Books on Aragon

Does anyone know where I can find some good books on the Crown of Aragon? I find their history to be quite the interesting one unfortunately cut short by the personal union. I always loved thalassocracies, and I was wondering if there were any good books on it.

Aragon is, oddly enough, one of the only nations where I can sit there and ponder about it constantly without it getting "stale".
 

Kosta

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Does anyone know where I can find some good books on the Crown of Aragon? I find their history to be quite the interesting one unfortunately cut short by the personal union. I always loved thalassocracies, and I was wondering if there were any good books on it.

Aragon is, oddly enough, one of the only nations where I can sit there and ponder about it constantly without it getting "stale".

Oh, I have a book about the history of the Sefardím and Muslims in Iberia and goes pretty in-depth about the relationship of the two groups with the crown. It has a lot of interesting stuff in it, like how Aragon was actually a safe-haven for Iberian Muslims because while the Catholic-Monarchs enacted the Alhambra Decrees, the Decrees weren't enforced in the Crown of Aragon and its constituents.
 
Oh, I have a book about the history of the Sefardím and Muslims in Iberia and goes pretty in-depth about the relationship of the two groups with the crown. It has a lot of interesting stuff in it, like how Aragon was actually a safe-haven for Iberian Muslims because while the Catholic-Monarchs enacted the Alhambra Decrees, the Decrees weren't enforced in the Crown of Aragon and its constituents.

Now I knew that Aragon would occasionally "team up" with Muslims, but I never heard of that... how interesting...

What's the title of the book?
 
Ah, excellent. I was thinking of having two Aragon TLs, one where it's the dominant power in Iberia(killing Fernindad I) and another where it simply survives and maybe colonizes. These books shall greatly help. Thank you.
No problem. Medieval Iberia is my area of expertise such as it is. There are other sources, but they are in Spanish. If you feel adventurous, you can try to find this book. The rest I know (also in Spanish) deal with specific areas like the justice system, charters etc.
 
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Kosta

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Now I knew that Aragon would occasionally "team up" with Muslims, but I never heard of that... how interesting...

What's the title of the book?

It was all for selfish reasons, really; the nobility needed the Muslims because generally they were poor farmers and if the nobles gave them protection and freedom of religion, they would be extremely hard-working and loyal and would work for lower wages than Christian share-croppers to boot. They wanted Muslim protection so much that the nobles forced the Aragonese kings to add a clause in their coronation vows to protect the Muslims. Christian peasants of course hated that they would be undercut time after time again, that they would massacre Muslim populations with any chance they got. On top of that, when Aragon still held onto its possessions in Italy and even the Greatest Country to Ever Grace God's Green Earth in Medieval times, Aragon made a deal with the Mamluks that unless the Mamluks want to see terrible persecutions befall the Muslims of Aragon, they'll be nice to the Eastern Christians of Egypt. Both of them thus had an understanding with each other lest the other start to kill off the faithful.

Oh, Lord, I forgot the name of the book! It's Muslims in Spain 1500-1614 by Professor L.P. Harvey.
 
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