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Book Synopsis1. Centres and Peripheries in the Making of Medieval Iberia: An Introduction Jaume Marcé Sánchez and Laura Miquel Milian.- Part I Diffusion and Reception of Culture, Art, and Forms of Writing.- 2. Implementation and Diffusion of Rites. The Deposition of the Relics According to the Catalano-Narbonese Ordo of Consecration Marianne Blanchard.- 3. Writing on the Edges. Exposure and Discretion in Medieval Epigraphic Practices Vincent Debiais.- 4. Centre-Periphery Relations. The Role of the Consecrationes in the Construction of Medieval Dioceses Irene Pereira García.- Part II Relations of Power: Authority, Violence, and Territorial Control.- 5. The Quest for Central Power Symbols in Post-Roman Kingdoms: Gundovald and Paulus, Two Case Studies of Illegitimate Proclamations Oriol Dinarès Cabrerizo.- 6. Olèrdola and Vilafranca. The Transfer of Power Centres and its Implications in the Settlement Network Marçal Díaz-Ros.- 7. Between Centers and Peripheries: Corsopirates in the Medieval Western Mediterranean (Fourteenth-Fifteenth Centuries) Laure-Hélène Gouffran.- Part III Economic Centres and Peripheries: Managing Resources, Techniques, and Commercial Networks.- 8. From the Core to the Margins, and Back to the Core: The Lordship of Castellbisbal in the Construction of a Dynastic Identity (Fifteenth-Sixteenth Centuries) Pol Bridgewater Mateu.- 9. Reconsidering Monastic Estates: Centres, Peripheries, and Territorial Management in Early Medieval Pallars and Ribagorça (Ninth-Tenth Centuries) Xavier Costa Badia.- 10. Territorial Control from a Female Monastic Centre Using Hydraulic Technology: Las Huelgas of Burgos and San Vicente el Real of Segovia Ester Penas González.- 11. Between Provence and Catalonia: Centres and Peripheries in the Developing and Diffusion of Fishing Gear in the Medieval and Early Modern Period Antoni Ginot-Julià.