308 index
rationalism, 142 – 43 , 146 , 147 , 150
rational pragmatism, 14 , 68 , 141
Reconquista, 231 n 53
relativism, 6 , 146 – 47
religion: cultural account of, 67 , 148 ,
201 n 108 , 261 n 43 ; resisting stable
conception of, 6 , 15 , 158 n 16. See also
convivencia debates; political theology;
secular bias
religious difference: jenets’ relationship
with Aragonese kings and, 13 , 140 ; tran-
scended by bond between elites, 64
religious interaction: convivencia debates
and, 5 , 59 , 107 , 142 – 45 ; cultural histories
of, 148 ; emergence of sovereignty and,
14 ; liberal, conservative, and pragmatic
understandings of, 148 – 49 ; secular bias
in history of, 5 – 6 , 12 , 141 – 42 , 149
religious interaction in medieval Iberia:
Berber dynasties hostile to, 87 ; Catlos
on, 107 , 231 n 53 , 232 n 55 ; contemporary
concerns related to, 4 , 140 ; limit of
recent approaches to, 67 – 68 , 201 n 108 ;
motivations for attacks on jenets in, 109 –
10 ; slavery and privilege drawn together
in, 72 , 74 ; in Valencia under Crown of
Aragon, 7
religious others, imperial authority and, 12 ,
14 , 71 – 74 , 96 – 97 , 141
Renegado (Massinger), 18
Reverter, Berenguer, 88 – 89
Rodríguez de Castro, Fernando, 87
Roman law: Aragonese kings’ claims to
sovereignty and, 141 ; in Crown of
Aragon, 70 – 71 ; of Jaume I in Valencia,
81 ; Jaume I’s reforms and, 7 – 8 ; revived
at court of Frederick II, 68 – 70 ; slavery
under, 72 , 204 n 146 ; stripping rights of
non- Christians, 71. See also merum
imperium
roncinos (palfreys), 17 , 24 , 105
royal guards, Muslim: of Aragonese kings,
8 , 71 ; early Iberian evidence of, 86 ; of
Frederick II, 8 , 46 – 47 , 71 , 96 ; in North
African courts, 89 , 90 , 93 , 95 ; of slave
soldiers, 86 , 89 , 90
royal guards, pre- Islamic, 95
Saḥnūn, 125
Salicrú, Roser, 93
Salvatge, Pere, 179 n 65
Sánchez Albornoz, Claudio, 144 , 231 n 54
Sancii, Petrus, 105 , 108 , 109 , 111
Ṣanhāja Berbers, 28 , 29 , 167 n 77
Sardinia, 8 ; Jaume II’s conquest of, 56 , 85 – 86
Sarria, Bernat, 129
Schleiermacher, Friedrich, 149 – 50
Schmitt, Carl, 69 , 145 , 146 , 147 , 260 n 28
Scott, James, 232 n 61
secular bias, 149 ; about motivations of
jenets, 5 – 6 , 12 – 13 , 68 , 141 , 151
secularism: assuming separateness of
religion and politics, 56 , 68 , 158 n 13 ;
Kantorowicz on, 69 , 70 ; liberal and
conservative understandings of, 147 ,
261 n 37 , 261 n 39 ; questioning terminol-
ogy of, 151 ; Schmitt’s critique of, 145
secularization: bureaucratization seen as, 8 ;
Giménez Soler on, 59
Segui, Bernat, 92
self- coronation, 70 , 71
Sempavor, Geraldo, 89
sexual excess, hippological metaphors for, 18
Shāfi‘ī jurists, 127 – 28
Shakespeare, William, 17 – 18
Sheehan, Jonathan, 158 n 16 , 261 n 37
Shī‘ī traditions: of Fāṭimids, 28 ; Ibn Tūmart
and, 9
Sicilian Vespers, 77
Sicily: Angevin seizure of, in 1266 , 46 , 76 ;
Aragonese conquest of, 8 , 14 , 47 , 75 ;
court of Frederick II at, 68 – 69 ; Fāṭimid
influence on Norman, 209 n 39 ; Jaume II
first serving as king of, 77 , 82 ; Pere II
hoping for sovereignty in, 71 ; prolonged
Hohenstaufen- Angevin struggle over,
46 – 47
Simmel, Georg, 63 , 150
slavery, military, in Islamic world, 12 , 14 , 94 –
97 , 141 , 219 n 148 , 219 n 154 ; royal guards
and, 86 , 89 , 90 ; in Ṭā’ifa period, 87 ; in
Umayyad period, 212 n 74
slaves: black African, 95 ; bought and sold at
Mallorca and Barcelona, 237 n 96 ; bought
by jenets in Mallorcan slave markets,
116 ; buying or selling across religious
lines, 106 , 230 n 45 ; court of Frederick II
and, 14 , 72 ; jenets viewed as, by Ara-
gonese kings, 12 , 13 , 74 , 96 , 141 ; Roger
de Lauria’s Muslim captives sold as, 84