Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The Rise of Catalan as a Royal Language: Bernat Desclot’s Account of the Battle of Castellammare in Response to Bernat d’Auriac’s sirventés

Chapter 4 Catalan and Occitan Versus Aragonese: The Poetic Ceremony Following the Coronation of Alfonso the Benign in Muntaner’s Crònica

Chapter 5 The Historical (Dis)Continuity of the Catalan Language and the Linguistic Creation of the Spanish Empire: Ausiàs March in the Early Modern Period

Chapter 6 A Unitary Catalan-Occitan Language in the Early Modern Period: The Exaltation of Apitxat Valencian

Chapter 7 Conclusion