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J. Zurita. Anales de la Corona de Aragón. Zaragoza, 1610.
_____. Indices Rerum ab Aragoniae Regibus Gestarum. Zaragoza, 1576.
(The work of a great historian and indispensable to any student of early Spanish history.)
J. Blancas. Aragonensium Rerum Commentarii. Zaragoza, 1588.
Blasco de Lanuza. Historias eclesiásticas y seculares de Aragon. Zaragoza, 1622.
P. de Abarca. Los Reyes de Aragón en Anales Históricos. Madrid, 1682-4.
A. de Bofarull. Historia General de Cataluña. Barcelona, 1876-8.
V. de Lafuente. Estudios críticos sobre la historia y el derecho de Aragón. Madrid, 1884-6
Schmidt. Geschichte Aragoniens im Mittelalter. Leipzig, 1828.
Bofarull y Mascaro. Condes de Barcelona. Barcelona, 1836.
V. Balaguer. Historia de Cataluña y de la Corona de Aragón. Barcelona, 1861.
_____. Colección de Documentos para el estudio de la historia de Aragón. Ibarra y Rodriguez. Zaragoza, 1904-1920.
R. Altamira y Crevea. Historia de España. Barcelona, 1909.
Luis Parral y Cristóbal. Aragón y sus Fueros. Madrid, 1907.
F. Valls-Taberner i Ferran Soldevila. Historia de Catalunya. Barcelona, 1922-3.
(Contains useful bibliographies.)
E.L. Miron. The Queens of Aragón. London, 1913.
A.G. Soler. La Edad Media en la Corona de Aragón. Barcelona, 1930.
(Colección Labor; contains a bibliography.)
R.B. Merriman. The Rise of the Spanish Empire. New York and London, 1918.
(Contains excellent annotated bibliography.)
CHAPTER I [287]
J.B. Bury. A History of the Later Roman Empire. London, 1889.
J. Botet y Siso. Noticia histórica y arqueológica de la antigua ciudad de Emporium. Madrid, 1879.
A.K. Ziegler. Church and State in Visigothic Spain. Washington, 1931.
Historia General de España: Los Pueblos Germánicos. Madrid, 1890.
T. Hodgkin. Visigothic Spain, English Historical Review, ii, p. 209.
Martin de Bracara. De Correctione Rusticorum, ed. C.P. Caspari. Christiania, 1883 (on pagan beliefs in Christian Spain).
E. de Saavedra. Estudio sobre la Invasión de los Arabes en España. Madrid, 1892.
CHAPTER II
E. Lévi-Provençal. L'Espagne Musulmane au Xème Siècle. Paris, 1932.
R. Dozy. Spanish Islam. London, 1913.
P. Bofarull. Los Condes de Barcelona vindicados. Barcelona, 1836.
(William, Count of Toulouse, was a leading figure in events from the year 790. See Bédier, Les Légendes Epiques. Paris, 1914, vol. 1, p. 154 ff.)
CHAPTER III
Domingo de la Ripa. Defensa histórica por la antiguedad del Reino de Sobrarbe. Zaragoza, 1675.
Bartolome Martínez y Herrero. Sobrarbe y Aragón: estudios históricos sobre la fundación y progreso de estos reinos. Zaragoza, 1866.
(Provides an account of the legendary history of the provinces.)
P. Boissonade. Du nouveau sur le Chanson de Roland. Paris, 1923.
R. Menéndez Pidal. Cantar de Mio Cid. Madrid, 1908.
_____. La España del Cid. Madrid, 1929.
(Indispensable to any student of the Cid and his times.)
CHAPTER IV [288]
J. Ribera y Tarragó. Orígenes del Justicia Mayor de Aragón. Zaragoza, 1897.
E. Hoepffner. La Chanson de Sainte Foy. Strasbourg, 1926.
J.M.L. Dejeanne. Le Troubadour Marcabru. Toulouse, 1909.
On linguistic questions:
J. Borao. Diccionario de Voces Aragonesas. Zaragoza, 1908.
(Has an introduction upon the dialect which is interesting, if not strictly scientific.)
