Iberia and the Mediterranean world of the Middle Ages : studies in honor of Robert I. Burns. Vol. 2, Proceedings from "Spain and the Western Mediterranean"

Brill's series The Medieval Mediterranean has established itself as the main forum for studies exploring all aspects of the Mediterranean world during a period of 1000 years. In the medieval period, the Mediterranean experienced a multiplicity of developments in social, political and economic structures, and in populations, religions and cultures. The centuries between the Late Roman world of the fourth and fifth century and the early modern, "Braudelian," Mediterranean of the sixteenth century were characterised by sweeping changes, including the establishment of post-Roman kingdoms in the west, the emergence of Slav societies in the Balkans, the struggle between Christians and Muslims in Spain and the movement of crusaders. Founded in 1993, The Medieval Mediterranean series reflects the complexity of this period with a wide variety of high-quality scholarly works: from broad surveys to diachronic studies of particular areas or cities; investigations of individual themes or issues; conference proceedings, text editions and fully annotated translations. Top specialists in a range of fields have contributed to the series and the volumes which have appeared so far have been warmly welcomed by reviewers. This series is indispensable for readers with interests in the history of later antiquity, the Middle Ages, Byzantium, Islam, the Balkans and the Black Sea area. Publication schedule At present 3 volumes of around 350 pages each are published in the series each year. The vast majority of the books in the series are in the English language, although works of outstanding quality in French or German may also be included. Volumes contain illustrations and maps where appropriate. Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Illustrations Figures Maps List of Tables List of Contributors Acknowledgments Abbreviations Bibliography of Robert I. Burns, S.J. Introduction PART ONE MAN OF TWO FRONTIERS: ROBERT I. BURNS, S.J. R. I. Burns as Ethnologist and Historian of the Old World and the New PART TWO WARFARE AND DIPLOMACY The Artillery of King James I the Conqueror Army Mobilization, Royal Administration, and the Realm in the Thirteenth-Century Crown of Aragon Kings and Lords in Conflict in Late Thirteenth-Century Castile and Aragon PART THREE THE LAND OF THREE RELIGIONS The Civic Status of the Jew in Medieval Spain Conversion and Co-existence: The Franciscan Mission in the Crown of Aragon Islamic Social Structures in Muslim and Christian Valencia Berbers in Valencia: The Case of Irrigation PART FOUR LAY AND ECCLESIASTICAL INTERACTION Lay and Ecclesiastical Encounters on the Medieval Castilian Frontier Sacred and Secular Politics: The Convent of Sant Pere de les Puel●les in Thirteenth-Century Barcelona Ransomers or Royal Agents: The Mercedarians and the Aragonese Crown in the Fourteenth Century Conspiracy and Cover-up: The Order of Montesa on Trial (1352) PART FIVE URBAN AND COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT The Growth of the Cities of the Crown of Aragon in the Later Middle Ages Commerce and the Kingdom of Majorca, 1150–1450 The Transport of Muslim Slaves in Fifteenth-Century Valencia Dubrovnik and Spain: Commerce and Human Contacts, Fourteenth-Sixteenth Centuries The Spanish Kingdoms and the Wider World in the Later Middle Ages Bibliography Index The Medieval Mediterranean This series of essays, dedicated to the work and career of Father Robert I. Burns, S.J., treats the complex relationship of Spain to the Western Mediterranean and Atlantic on the eve of Spain's ascent as a world power.