítica. Zaragoza: Caja de Ahorros de la Inmaculada de Aragón, 2000.
• Ubieto Arteta, Antonio. La creación de la Corona de Aragón. Valencia: Anúbar, 1977. 
• Ubieto Arteta, Antonio., Historia de Aragón. Orígenes de Aragón (Zaragoza: Anubar, 1989).
• Zurita, Jerónimo, and Angel Canellas López. Anales de la Corona de Aragón. 4 vols. Zaragoza: Institución Fernando el Católico, 1967. [16th century history of the Crown of Aragon]
• Government
• Barton, Thomas W. Victory’s Shadow: Conquest and Governance in Medieval Catalonia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019.
• Burns, Robert I. The Crusader Kingdom of Valencia: Reconstruction of a Thirteenth Century Frontier. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967.
• Kosto, Adam. Making Agreements in Medieval Catalonia. Power, Order and the Written Word, 1000-1200. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
• Cawsey, Suzanne F. Kingship and Propaganda: Royal Eloquence and the Crown of Aragon c. 1200-1450. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002. 
• Freedman, Paul. The Diocese of Vic: Tradition and Regeneration in Medieval Catalonia. Rutgers University Press, 1983.
• Jenkins, Ernest E. The Mediterranean World of Alfonso II and Peter II of Aragon (1162-1213). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
• Tatjer Prat, María Teresa. La Audiencia Real en la Corona de Aragón orígenes y primera etapa de su actuación (s. XIII y XIV). [Barcelona: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2009.
• Silvestri, Alessandro, “Archives of the Mediterranean: Governance and Record-Keeping in the Crown of Aragon in the Long Fifteenth Century,” European History Quarterly, 46 (2016): 435-457.
• Tello Hernández, Esther, “La trayectoria de los oficiales de la hacienda regia en la Corona de Aragón: El maestre racional, el tesorero y el escribano de ración durante el siglo XIV,” in Francisco de Paula Cañas Galvez, ed., La corona y sus servidores. Individualidades, instituciones y estructuras curiales en los reinos hispánicos durante la Baja Edad Media (c.a. 1340-1516) (Seville: Universidad de Sevilla, 2021): pp. 499—526.
• Torró Abad, Josep. El naixement d’una colònia. Dominació i resisténcia a la frontera valenciana (1238–1276). Valéncia: Universitat de Valéncia, 1999.
• Society
• Assis, Yom Tov. The Golden Age of Aragonese Jewry: Community and Society in the Crown of Aragon, 1213-1327. London;: Vallentine Mitchell, 1997.
• ——. “Jaime II y los Judíos en la Corona de Aragón.” Anales de la Universidad de Alicante. Historia medieval11 (1996): 331–42.
• Baer, Yitzhak. Historia de los Judíos en la Corona de Aragón, Madrid: Departamento de Cultura y Educación, 1985. 
• Barton, Thomas W., Contested Treasure: Jews and Authority in the Crown of Aragon (Pitttsburgh: Penn State, 2016).
• ——. Victory’s Shadow: Conquest and Governance in Medieval Catalonia (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019).
• Boswell, John. The Royal Treasure. Muslim Communities Under the Crown of Aragon in the Fourteenth Century. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977.
• Burns, Robert I. Islam Under the Crusaders: Colonial Survival in the Thirteenth Century Kingdom of Valencia. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973. [Burns has a whole series of books on the Kingdom of Valencia in the sXIII] 
• Catlos, Brian A. The Victors and the Vanquished: Christians and Muslims of Catalonia and Aragon, 1050-1300. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 
• Ferrer i Mallol, Maria Teresa. Els sarraïns de la Corona Catalano-aragonesa en el segle XIV. Barcelona: CSIC, 1985 [Ferrer Mallol was one of the most prolific historians of her generation and has numerous works on various aspects of the Crown of Aragon]
• Hames, Harvey J., The Art of Conversion : Christianity and Kabbalah in the Thirteenth Century (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2000).
• Kelleher, Marie A. The Measure of Woman: Law and Female Identity in the Crown of Aragon. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010.
• Klein, Elka. Jews, Christian Society, & Royal Power in Medieval Barcelona. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006.
• Lourie, Elena. Crusade and Colonisation: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Medieval Aragon. Aldershot: Variorum: 1990. 
• Meyerson, Mark D. Jews in an Iberian Frontier Kingdom: Society, Economy, and Politics in Morvedre, 1248-1391. Leiden: Brill, 2004.
• Nirenberg, David. Communities of Violence. Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.
• Romano, Davíd. “Judíos bailes a Zaragoza (1276–1279),” In La ciudad de Zaragoza en la Corona de Aragón. Comunicaciones. X Congreso de Historia de la Corona de Aragón, 507–19. Zaragoza: Institución “Fernando el Católico”, 1977.
• ——. “Judíos escribanos y turjamanes de árabe en la Corona de Aragón (reinados de Jaime I a Jaime II).” Sefarad 38 (1978): 71–105.
• Ryan, Michael A. A Kingdom of Stargazers: Astrology and Authority in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011.
• Tartakoff, Paola. Between Christian and Jew: Conversion and Inquisition in the Crown of Aragon, 1250-1391. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.
• Vose, Robin J. E. Dominicans, Muslims, and Jews in the Medieval Crown of Aragon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

• Resources: Archive of the Crown of Aragon 
• Resources: Research Tools
• Resources: Edited Documents
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