R. Menéndez Pidal. El Idioma Español en sus primeros Tiempos (Colección de Manuales Hispania). Madrid, 1927.
_____. Orígenes del Español. Madrid, 1926.
W. Meyer-Lübke. Das Katalanische (Sammlung Romanischer Elementar- und Handbücher). Heidelberg. 1925.
CHAPTER V
Forum Turolii, vol. ii of the Colección de Documentos para el estudio de la Historia de Aragon. Introduction and transcription by F. Azuar y Navarro. Zaragoza, 1905.
The following works give useful summaries of the Albigeois Crusade and provide adequate bibliographical references:
H.C. Lea. History of the Inquisition, Book II, chaps. i and ii. (French edition, Paris, 1901, is preferable to the English edition.)<7p>
E. Camau. La Provence a travers les Siècles. Paris, 1924, pp. 121- 239.<7p>
CHAPTER VI
Chronicle of James I of Aragon. Translated by Forster, with introduction and notes by P. de Gayangos. London, 1883.
F. Darwin Swift. The Life and Times of James the First, the Conqueror. Oxford, 1894.
(An excellent work, which gives full bibliographical information.)
Ferran Soldevila. Jaume I. Barcelona, 1926.
For the Troubadours in Aragon, Milá y Fontanals, De los Trovadores en España, Barcelona, 1861, is still an indispensable book. See also R. Menéndez Pidal, Poesía Juglaresca y Juglares. Madrid, 1924.
CHAPTER VII
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O. Cartellieri. Peter von Aragon und die Sizilianischen Vesper. Heidelberg, 1904.
Bernat Desclot. Crónica del Rey en Pere. English translation by F. L. Critchiow, Princeton, 1928.
CHAPTER VIII
Amador de los Ríos. Estudios históricos, políticos y literarios sobre los Judíos de España. Madrid, 1848.
F. Baer. Studien sur Geschichte der Juden im Königreich Aragonien wahrend des 13 und 14 Jahrhunderten. Historische Studien, No. 106. Berlin, 1913.
A. de Capmany. Memorias históricas sobre la Marina, Comercio y Artes de la antigua ciudad de Barcelona. Madrid, 1779-92.
(A mine of information upon Catalan naval and commercial affairs.)
E. de Hinojosa. El Régimen señorial y la cuestión agraria en Cataluña durante la Edad Media. Madrid, 1905.
CHAPTER IX
G. la Mantia. Documenti su le relazioni del re Alfonso III di Aragona con la Sicilia (1285-91). Anuari de l'Institut d'Estudis Catalans, ii. 357-363 (year 1908-9).
J. Jordán de Urries. La Lucha por Sicilia en los años de 1291 a 1302. Boletín de la Real Academia de Buenas Letras de Barcelona, vii. 73-86 (year 1913-14).
_____. La política exterior de Alfonso III de Aragón, ibid., 441-58, 472-85.
L. Kluepfel. Die äussere Politik Alfonso III von Aragonien 1285-91. Berlin, 1912.
H. E. Rohde. Der Kampf um Sicilien, 1291-1302. Berlin, 1913. For the attack upon the Templars, see H. C. Lea, History of the Inquisition, vol. III, p. 238 ff. (French edition, Paris, 1902.)
CHAPTER X
Muntaner's account of the Catalan expedition is edited separately by Lluis Nicolau d'Olwer, L'Expedició dels Catalans a Orient, with introduction, notes and glossary. (Els Nostres Clàssics. Barcelona, 1926.) It has also been translated by Lady Good-enough, Hakluyt Society, London, 1920.
[290] Francisco de Moncada. Expedición de los Catalanes y Aragoneses contra Griegos y Turcos, which is based on the narratives of Muntaner, Desclot and Zurita, has been several times reprinted. The best edition is that by R. Foulché-Delbosc, NewYork and Paris, 1919.
F.G. Schlumberger. Expédition des "Almugavares" ou Routiers catalans en Orient. Paris, 1925.
