RULERS AND RULED IN FRONTIER CATALONIA, 880

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 the ninth and twelfth centuries. Throu gh the use of charters to generate new ways of looking at medieval history, the author traces previously hidden social networks in t his complex and fragmented society/ webs of association stretched from counts, the Church and even kings to the ambitious and the lo cally po...[Leer más]