Carolingian Catalonia
Subtitle: Politics, Culture, and Identity in an Imperial Province, 778-987
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Feb 28, 2019
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781108474641
Description: "A pedestrian strolling along Carrer Trafalgar, window shopping in Barcelona's Barri Gotic, may, if alert, catch a glimpse of a street sign indicating the Carrer Lluis el Piados - Louis the Pious Street. The street sign informs the reader that Louis was king of Aquitaine and conqueror of Barcelona in 804 (the date is now known to be 801). His street is very short, only a couple of blocks, in a city where more important avenues recall Catalonia's heroes of the high and late Middle Ages, when Catalonia was the centre of the Crown of Aragon's wealth and power in the western Mediterranean, or revolutionaries of the nineteenth century"--
Notes: Source title: Carolingian Catalonia: Politics, Culture, and Identity in an Imperial Province, 778-987 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series)