C. Banus y Comas. Expedición de Catalanes y Aragoneses a Oriente. Madrid, 1929.
A. Rubio y Lluch. Estudios sobre los historiadores griegos acerca de las expediciones catalanes a Oriente. Revista de Ciencias históricas, III, 57-70 (year 1881).
_____. Los Catalanes en Grecia, Madrid, 1927. See also his articles in La Grecia Catalana in Anuari de l'Inst. d'Estudis catalans, IV, 3-58, V, 393-485, VI, 127-200.
For the later history of the Catalan duchies in Greece, see Libro de los Fechos y Conquistas del Principado de la Morea, ed. A. Morel-Fatio. Geneva, 1885.
W. Miller. The Latins in the Levant. London, 1908.
CHAPTER XII
Bernat Dezcoll. Crónica del Rey de Aragon, D. Pedro IV. Ed. A. de Bofarull, Barcelona, 1850.
J. B. Siges. La Muerte de D. Bernardo de Cabrera. Madrid, 1911. Interesting correspondence concerning the combined action against the Genoese in 1351-2 is printed in the Memorial Histórico Español. Madrid, 1851, vol. II, p. 249 ff.
CHAPTER XVI
The chief source for writers on the early years of Ferdinand and Isabella is the Decadas of Alfonso Fernando de Palencia, translated by A. Paz y Mélia as the Crónica de Enrique IV, Madrid, 1904-12. See also, El Cronista Alonso de Palencia; su vida y sus obras, by A. Paz y Mélia, Madrid, 1904. (Hispanic Society of America.)
CHAPTER XVIII
Einführung in die Geschichte der altcatalanischen Literatur, Otto Denk (München, 1893), is still a useful book, though naturally out of date in some respects. Historia de la Literatura Catalana, by Josep Comerma Vilanova (Barcelona, 1923), summarises the main points and contains useful bibliographical information.
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L. Nicolau d'Oliver. Resum de Literatura Catalana. Barcelona, 1928.
_____. Ramon Lull, a Biography, E. Allison Peers (London, 1929), refers the reader to most of the relevant literature upon Lullian questions.
Ramon Llull, Poesies, in Els Nostres Clàssics, Barcelona, 1925, is a handy collection. His Obras Rimadas, by G. Rosselló, Palma, 1859, is now difficult to obtain.
For the chroniclers, a translation of Muntaner by Lady Good-enough is published by the Hakluyt Society. Desciot's chronicle has been translated by F. L. Critchiow (Milford, London, 1928). Dezcoll's chronicle has been edited by Ant. de Bofarull (Barcelona, 1850); on the question of the chronicler's relations with Pedro IV, see Revista Histórica, Barcelona, IV, p. 39, La España Regional, August, 1887, p. 531, and an article by A. Pages in Romania, XVIII, p. 237.
L'antiga Escola poètica de Barcelona, J. Massó Torrents, Barcelona, 1922, gives an excellent account of the history of Catalan lyric poetry and a full bibliography of the relevant literature.
H. Finke. Die Beziehungen der aragonischen Könige zur Literatur, Wissenschaft und Kunst, im XIII Jahrhundert. (Archiv für Kulturgeschichte, viii, 20-42, year 1910.) A Catalan translation by R. Balaguer in Estudis Universitaris Catalans, 1910.
Manuel de Montolius. Manual d'História Crítica de la Literatura Catalana Moderna, Barcelona, 1922 (valuable guide to modern literature).
EPILOGUE
Rovira i Virgili. Història dels Moviments Nacionalistes. Barcelona, 1912-14.Catalunya e la República, Barcelona, 1931 (well documented). The text of the constitution and comments upon it are given in the Bulletin of Spanish Studies, July, 1932, and following issues.
E. Prat de la Riba. Nacionalisme. Barcelona, 1918.
A. Royo Villanova. El Problema Catalan. Barcelona, 1908.
Francisco Curet. La Mancomunidad de Cataluña. Barcelona, 1922.
J.B. Trend. A Picture of Modern Spain. London, 1921.
This work was originally published by Methuan Publishing Ltd. in 1933.
Pagination of the original edition is indicated set off in brackets, as in [19].
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