"Alfàndach!": la campanya africana de Pere el Gran, vista per Ramon Muntaner

Abstract

This paper considers the chapters of Ramon Muntaners Chronicle devoted to the expedition of King Peter II of Catalonia-Aragon to the Barbary coast, which took place in the summer of 1282, shortly before the start of the War of the Sicilian Vespers and Peters conquest of Sicily. It focuses, therefore, on Muntaners account of the events prior to and the development of the kings campaign in Collo, which is analysed in the light of other 13th and 14th-century sources, in particular the Crònica of Saba Malaspina, whose depiction of the African events presents interesting points of similarity with the Catalan text.