Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations xiii
5. Introduction: A Catalan Monastery and Its Circle of Historians 1
6. Chapter 1 Jaume Caresmar’s Life and Personality 19
7. Chapter 2 Catalonia in the Eighteenth Century 48
8. Chapter 3 The Catalan Language in an “Age of Decadence” 82
9. Chapter 4 Bellpuig de les Avellanes before Caresmar’s Era 105
10. Chapter 5 The Circle of Bellpuig and Other Learned Societies 133
11. Chapter 6 Caresmar’s Works 167
12. Chapter 7 Disamortization, War, and Neglect 203
13. Chapter 8 Wanderings and Destruction of Libraries and Archives 235
14. Conclusion: Medieval Catalonia and the Modern Centuries 262
15. Appendix 1 Surviving Works of Caresmar 273
16. Appendix 2 Works of Caresmar That Were Sent to Madrid but Never Published 289
17. Appendix 3 Discourses by Caresmar Read to the Real Academia de Buenas Letras de Barcelona 291
18. Bibliography 293
19. Index 321