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- Giménez Soler, “Caballeros”; Gazulla, “Zenetes”; Lourie, “A Jewish Merce-
nary”; and Catlos, “Mahomet Abenadalill.” - Giménez Soler, “Caballeros,” 348 – 49.
- This confusion is paralleled in etymological studies. While Joan Coromines
and J. A. Pascual, Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico, 516 – 18 ,
claims that “jinete” derives from the Berber tribe, the Zanāta, it also claims that
“jineta” derives from the Arabic gharnāṭa, the city of Granada. - Lourie, “A Jewish Mercenary,” 367 – 73 ; and idem, “Anatomy of Ambiva-
lence,” 8. - Catlos, “Mahomet Abenadalill,” 259 n 6 , citing Antoni María Alcover i Sureda
and Francesch de Borja Molls y Casanovas, Diccionari català- valencià- balear, s.v.
“genet.” Boswell conflates Mudéjar and jenet soldiers, taking the term jenet to sig-
nify any light cavalry soldier, Mudéjar or foreign. See, for instance, Boswell, Royal
Treasure, 186. - For the passage of other Arabic words into Romance and Latin, see Eva
Lapiedra Gutiérrez, Cómo los musulmanes llamaban a los cristianos hispánicos;
and Ana Echevarría Arsuaga, “La conversion des chevaliers musulmans dans la
Castille du xve siècle,” in Conversions islamiques: Identités religieuses en Islam médi-
terranéen, ed. Mercedes García- Arenal, 119 – 138. - Sebastián de Covarrubias, Tesoro de la lengua castellana o española, ed. Mar-
tín de Riquer, 640 : “Hombre de cavallo, que pelea con lança y adarga, recogidos
los pies con estirbos cortos, que no baxan de la barriga del cavallo,” as cited with
translation in Barbara Fuchs, Exotic Nation: Maurophilia and the Construction of
Early Modern Spain, 92. - Wallace Stevens, “The Comedian as the Letter C.”
- The French genet dates to the fourteenth century, the Italian ginnetto to the
fifteenth. - Shakespeare, Othello, I.i. 112 – 13.
- Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, I.i. 282 ; and Philip Massinger, Renegado
( 1624 ), III.iii. 88. See also Massinger, Fatal Dowry ( 1616 – 19 ), IV.i. 73 ; idem, Very
Woman ( 1634 ), III.v. 55 ; and John Fletcher, Thierry and Theodoret ( 1607 – 21 ), I.i.113. - David Nirenberg, “Was There Race Before Modernity? The Example of ‘Jew-
ish’ Blood in Late Medieval Spain,” in The Origins of Racism in the West, ed. Ben
Isaac, Yossi Ziegler, and Miriam Eliav- Feldon, 232 – 64 , esp. 248 – 49. - Claude Lévi- Strauss, Totemism, 89 : “We can understand, too, that natural
species are chosen [as totems] not because they are ‘good to eat’ but because they
are ‘good to think.’ ” - See the Oxford English Dictionary, s.v. “jennet”; and Walter Scott, Ivanhoe,
- Generally, see Charles Oman, The Art of War in the Middle Ages, 378 – 1515 ;
Hans Delbrück, History of the Art of War Within the Framework of Political His tory,
III: 234 ; and Joseph R. Strayer, ed., Dictionary of the Middle Ages, s.v. “cav alry.” For