Crusade and Colonisation: Muslims, Christians and Jews Under the Crown of Aragon (Variorum Collected Studies)

The history of the Reconquista - the Christian reconquest of Spain from the Arabs - has proved an increasingly stimulating field of historical research. On the one hand, the struggle forced Spanish society into a mould which then shaped the course of its expansion into the Americas, on the other it gave rise to a unique process of accommodation and acculturation. Dr Lourie here concentrates on the realms of the Crown of Aragon in the 12th-14th centuries. The first articles deal with the evolution of the crusading spirit, with geopolitics, notably the rivalry between Aragon and Castille, and with the progress of Christian colonisation. The next section examines the conflicting demands of ideology, demography and colonisation, and includes one major new study on Christian ambivalence towards the Mudejars, the conquered Muslim population. Dr Lourie seeks to throw this attitude into sharper focus by comparing the Muslim situation with that of the Jews, and it is to the latter and their relations with Christians that her last five articles are devoted. Cover Series Half Title Title Copyright Contents Preface Crusade and Colonisation I A Society Organised for War: Medieval Spain II The Confraternity of Belchite, the Ribat, and the Temple III The Will of Alfonso I, “El Batallador”, King of Aragon and Navarre: A Reassessment IV The Will of Alfonso I of Aragon and Navarre: A Reply to Dr Forey V La colonización cristiana de Menorca durante el reinado de Alfonso III “El Liberal”, rey de Aragon Muslims and Jews Under Christian Rule VI Free Moslems in the Balearics under Christian Rule in the Thirteenth Century VII Anatomy of Ambivalence: Muslims under the Crown of Aragon in the Late Thirteenth Century VIII A Jewish Mercenary in the Service of the King of Aragon IX Jewish Participation in Royal Funerary Rites: An Early Use of the Representatio in Aragon X A Plot which Failed? The Case of the Corpse Found in the Jewish Call of Barcelona (1301) XI Complicidad criminal: un aspecto insólito de convivencia judeo-cristiana XII Mafiosi and Malsines: Violence, Fear and Faction in the Jewish Aljamas of Valencia in the Fourteenth Century Addenda Index Elena Lourie. Reprint Of Previously Published Articles In English And Spanish. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.