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In the period 778–814 the Frankish empire of the Carolingians (Charlemagne and his successors) expanded its political reach south of the Pyrenees into Spain. This study seeks to determine the impact of Frankish rule on the area, now known as Catalonia, especially since it posses…

The social and political history of Catalonia has long been dominated by debates about language, nation and identity and forty years of linguistic and cultural repression have impacted the sociocultural landscape of the region. The new millennium and new nationalist/gendered ide…

La presente tesis tiene por objeto el estudio de la formación del principado de Cataluña en sus aspectos jurídico-públicos. La integración política catalana es un fenómeno histórico con un marcado acento jurídico; va a ser a través de unos medios esencialmente jurídicos como va …

This thesis will demonstrate that the literature of Wales and Catalonia, two small stateless nations that are dominated by larger states with a different majority culture (the United Kingdom and Spain), can be read as resistance literature. However, crucially, it will focus on a…

“Woven World: The Creation Tapestry of Girona” interrogates the function and meaning of the medieval map. Works of art like the eleventh-century Creation Tapestry of Girona, Spain redefine our modern definition of the word “map.” Medieval artists, like the exegetes of the time, …

The Catalonians represent a community whose inhabitants, in large part, have the sentiment that they are a nation and who have struggled historically for the right to maintain their language and exercise their political autonomy within the Spanish state. My research analyzes, de…