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03241aam a2200397Ii 4500 001 5BA6FDA8F79311E8BA923B1497128E48 003 SILO 005 20181204010734 008 180320t20182016ilu 000 0 eng d 020 $a 9780226597898 020 $a 022659789X 035 $a (OCoLC)1028908102 040 $a YDX $b eng $c YDX $d CBY $d IWA $d SILO 050 00 $a DP302 A7 F36 2018 100 1 $a Fancy, Hussein Anwar, $d 1974- $e author. 245 14 $a The mercenary Mediterranean : $b sovereignty, religion, and violence in the medieval Crown of Aragon / $c Hussein Fancy. 264 1 $a Chicago ; $b University of Chicago Press, $c 2018. 300 $a xv, 310 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-298) and index (pages [299]-310) 505 0 $a List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- On names, places, dates, and transcriptions -- Etymologies and etiologies -- A sovereign crisis -- Sovereigns and slaves -- A mercenary economy -- The unpaid debt -- The worst men in the world -- Epilogue: medievalism and secularism -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 520 $a Sometime in April 1285, five Muslim horsemen crossed from the Islamic kingdom of Granada into the realms of the Christian Crown of Aragon to meet with the king, who showered them with gifts, including sumptuous cloth and decorative saddles, for agreeing to enter the Crown's service. They were not the first or only Muslim soldiers to do so. Over the course of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the Christian kings of Aragon recruited thousands of foreign Muslim soldiers to serve in their armies and as members of their royal courts. Based on extensive research in Arabic, Latin, and Romance archives, this book explores this little-known and misunderstood history. Far from marking the triumph of tolerance, the author argues, the alliance of Christian kings and Muslim soldiers depended on and reproduced ideas of religious difference. Their shared history represents a unique opportunity to reconsider the relation of medieval religion to politics, and to demonstrate how modern assumptions about this relationship have impeded our understanding of both past and present. 586 $a American Historical Association: AHA Herbert Baxter Adams Prize; American Institute for Maghrib Studies: L. Carl Brown AIMS Book Prize in North African Studies; De Re Militari: Verbruggen Prize. 650 0 $a Soldiers of fortune $z Aragon $z Aragon $x History $y 13th century. 650 0 $a Soldiers of fortune $z Aragon $z Aragon $x History $y 14th century. 650 0 $a Foreign enlistment $z Aragon $z Aragon $x History. 650 0 $a MudeÌjares $z Aragon $z Aragon $x History. 650 0 $a Muslims $z Aragon $z Aragon $x History $y 13th century. 650 0 $a Muslims $z Aragon $z Aragon $x History $y 14th century. 650 0 $a Muslims $z Africa, North $x History $y 13th century. 650 0 $a Muslims $z Africa, North $x History $y 14th century. 651 0 $a Aragon (Spain) $x History, Military $y 13th century. 651 0 $a Aragon (Spain) $x History, Military $y 14th century. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190103015838.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5BA6FDA8F79311E8BA923B1497128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search