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

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200 notes to pages 66–67



  1. See Libre de les costums generals scrites de la insigne ciutat de Tortosa, ed.
    Josep Foguet Marsal, Ramon Foguet, and Joan J. Permanyer i Ayats, 85 (I.ix: 4 ):
    “Los sarrayns deuen portar los cabells tolts en redon; e deuen portar barba larga.
    E dels cabells nos deuen tolre a vs ne a costum de crestia. E la sobirana vestedura
    lur deu esser aljuba o almeixa.” Cf. Boswell, Royal Treasure, 331 – 32 , who cites two
    documents from the chancery registers that reiterate the requirements regarding
    hair. Cf. “Corts de Lleida” ( 1301 ) in Cortes de los antiguos reinos de Aragón y
    de Valencia y de principado de Cataluña, I: 190 ; and “Corts de Zaragoza” ( 1301 )
    in Fueros y observancias del Reyno de Aragón, fols. 10 v – 11 r, as cited in Ferrer i
    Mallol, Els sarraïns, 43 n 11. See also H. J. Schroeder, Disciplinary Decrees of the
    General Councils: Text, Translation and Commentary, 236 – 96 , canon 68.

  2. David Nirenberg, “Conversion, Sex, and Segregation: Jews and Christians
    in Medieval Spain,” American Historical Review 107 , no. 4 ( 2002 ): 1065 – 93.

  3. Alcover, Diccionari català- valencià- balear, s.v. “aljuba” and “almeixia.”
    Reinhart Pieter Anne Dozy, Dictionnaire détaillé de noms de vêtements chez les
    Arabes, s.v. “jubba” and “maḥshiya.” See also Gonzalo Menéndez- Pidal and Car-
    men Bernis Madrazo, “Las Cantigas: la vida en el s. XIII según la representación
    iconográfica. (II) Traje, Aderezo, Afeites,” Cuadernos de la Alhambra 15 – 17 ( 1979 –
    81 ): 89 – 154 ; Rachel Arié, “Quelques remarques sur le costume des Musulmans
    d’Espagne au temps de Naṣrides,” Arabica 12 , no. 3 ( 1965 ): 244 – 64 , esp. 247. Libre
    de les costums generals scrites de la insigne ciutat de Tortosa, I:IX: 3 : “E no deu esser
    listada, ne vert, ne vermella.”

  4. See a letter from King Jaume II forbidding Christians from wearing the
    aljuba in Joaquín Lorenzo Villanueva, Viage literario a las iglesias de España, XVI:
    231 , as cited in Boswell, Royal Treasure, 332 n 10.

  5. Boswell, Royal Treasure, 45 , 331 – 32. See also ARV, Justicia de Valencia,
    1 bis, fol. 50 r ( 1280 ), an arrest for wearing a wool cape of “moltes et diversis” colors.

  6. Boswell, The Royal Treasure, 37 , 45 , 51 , 331 – 32 ; Catlos, Victors and the
    Vanquished, 301.

  7. ACA, R. 81 , fol. 10 r ( 3 Jan. 1290 ): “... iuratis Valencie. Scire vos credi-
    mus quod licet iudei Barchinone et Valencie habeant privilegium ferendi capas
    quod illi Iudei Barchinone qui sunt de domo nostra non sunt astricti propter dic-
    tum privilegium ad ferendum capam. Quare vobis dicimus et mandamus quate-
    nus... Abrafimum Abenamies qui de domo nostra est et Abrafimum el Jenet de
    dicto doma nostra non compellatis aliquatenus ferendum aliquam capam racione
    pri[vile]gii supradicti... .” See also n 68 , above.

  8. John D. Caputo, “Without Sovereignty, Without Being: Unconditionally,
    the Coming God and Derrida’s Democracy to Come,” Journal of Cultural and
    Religious Theory 4 , no. 3 ( 2003 ): 12 , commenting on Jacques Derrida, Voyous, 155.

  9. Echevarría Arsuaga, Caballeros en la frontera, esp. chap. 3.

  10. On the cultural turn in medieval studies, see Paul Freedman and Gabri-
    elle Spiegel, “Medievalisms Old and New: The Rediscovery of Alterity in North

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