... verified that secular autobiography emerged slowly within the context of spiritual autobiography, just as autobiography itself developed from confessional practice. Ramon Muntaner's account may be classified as “relational autobiography,” since his life story was primarily articulated through the prism...

...This chapter describes the chronicle of Ramon Muntaner (Crònica), which focused on the history of the Crown of Aragon from the conception of King James I (1207) to the coronation of King Alfonse the Benign in Zaragoza (1328). The interest in this chronicle was primarily due...

... and to historicize the recent past. The Gesta comitum Barcinonensium's characters reflected historical conditions, despite their fictional elements. The chivalric tone of the Llibre dels Fets was a perfect catalyst for the prosification of earlier epic poems. Ramon Muntaner...

... to the late fourteenth century—including the Latin Gesta comitum Barcinonensium and four texts in medieval Catalan: James I's Llibre dels fets, the Crònica of Bernat Desclot, the Crònica of Ramon Muntaner, and the Crònica...