De Gallípoli a Céfiso: desarrollo militar, político e ideológico de la compañía catalana (1303-1312)

Identifier:  TDX:3100

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX3100

Authors:  Cardinali, Alessio

Abstract:
The catalan company often is known like a host of mercenaries that determined the fate of the byzantine empire and the entrance of the aragonese crown in the easter stage. The studies related with this topic are numerous and eve so, it has rarely been entered into the issue related with the internal reality of the host itself. In the present thesis, we're interested to study the phenomenon of the host starting from the chronicles and opposing them to the documental recopilations and other studies. We present a complex reality related with composition of the troop, their expectations, their tèchniques, the financing of the expedition and the internal evolution that provoked the confrontation between aristocracy and the comon people o fthe low soldiers in the company. Chronicles and the ideology of the authors and their world's conception turn out to be fundamental to understand the internal develope of this host and, finally, if te real bond with Aragon and Sicily was as strong as Ramon Muntaner wanted to make his readers belive.