If Not, Not: The Oathe of the Aragonese and the Legendary Laws of Sobrarbe 9781400875443

Table of contents :
Contents
Abbreviations
I Introduction
II The Oath in 16th-Century Writings
Giovanni Soranzo
Frangois Hotman and Other French Writers
Antonio Perez
Geronimo Blancas
III False Fueros I-IV
Sobrarbe: the Principality and its Fueros
Sobrarbe and Tudela
Sobrarbe and Navarre
Navarre and the Prince of Viana
The Prince of Viana and Blancas
False Fueros I-IV
IV False Fueros V and VI: the Sagarra Story
The Justice of Aragon
Cerdan's Letra intimada
The Sagarra Story
The Privileges of Union and Their Prohibition
V The Sobrarbe Legend and the False Fueros: 1450-1588
Tomic and Vagad
Molino, Marineus, and Vasaeus
The Nueva Compilacion and Beuter
Zurita, Garibay, and Blancas
VI Royal Oaths in Aragon and the Oath of the Aragonese
Supposed Ceremonial Circumstances of the Oath of the Aragonese
Spanish Analogues to the Oath of the Aragonese
Xavier de Quinto's Explanation of the Oath
Dating the Oath of the Aragonese
The Royal Jurisdictional Oath
The Royal Jurisdictional Oath and the Oath of the Aragonese
VII If Not, Not: Slogan and Legend
Appendices
I: The Four Primary Versions of the Fictitious Oath of the Aragonese
II: Diagram of the "False Fueros of Sobrarbe"
III: Blancas' Sources for the "False Fueros of Sobrarbe"
IV: Antich's Glossa on Daux's Observantiae
V: The Kings of Aragon
Selected and Indexed Bibliography
Index