Published in Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Peninsula Cultural History

Keywords: Keywords: Crown of Aragon, Franciscan Political thought, Franciscanism, Middle Ages.

This paper aims to present the importance of Franciscanism in the political thought of the Crown of Aragon. After examining the settlement of the Franciscan Order in the Crown of Aragon and studying the obtainable historiography, a series of models are proposed through cross ideological currents, thinkers, political actors and basic issues of political medieval theory. This would support the idea that in the Crown of Aragon (in a broad sense) some traits can be individualized that can only be understood through Political Franciscanism.