The Catalan Expedition to the East
Subtitle: from the `Chronicle' of Ramon Muntaner (Textos B) (Textos B)
Contributors: N. D. Hillgarth (Introduction); Robert D. Hughes (Translator)
Publisher: Tamesis Books
Published: June 15, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781855661318
Subjects: European history: c 500 to c 1500; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Spanish: Adult Nonfiction; Spain; European - Spanish & Portuguese; Literary Criticism & Collections / Spanish & Portuguese; Literature: History & Criticism; Andronicus II Palaeologus, 1282-1328; Byzantine Empire; Catalan Grand Company; Flor, Roger de,; History; d. 1305
Description: "Before its definitive fall into Turkish hands, the Byzantine Empire was the target of adventurers of many nations. Outstanding among these groups was the Almogaver army led by Roger of Flor, composed of mercenaries hardened in the war between the Catalan and Angevin dynasties for domination of Sicily. The Catalan presence in Constantinople aroused suspicion among the Greek nobility who assassinated Roger and tried to exterminate his men. The devastating reaction of those who escaped the slaughter led to Catalan control of broad swathes of the Empire, including Athens. Ramon Muntaner, one of the ringleaders of the expedition, recounted the adventures of the Almogaver army in the eastern Mediterranean in his Chronicle."--Jacket.