L'Ibrie Chrtienne et le Maghreb (XIIe - XVe Sicles)

The late Ch.-E. Dufourcq was one of the first to map out the relations between the Christian and Muslim coastlands of the medieval western Mediterranean. These studies reveal the extent of the contribution he made to the subject, and the care and attention with which he handled the scattered documentary sources. There are three main themes to the volume: one group of articles focuses on the political and diplomatic aspects of the relations between Spain (Catalonia in particular) and the Maghreb (the lands of the modern Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia); a second is concerned more with commercial contacts and with a comparison of the economic conditions north and south of the Mediterranean, and with the day-to-day life of the sailors and merchants who formed the link between the two. A third theme, most prominent in the final articles, is the social and economic history of Catalonia itself, a subject to which he returned in the final years of his life. Le regrett Ch.-E. Dufourcq t lun des premiers tablir les grandes lignes des rapports existant entre les pays ctiers chrtiens et musulmans de la Mditeranne occidentale durant le Moyen Age. Ces tudes revelent lntendue de la contribution de lauteur ce sujet, ainsi que le soin et lattention avec lesquels il en a mani le s sources documentaires disperses. On retrouve trois themes principeaux au travers de ce volume : un groupe darticles se concentre sur les aspects politiques et diplomatiques des rapports entre lEspagne, plus particulirement la Catalogne, et le Maghreb; le seconde sattache plus aux contracts commercieaux, comparant les conditions conomiques du Nord et du Sud de la Mditrranee, et la vie quotidienne des marins et des marchands qui formaient le lien entre les deux. Un troisime thme, plus prominent dans les derniers articles, crits par lauteur vers la fin de sa vie, est celui de lhistoire sociale et conomique de la Catalogne elle-