Muslims Christians, and Jews in the Crusader Kingdom of Valencia - Societies in Symbiosis

Klappentext The crusade which conquered Mediterranean Spain in the thirteenth century resulted in the domination by an alien Christian minority of a dissident Muslim majority and an unusually large Jewish population. Zusammenfassung The crusade which conquered Mediterranean Spain in the thirteenth century resulted in the domination by an alien Christian minority of a dissident Muslim majority and an unusually large Jewish population. Professor Burns' research into previously untapped archival sources reveals the tensions and interaction between the three religious societies after the crusade. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Muslim-Christian conflict and contact: Mudejar methodology; 2. Surrender constitutions: the Islamic communities of Eslida and Alfandech; 3. Christian-Muslim confrontation: the thirteenth-century Cream of conversion; 4. Piracy: Islamic-Christian interface in conquered Valencia; 5. King Jaume's Jews: problem and methodology; 6. Portrait gallery: Jews of crusader Valencia; 7. The language barrier: bilingualism and interchange; 8. Bounding the Moorish frontier: territoriality and prosopography; 9. Real estate and literary echo: the case of Jofre de Loaysa; 10. Voices of silence: al-Azraq and the French connection: why the Valencian crusade never ended.

Product details

• Authors: Robert I. Burns
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.01.2009
• EAN: 9780521095181
• ISBN: 978-0-521-09518-1
• No. of pages: 388
• Series: Cambridge Iberian and Latin Am
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History