The Chronicle of Muntaner. Translated from the Catalan by Lady
Goodenough. Vol. II. (Hakluyt Society. For subscribers.)—Lady Goodenough has completed her spirited translation of Muntaner's astonishing chronicle of Arngoneso doings in the Mediterranean in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. Muntaner was himself a stout soldier and held the isle of Jerba, off Tunis, for his king. His chronicle tells of incessant wars in Southern France, Southern Italy, Sardinia, Sicily, the Morena, and Tunis, in which the hardy soldiers and sailors of Aragon and Catalonia and Valencia played a great part. The Moors, of course, profited by the internecine quarrels of the Christians. For the mediaeval history of Spain, which is now attracting much attention, Muntaner is an authority of importance, and this admirable edition, well indexed, deserves high praise.
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