Conflict in Fourteenth-Century Iberia: Aragon vs. Castile and the War of the Two Pedros

In Conflict in Fourteenth-Century Iberia, Kagay and Villalon trace the complicated economic military, political, and social background of the relationship of Iberia’s two greatest Christian states of the fourteenth century, Castile and the Crown of Aragon and their rulers, Pedro I (r. 1350-1366/69) and Pere III (r. 1336-1387). Besides chapters discussing the War of the Two Pedros (1356-1366) and the Castilian Civil War (1366-1369), the authors provide extended treatments of the strategical and tactical elements of the conflicts, the parliamentary, diplomatic, and governmental developments that occurred because of the conflicts as well as their social and political aftermaths. This work, along with authors’ earlier book on the battle of Nájera (1367) provides a much-needed review of Iberia’s violent fourteenth century.

Donald J. Kagay, Ph.D. (1981), Fordham University, is retired from Albany State University and is currently an adjunct professor at the university of Dallas. He has edited nine collections of essays, has written four monographs, two of which with Andrew Villalon, and forty-five articles. He is one of the founders of the Texas Medieval Association (remaining its secretary treasurer), De Re Militari, and the Georgia Medievalists Group
L.J. Andrew Villalon, Ph.D. (1984), Yale University is retired retired from the University of Cincinnati as a professor emeritus in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. He is the past president of De Re Militari and the Texas Medieval Association and the recipient of several grants including a Fulbright. Villalon has co-written two monographs, co-edited six collections, and published over a dozen articles in journals and collections.