Philip Daileader

True Citizens: Violence, Memory, and Identity in the Medieval Community of Perpignan, 1162-1397 (Medieval Mediterranean) Philip Daileader

An exploration of mediaeval urban citizenship, focusing on Perpignan, a town second in population only to Barcelona in 14th-century Catalonia, yet neglected by modern historians. It describes and analyzes the role that governed membership in the community of citizens, the definition of citizenship, and how the development of divergent memories within the community resulted in a crisis of citizenship. The study uses urban citizenship to shed light on many important historiographical issues, such as Jewish-Christian relations, the place of towns in feudal society, the place of Catalonia in the urban history of medieval England, and the transition from the high to the late Middle Ages.