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

62 chapter three was facing a combined French and Castilian threat, three jenets of his household traveled to Granada “at the ki ...

sovereigns and slaves 63 in which participants dressed as “Moors,” or the moros y cristianos festi- vals, mock battles between l ...

64 chapter three representatives of Çahim Abennaquem received colored tunics and shoes made with silks imported from France and ...

sovereigns and slaves 65 conferred upon the jenets could be read as evidence of honor and esteem, then they might also be read a ...

66 chapter three that clothing was freighted with spiritual and moral danger in the medieval Crown of Aragon. Indeed, clothing w ...

sovereigns and slaves 67 of Moorish knights as their personal guard, who appeared in parades alongside them, physically marking ...

68 chapter three medieval Mediterranean have come to the same understanding of them as their liberal and conservative predecesso ...

sovereigns and slaves 69 sought to ground royal authority and legitimacy upon the Roman idea of royal law (lex regia), which is ...

70 chapter three of divinity and its relationship to man. It mattered deeply, for instance, whether God’s will was bound (potest ...

sovereigns and slaves 71 whom commanded more wealth and arms than the king himself, balked. They complained of “innovations,” of ...

72 chapter three the royal administration.^143 Against a backdrop of new efforts to convert, expel, and demonize Jews throughout ...

sovereigns and slaves 73 in his administration, indicating their awareness of the relationship be- tween non- Christians, Sicili ...

74 chapter three Thus, in employing the Muslim jenets, King Pere and his successors were not merely acquiring skilled soldiers b ...

chapter four A Mercenary Economy T racing the Crown of Aragon’s efforts to recruit jenets across the later thirteenth and fourte ...

76 chapter four and into the ancient Mediterranean. These same ideas would also rattle forward into the modern world. The Tunisi ...

a mercenary economy 77 The aggression against Tunis continued. In 1282 , an Aragonese fleet landed at Collo (al- Qull) to suppor ...

78 chapter four to deal with the recruitment of jenets. Alfons instructed his ambassadors to convey two sentiments to Abū Ya‘qūb ...

a mercenary economy 79 the ambassador to “express his desire to be friends with him [the sultan] just as his father, King Pere, ...

80 chapter four Almohad Empire. On August 31 , 1269 , as the Marīnid cavalry approached the rose walls of Marrakesh, the last Al ...

a mercenary economy 81 is that he would keep this conversion a secret for another twenty- eight years.^32 In his relationship wi ...