196 notes to pages 62–63
vel cui volerit. Tribus traditis presentem recuperis cum apocha de soluti. Datum
ut supra.” The Marīnid king also delivered several jenet bridles to Jaume II (ACA,
CR, Jaume II, caixa 163 , extra series, no. 1934 ). In 1309 , the ambassador Pere
Boyl also brought several gifts back from the Marīnid sultan, including five Ber-
ber horses, five jenet saddles, five jenet bridles(?), five silver jenet swords with fine
leather grips, and one large, round tent. ACA, RP, MR, 624 , fols. 111 r – 112 r: “V
cavalls [B]arbareschs ab V celles genetes e V
guarnides dargent ab correges de ceda e I gran tenda redona obrada.”
71. ACA, R. 67 , fol. 97 v ( 21 Mar. 1286 ). For more on the context for this docu-
ment, see Fancy, “The Intimacy of Exception,” 74.
72. On the juegos de caña, see J. R. Juliá Viñamata, “Jocs de guerra i jocs de
lleure a la Barcelona de la baixa edat mitjana,” Revista d’etnologia de Catalunya
1 ( 1992 ): 10 – 23 ; idem, “Las manifestaciones lúdico- deportivas de los barceloneses
en la Baja Edad Media,” in Espai i temps d’oci a la Història. Actes de les XI jorna-
des d’estudis històrics locals, ed. Maria Barceló Crespí and Bernat Sureda García,
629 – 42 ; and Fuchs, Exotic Nation, 89 – 108. On the festivals, see Marlene Albert-
Llorca and José Antonio González Alcantud, Moros y cristianos: representations
del otro en las fiestas del Mediterraneo occidental; and Teofilo F. Ruiz, “Elite and
Popular Culture in Late Fifteenth- Century Castilian Festivals: The Case of Jaén,”
in City and Spectacle in Medieval Europe, eds. Barbara Hanawalt and Kathryn
Reyerson, 296 – 381.
73. ACA, R. 82 , fol. 163 v ( 23 Aug. 1290 ): “Eidem [Arnaldo de Bastida] quod
[det] Gayleno, janeto nostro, quinquaginta solidos regalium pro eando vulnere
[quod] nuper sibi fecerunt quando ludebat ad genetiam.” See also Catlos, “Ma-
homet Abenadalill,” 289. Mahomet Abenadilil was also compensated for a horse
lost in a similar match. ACA, R. 82 , fol. 66 v ( 6 Sep. 1290 ): “Eidem fuit scriptum
[al]iud albaranum quod solvit nobili [Ma]hometo Abnadalyl pro quitacione sua
et familie s[u]e quae cum eo venerunt de Granata pro mense Augusti preterito
DXXXVI duplas mirias. Item pro quitacione Sarracenorum peditum pro dicto
mense et pro esmend[i] unius equi qui fuit interfectus in rambla Valencie super
ludo janethie XXXII duplas et med[ia]m mirias. Datum ut supra.”
74. ACA, R. 688 , fol. 18 v ( 2 Aug. 1356 ): “... quibusdam militibus sarracenis
qui pro prostando nobis servicio in auxilium quod dudum Illustri Regi Francie mi-
tere intendebamus de partibus Granate fecimus procurare... .” See also Boswell,
Royal Treasure, 186 – 87.
75. Georg Simmel, “Adornment,” in The Sociology of Georg Simmel, ed.
K. H. Wolff, 341 , as cited in Webb Keane, “The Hazards of New Clothes: What
Signs Make Possible,” in The Art of Clothing: A Pacific Experience, ed. Susanne
Küchler and Graeme Were, 12.
76. ACA, R. 19 , fol. 48 v; ACA, R. 65 , fol. 112 r; ACA, R. 252 , fol. 34 v; and
ACA, R. 334 , fol. 63 r – v.
77. ACA, R. 82 , fol. 91 r ( 21 Dec. 1290 ): “Raimundo de Rivo Sicco quod tradat
Mahometo Abenadalillo austurchonem suum et dominus Rex satisfac[iat] sibi in