The Mercenary Mediterranean_ Sovereignty, Religion, and Violence in the Medieval Crown of Aragon - Hussein Fancy

42 chapter two confidence to the assertion, perhaps the prince was already using these soldiers in this intimate capacity. For t ...

a sovereign crisis 43 openly prized and praised their Muslim archers — who specialized in using the heavy “two- foot crossbow,” ...

44 chapter two Crown. Before the mission of 1284 , some jenets were already willing to enter into its service. The relationship ...

a sovereign crisis 45 king, for instance, entrusted his doctor to carry special messages to the queen and prince, and the letter ...

46 chapter two Conrad, our main protagonist, as well as Roger de Lauria, the future admiral of fame.^49 This marriage alliance, ...

a sovereign crisis 47 as bodyguards, a fact that drew more than passing notice from visitors.^60 That Pere also called upon Conr ...

48 chapter two men, King Pere could only muster a scant force — thirty- eight knights and seventy foot soldiers — at Coll de Pan ...

a sovereign crisis 49 Castle of Empostà (Amposta), south of Teruel in Catalonia, by the Hos- pitaller Knights. Both Kings Pere I ...

50 chapter two Finally, Conrad arrived in Granada, where he met the chief minister of the Naṣrid sultan as well as man named Muç ...

a sovereign crisis 51 Çahim and Çahit, then within a year, the Crown was aiming to recruit these notorious Ghuzāh leaders. The n ...

52 chapter two costs of Çahim and the rest of his troops in coming to Coll de Panissars.^93 As he would on later occasions with ...

chapter three Sovereigns and Slaves T he Crown of Aragon’s decision to recruit large numbers of Muslim jenets initially emerged ...

54 chapter three It was pecuniary nature of the professional or contractual bond, how- ever, that led Machiavelli to warn rulers ...

sovereigns and slaves 55 a handful of other men, also royal administrators, dealt with the jenets. The Crown’s grip on these sol ...

56 chapter three four solidi per diem.^20 The Crown paid the same to Christian light cav- alry during the conquest of Sardinia, ...

sovereigns and slaves 57 To all men of whatever frontier location of our land: Because Mahomet el Vi- ello, our jenet, and other ...

58 chapter three Finally, one also finds the jenets fighting alongside almogàvers and adalids, lightly armored Catalan and Arago ...

sovereigns and slaves 59 rational thought and, as such, promoted violence. In short, they dismissed belief as blind adherence. T ...

60 chapter three marks like the Christian soldiers of North Africa.^43 For instance, Alfons offered to provide the troops of the ...

sovereigns and slaves 61 wish to enter into our service, which pleases us greatly. And we hope that after seeing this letter, yo ...