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

82 chapter four competing political theological traditions, Aragonese and Almohad, intersected. When ‘Uthmān finally appears in ...

a mercenary economy 83 the treatment of jenets by the Crown of Aragon.^48 Differently than for the jenets, he promised to make a ...

84 chapter four princes were still in Valencia, attempting to settle the debts owed to them for their service as jenets. In the ...

a mercenary economy 85 menassé’s mission to Granada in 1285 was only a part. The Crown of Ara- gon regularly sent ambassadors to ...

86 chapter four conquest of Sardinia, which is to say, he refused to let these troops fight against other Christians, saying thi ...

a mercenary economy 87 soldiers in his armies and entourage.^72 Finally, the historian al- Maqqarī described Christian soldiers, ...

88 chapter four Valencia to the court of Abū Zayd. According to Jaume’s autobiography, Blasco’s brother Giles converted to Islam ...

a mercenary economy 89 underscore the complexity of parsing these soldiers’ motivations. One, known as Abū’l- Ḥasan ‘Alī b. Rubu ...

90 chapter four use these soldiers against other Christians.^103 In practice, this trust was well placed. Christian militias pla ...

a mercenary economy 91 nations, in order to force them into submission. They do not use them for holy war, because they are afra ...

92 chapter four Aragonese captain named at Tlemcen, William Gauceran, was forgiven his participation in rebellion against the ki ...

a mercenary economy 93 authorities moved belatedly to legitimize the enduring presence of Chris- tian soldiers in Muslim kingdom ...

94 chapter four and ornamental function of these soldiers also outlasted the military and practical one. There is, however, one ...

a mercenary economy 95 different from the “social death” associated with Atlantic slavery, different from domestic slavery or sl ...

96 chapter four Thus, when the Umayyads and later the Almoravids and Almohads first employed Frankish and Galician military slav ...

a mercenary economy 97 who served in his armies and as his personal protectors.^163 These troops fiercely attacked Republican sy ...

chapter five The Unpaid Debt I n the summer of 1292 , several men arrived at the houses of Muça Al- mentauri and Maymon Avenbora ...

the unpaid debt 99 ambitions of the Aragonese kings, then the unpaid debt, the other half of the transaction, opens a door to th ...

100 chapter five Mahomet Abolxahe was granted 15 duplas to cover the cost of bringing his wife, Horo, and family to him.^11 Alth ...

the unpaid debt 101 service. As in the documents above, passing remarks suggest that these mercenary companies were agnatic grou ...