A clash of cultures: the legal difficulties of Bernat Metge(1396-1398) in a wider social context.

Abstract

No case in the legal annals of the later Middle Ages better exemplifies how a kingdom should and should not be run than does the trial of the Aragonese king Joan I (1387-1396). It was brought into the dock for every shade of political malfeasance known to man. It even involved one of Catalonia’s leading literary figures, Bernat Metge.