Rulers and Ruled in Frontier Catalonia, 880-1010: Pathways of Power

Skilful use of original sources teases out the networks of power and association in what was to become Catalonia.

A frontier both between Christianity and Islam and between Francia and the Iberian Peninsula, the region that later became Catalonia was at the heart of the demographic and cultural expansion of the Carolingian empire between theninth and twelfth centuries. Through the use of charters to generate new ways of looking at medieval history, the author traces previously hidden social ...