Acknowledgments
Abbreviations, Naming, and Coinage
Introduction
Part I: Interaction and Conquest
1. Parias and Churches
along the Eleventh-Century Frontier
2. Competition along the Frontier
3. Unification and Conquest
Part II: The Implications of Victory
4. Aftermaths:
Constructing Authority within a Conquered Landscape
5. Repositioning within the Lower Ebro Valley
6. Lleida and the County of Urgell
Part III: New Catalonia after Valencia
7. Repercussions
of Further Conquest: Valencia and Tenurial Conditions in
Catalonia
8. The Impact of Conquest and Consolidation on Jurisdiction and
Administration
Appendix
Dynastic Succession of the Counts of Urgell
Dynastic Succession of the Kings of Aragon
Dynastic Succession of the Counts of Barcelona and Count-Kings of
Barcelona/Aragon
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
Thomas W. Barton is Associate Professor of History at the University of San Diego. He is the author of Contested Treasure, which won the Best First Book Prize from the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies and the Association for Jewish Studies' Jordan Schnitzer Prize for the Best Book on Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History and Culture.
Thomas Barton's Victory's Shadow offers a refreshing antidote to
the traditional Reconquista narrative. His rich and careful
account, based on years of archival research offers a compelling
alternative to triumphalist narratives of conquest, by placing much
of the focus instead on what happens after conquest—governance and
consolidation.
*The Medieval Review*
Victory's Shadow offers a significant contribution to scholarship
on the medieval Iberian frontier. A welcome new approach to
frontier history it is the product of meticulous research conducted
over many years in a range of Spanish archives, as well as an
impressive acquaintance with secondary literature and will be
appreciated by scholars interested in premodern Iberian and
Mediterranean history, in the history of Christian-Muslim
relations, in the origins of European expansionism, and in frontier
history.
*Journal of Military History*
"Victory's Shadow shows how the acquisition and integration of New
Catalonia was a lengthy and nonlinear process built on previous
failures, on contests among rulers, on negotiations with
ecclesiastical and secular magnates, and on the fate of territory
further afield. With impressive attention to local political and
economic contexts and changes in policies and possibilities over
two and a half centuries, the book is a marvelously fine-grained
account of the mechanics and logics of conquest."
*Citation from the American Historical Association's 2020 Premio
del Rey Committee*
An extremely impressive work of scholarship that combines
meticulous archival work with a deep knowledge of regional history
and historiography to illuminate the complex mechanics of
administration in this important and fascinating corner of medieval
Latin Christendom.
*SPECULUM*
Victory's Shadow is an important contribution to the field, of
interest also to those studying multicultural frontiers in the
medieval period and beyond.
*AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW*
An important contribution to the field; of interest also to those
studying multicultural frontiers in the medieval period and
beyond.
*American Historical Review*
A thorough and well-documented study of one of medieval Europe's
less well-known frontiers.
*SIXTEENTH CENTURY JOURNAL*
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