Towards the end of the 13th century the kingdom of Majorca strengthened its relationships with the Crown of Aragon, once it obtained its renounciation to its claims upon the Balearic islands, through ...the Argelers agreemenet. Together, the two states created by James I the Conqueror’s anachronistic policy towards his own succession, opposed the French advance towards the Pyrenees and the Corberes mountains; they also resisted Ligurian hostility towards them in both basins of the Meditarranean. The alliance, however, entailed costs for James II of Majorca, who was not able to force the Catalan merchants to the payment of the new Balearic Islands tariff. It also entailed costs for his homonymous nephew in Aragon, who had to accept the setting up of an independent monetary system in the Balearic enclave as well as the proliferation of Majorcan consulates in the Maghrib. Joint diplomatic pressure obtained substantial results by 1313, at the Treatise of Poissy. The prohibition to wool and semi-elaborated cloth exports –established by the Capetians in Languedoc– was lifted, while the Valley of Aran was returned and reintegrated into Catalonia.
In the period 1080 to 1150, a strong monastic disagreement developed in Central Europe between the supporters of a feudalized, loose asceticism and the advocates of a much more demanding spirituality ...that was radically different from its secular counterpart. The growth in the western economy from the late tenth century onward had affected the inner workings of abbeys, whose incomes kept increasing.¹ Handling money had become a common practice in the cloisters.Post obitumdonations and almsgiving, the churches under their care, and the attentive management of their estates had become the main sources of prosperity for the great monasteries.
In 1276, the counties of Rosselló and Cerdanya, in accordance with the will and testament of Jaume I seceded from the Catalan-Aragonese Crown to become part of the Kingdom of Majorca. The new ...frontier separated the summer pasture grounds from the winter ones, and gave rise to numerous problems in the system of seasonal migration wich had connected the plains of Catalunya Nova with the higlands of the Pyrenees for more than hundred years. In spite of sporadics incidents, cereals and small livestock continued to flow from Segrià, Segarra and Urgell towards Perpinyà anf Puigcerdà, whereas wool travelled in the opposite direction. These exports enabled the gouvernment and the main Catalan cities to interfere in internal politics of small and disperse Kingdom of Majorca.
In the first half of the 15th Century, the Catalan Diputació del General firmly established its authority and expanded its administrative, fiscal an political power. During these fifty years, the ...Generalitat became the sole authority for the interpretation and application of the «land laws», and an effective check to royal power. The context in which these development occurred was complex, characterized by growing rural conflict, unbalanced growth of urban manufacture, considerable increase in the foreing trade, and notable monetary instability.
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