War, Government, and Society in the Medieval Crown of Aragon

The focus of this collection of articles by Donald J. Kagay is the effect of the expansion of royal government on the societies of the medieval Crown of Aragon. He shows how the extensive episodes of warfare during the 13th and 14th centuries served as a catalyst for the extension of the king''s law and government across the varied topography and political landscape of eastern Spain. In the long c...