id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt td96k071t44 Belen Vicens Saiz Negotiating Power and Privilege: Written Law, Monarchy, and the Nobility in Medieval Aragon 1904 .txt text/plain 307 8 34 In demonstrating that the Vidal Mayor arose as a product of negotiation between varied political forces, not as an imposition from the crown, this dissertation further deepens our understanding of how law was negotiated at the local level and the fundamental role it played in mediating relations between the crown and the nobility. While the crown aimed at centralizing its power, the nobility struggled to preserve its customary privileges and patrimonial assets against the influx of ideas about unrestricted royal power coming from the universities. cache/td96k071t44.txt txt/td96k071t44.txt