Constructing Catalan Identity Memory, Imagination, and the Medieval
This is a book about how Catalans use their past, real and imagined, in the construction of their present and future. Michael A. Vargas inventories the significant people, signal events, and familiar icons that constitute the Catalan collective memory, fr
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CONSTRUCTING CATALAN IDENTITY Memory, Imagination, and the Medieval
Constructing Catalan Identity
Michael A. Vargas
Constructing Catalan Identity Memory, Imagination, and the Medieval
Michael A. Vargas State University of New York at New Paltz NY, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-76743-7 ISBN 978-3-319-76744-4 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76744-4 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018935397 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors, and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover credit: ZUMA Press, Inc. / Alamy Stock Photo Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer International Publishing AG part of Springer Nature. The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Preface
A series of accidents put me onto the path that resulted in this book. I expected to do one thing and ended up doing another. Sometimes it goes like that. A few details will help you appreciate what happened and why it matters to your reading of the pages that follow. Readers who wish to can comfortably move ahead to the introduction. Others will see that my purpose is to confirm a couple of points about what it means to do the work of exploring the past. This, I think, is the right prefatory material for a book about how Catalans put their past—real and imagined—to work in the present. My first book put me into close contact with Catalan history in a surprisingly personal way. That book was about the breakdown of the Order of Preachers, the religious order called the Dominicans. The leaders of the Order’s Province of Aragon—a territory nearly contiguous with territories controlled by the Prince of Catalonia—produced records of their annual organizational meetings throughout the fourteenth century. These were the subject of my study. Dominic of
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