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Santa María de Uncastillo (1135–55), built during a crucial period of repopulation following the Christian conquest of northern Iberia, reveals the impacts of migration and social change upon the visual arts. Long the site of an impregnable fortress on the frontier between Chris…

The conflict commonly referred to as the War of the Sicilian Vespers, which flared up intermittently between the Crown of Aragon and the Angevin Empire from its start in 1282 to its final termination in 1302, was truly unique for the time, in that every major battle of consequen…

Pere III of Catalonia (1319-1387) began his reign in 1336. As count-king, he reigned over Aragon, Catalonia, and Valencia. The Chronicle of Pere III of Catalonia covers the years 1319-1369, fifty years of a nearly seventy year life. Pere wrote this chronicle in collaboration wit…

The thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries mark a turning point in the history of relations between Muslims, Christians and Jews living in the Iberian peninsula and its environs. As the so-called wars of reconquista brought practically all of Muslim al-Andalus under the rule …