Warrior Neighbours: Crusader Valencia in its International Context, Collected Essays of Father Robert I. Burns, S. J.

"This volume presents the impressive corpus of studies by Robert I. Burns, SJ, on the topic that he has spent a half-century exploring in meticulous detail: the Crusader Kingdom of Valencia. These studies focus on one of Europe's greatest medieval monarchs, James the Conqueror of Aragon-Catalonia, who made an enduring contribution to Western civilization. James I 'the Conqueror' conquered Mediterranean Spain from Islam during fifty crusading years (1225-1276). Not only did he contend with 'infidel' powers around him, he frequently vied with warring Christian neighbours. This book presents a rich depiction of King James's warrior neighbours, Muslim and Christian, from the king who was his greatest ally and greatest rival, Alfonso X the Learned (1212-1284), to the redoubtable and resourceful al-Azraq, a Muslim adventurer, rebel, and leader of one of the most formidable Islamic countercrusades in Spain. These studies illuminate such themes as cultural conflict and interchange, border tensions and frontier relations, medieval warfare and crusading, piracy, brigandage and reprisals, grievance management, medieval queenship and papal relations, the role of Jews in a pluri-ethnic kingdom, Mudejars and Moriscos, and the warrior heroes of Islam. King James presided over a society more complex than any in Christendom, and these studies unlock the details of this stunning achievement. Robert I. Burns, SJ, Ph. D. (Johns Hopkins University), Doc. es Sc. Hist. (Fribourg University, Switzerland), was Professor Emeritus of History at UCLA and Director of the Institute of Medieval Mediterranean Spain. He was an elected Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, and of the Hispanic Society of America, and a Guggenheim Fellow. His distinctions include the Haskins gold medal of the Medieval Academy of America, seven national book awards, eight honorary doctorates, and the Order of the Cross of St George."--Publisher's website Front Matter ("Title Page", "Copyright Page", "Table of Contents", "Illustrations", "Acknowledgements and Editorial Comment"), p. i Free Access Introduction, p. 5 Paul Freedman https://doi.org/10.1484/M.BCEEC-EB.1.100227 Castle of Intellect, Castle of Force: The Worlds of Alfonso the Learned and Jaume the Conqueror, p. 13 Robert I. Burns https://doi.org/10.1484/M.BCEEC-EB.1.100228 Warrior Neighbours: Alfonso the Learned (El Sabio) and Crusader Valencia — an Archival Case Study in his International Relations, p. 31 Robert I. Burns https://doi.org/10.1484/M.BCEEC-EB.1.100229 The Many Crusades of Valencia’s Conquest (1225–80): An Historiographical Labyrinth, p. 103 Robert I. Burns https://doi.org/10.1484/M.BCEEC-EB.1.100230 How to End a Crusade: Techniques for Making Peace in the Thirteenth-Century Kingdom of Valencia, p. 115 Robert I. Burns https://doi.org/10.1484/M.BCEEC-EB.1.100231 Almohad Prince and Mudejar Convert: New Documentation on Abū Zayd, p. 133 Robert I. Burns https://doi.org/10.1484/M.BCEEC-EB.1.100232 Daughter of Abū Zayd, Last Almohad Ruler of Valencia: The Family and Christian Seigniory of Alda Ferrándis, 1236–1300, p. 151 Robert I. Burns https://doi.org/10.1484/M.BCEEC-EB.1.100233 Regalo para una madre: una muchacha esclava musulmana del nieto de Abū Zayd, el señor de Borriol (1301), p. 215 Robert I. Burns https://doi.org/10.1484/M.BCEEC-EB.1.100234 The Crusade against al-Azraq: A Thirteenth-Century Mudejar Revolt in International Perspective, p. 219 Robert I. Burns https://doi.org/10.1484/M.BCEEC-EB.1.100235 A Lost Crusade: Unpublished Bulls of Innocent IV on al‐Azraq’s Revolt in Thirteenth‐Century Spain, p. 255 Robert I. Burns https://doi.org/10.1484/M.BCEEC-EB.1.100236 La guerra de al-Azraq de 1249, p. 267 Robert I. Burns https://doi.org/10.1484/M.BCEEC-EB.1.100237 A Medieval Earthquake: Jaume I, al-Azraq, and the Early History of Onteniente in the Kingdom of Valencia, p. 271 Robert I. Burns https://doi.org/10.1484/M.BCEEC-EB.1.100238 The Loss of Provence. King Jaume’s Raid to Kidnap its Heiress (1245): Documenting a ‘Legend’, p. 307 Robert I. Burns https://doi.org/10.1484/M.BCEEC-EB.1.100239 The Crusade against Murcia: Provisioning the Armies of Jaume the Conqueror, 1264–67, p. 351 Robert I. Burns https://doi.org/10.1484/M.BCEEC-EB.1.100240 Back Matter ("Brepols Collected Essays in European Culture"), p. 389