The Making of Catalan Linguistic Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Times

1. Introduction
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Part I. The Political Use of the Occitan Language by the Catalan-Aragonese Monarchy

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

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3. The Politics of the Linguistic Discontinuity of Occitan Versus the Continuity of Catalan: The Sermó by Ramon Muntaner
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4. Catalan and Occitan Versus Aragonese: The Poetic Ceremony Following the Coronation of Alfonso the Benign in Muntaner’s Crònica

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Part II. The Interpretation of the Catalan-Occitan Relationship in the Construction of the Spanish Empire

5. The Historical (Dis)Continuity of the Catalan Language and the Linguistic Creation of the Spanish Empire: Ausiàs March in the Early Modern Period
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6. A Unitary Catalan-Occitan Language in the Early Modern Period: The Exaltation of Apitxat Valencian
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7. Conclusion
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Keywords: Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Romance Languages, Medieval Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, History of Medieval Europe