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

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court as precedent for use of, 8 , 14 ,
46 – 47 , 72 ; Ghuzāh as principal source
of, 12 – 14 , 37 – 38 , 53 , 119 , 141 ; gifts and
privileges for, 59 – 67 , 74 , 115 , 118 ; hos-
tages taken to secure loyalty of, 101 – 2 ,
130 , 137 – 38 ; Ibn Khaldūn as source on,
33 , 37 ; imperial posture of Aragonese
kings and, 8 ; Islamic law and, 126 , 128 ;
Jaume II’s use of, against Castile, 129 –
30 ; Jaume II’s use of, against Granada,
132 – 39 ; Jewish, 62 ; as light cavalry, 36 –
37 , 56 ; limits of loyalty to Christian king,
13 , 138 – 39 ; limits on Aragonese kings’
uses of, 13 , 75 , 85 – 86 , 128 ; loyalty to
Marīnid Ghuzāh, 13 , 15 ; military slavery
tradition and, 12 , 14 , 96 , 141 ; mutually
coercive dynamic involving, 29 ; noble-
men rebelling against the king and, 73 ;
payments for services of, 53 – 56 , 185 n 20 ,
186 n 21 ; Pere II’s recruiting mission to
Granada for, 39 – 40 , 45 , 48 – 52 , 84 – 85 ; as
raiders and bandits, 1 , 50 – 51 , 65 , 103 – 6 ;
recruited from North Africa, 12 – 13 ,
37 , 75 ; scant scholarly attention to, 4 – 5 ,
156 nn 8 – 9 ; secular bias about motiva-
tions of, 5 – 6 , 12 – 13 , 68 , 141 , 151 ; in ser-
vice to the Crown before 1284 , 40 – 42 ,
43 – 44 ; servitude of religious others and,
12 , 14 , 73 – 74 , 141 ; as synecdoche for
Marīnid cavalry, 33 ; war spoils granted
to, 65 , 104 , 105 , 131 ; wives of, 98 – 100 ,
102 , 103 , 223 n 15 , 224 n 19
jenet saddles, 62 , 161 n 23 , 195 n 70. See also
jineta saddle
jenetus, 16 , 17
jennet horses, 17 – 18
jenny (mule), 18
Jewish jenet, 62
Jews: Aragonese legislation on clothing and,
66 ; Augustinian tradition of debased
status for, 72 ; at court of Frederick II,
14 , 72 ; Crown of Aragon’s reliance on,
44 , 55 , 71 – 73 ; cultural conditions in
medieval Spain and, 198 n 86 ; noblemen’s
complaints about, 6. See also Abenme-
nassé, Samuel
jihād: as basic requirement of Islam,
126 ; Catlos on justifying role of, 107 ,
231 n 53 ; contested meaning of, 125 – 28 ;
the Ghuzāh and, 15 , 34 – 35 , 37 , 49 – 50 ,

120 – 21 , 124 – 25 , 241 n 13 ; jenets serving

through tradition of, 12 , 15 , 125 , 128 ; of

Marīnids, 12 , 15 , 30 , 31 , 33 , 121

jineta saddle, 18 – 19. See also jenet saddles

jinete, 17 , 19 , 21 , 36

jinetear, 61

Jonas, Hans, 260 n 33

Justice, Steven, 67 , 158 n 15 , 262 n 45 , 263 n 67

Justinian I, 69

Kantorowicz, Ernst, 69 , 70 , 145 – 47 , 202 n 124 ,

260 n 28 , 260 n 31

Keane, Webb, 261 n 40 , 263 n 65

Kelsen, Hans, 69

King’s Two Bodies (Kantorowicz), 145 – 46 ,

260 n 28 , 260 n 31

Kitāb al- ‘ibar (Ibn Khaldūn), 27 , 33 – 34 ,

37 , 120

laicization of Europe, 54

lance: of Christian knights ( jineta), 19 ; two-

headed (madas), 36 , 171 n 121

lancers, recruited from Mudéjares, 45

Lancia, Conrad: coup of 1279 at Tunis and,

76 ; as first master of accounts, 46 ; on

mission to Ḥafṣid court, 79 ; on recruiting

mission to Granada, 39 , 41 , 42 , 44 , 45 , 47 ,

48 – 51 , 120 ; theft from jenets and, 231 n 48

Lancia, Federico, 46 , 76

Lapiedra, Eva, 94

Lauria, Roger de, 46 , 47 , 52 , 84 , 85

law. See canon law; Islamic law; Roman law

Lazier, Benjamin, 261 n 37

legal reforms of Jaume I, 7 – 8

Leo Africanus, 93

Lev, Yaacov, 95

Lévi- Provençal, Évariste, 212 n 68

Lévi- Strauss, Claude, 160 n 14

liberal accounts of religion, 5 , 59 , 67 , 142 –

43 , 144 , 145 , 147 , 148 , 149

Libia, Bernat de, 134 , 136 , 137 , 138

Louis IX of France, 46 , 76

Lourie, Elena, 16 , 62 , 80 , 194 n 67 , 198 n 86

Lower, Michael, 92

Lüdtke, Helmut, 21

Lull, Ramon, 20

Luther, Martin, 149

Machiavelli, Niccolò, 54

Maghrāwa, 28 , 29 , 167 n 71