Three peaces of Empúries (1189-1220)

Stephen P. Bensch

doi:10.3989/aem.1996.v26.i2.662

Three peaces of Empúries (1189-1220)

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Stephen P. Bensch Swarthmore College

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https://doi.org/10.3989/aem.1996.v26.i2.662

Abstract

Previous studies on the Peace and Truce of God have emphasized how the countkings employed its statutory provisions to strengten their clerical-royalist programme. With the publication of three previously unknown peaces for the county of Empúries (1189, 1206, 1220) discovered in the Archivo Ducal de Medinaceli, it is now possible to consider with greater precision how a regional lord implemented the peace and its effect on local power. The instituted peace provoked strong reactions from the Catalan barons because it infringed on their traditional immunities and lordship. The counts of Empúries could not confront their leading nobles and their traditional immunities as aggressively as the count-kings.
Compromised by the custom of fiefs and castle rights, the peace became a collaborative effort between the count and powerful nobles. Although the peace statutes did not produce significant administrative innovation in Empúries they did promote territorial identity.

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1996-12-30

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Bensch, S. P. (1996). Three peaces of Empúries (1189-1220). Anuario De Estudios Medievales, 26(2), 583–603. https://doi.org/10.3989/aem.1996.v26.i2.662

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Vol. 26 No. 2 (1996)

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Monographies

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