a mercenary logic 3
It is the nature of archival research, however, that one can follow a nar-
rative thread like this, stitched across several folios, and at the next turn
of the page find it abruptly and agonizingly cut. From here, the registers
reveal nothing more about the five jenets riding mules.
An Inner Solidarity
These were not the first or only jenets.
Over the course of the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries — as
they subdued, expelled, and enslaved Muslim populations — the Christian
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BarcelonaPerpignanTortosaAlcalá de ChivertValenciaDeniaAlicanteMurciaCrevillenteTeruelAlbarracínDarocaCalatayudZaragozaJacaJátivaLéridaGerona
TarazonaMontesaBesalúColl de PanissarsVilafrancaSoriaV
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aAragonCatalonia- The Crown of Aragon (ca. 1300). Courtesy Dick Gilbreath, Gyula Pauer Center for Car-
tography and GIS, University of Kentucky.