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Negotiating Cultures
Bilingual Surrender Treaties in Muslim-Crusader Spain under James the Conqueror
Series: - The Medieval Mediterranean, Volume: 22
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James I "the Conqueror", king of Arago-Catalonia, conquered Mediterranean Spain from Islam during fifty crusading years (1225-1276). From his many surrender treaties, only two survive in their interlinear bilingual originals, both presented here. Each reflects the fragmentation of post-Almohad Islam, the warrior heroes of Islam carving recalcitrant principalities out of the confusion, the hard-fought local negotiations and the confrontation between two radically opposed mentalities.
The full meaning of these battered and deteriorated bits of parchment emerges only from minute reconstruction of the Arabic and Latinate texts and especially from ever-widening circles of changing contexts in each world, an historical kaleidoscope.
Many surprises here await students of medieval Europe, the Islamic West, Spain, the Crusades, diplomacy, Mudejars/Moriscos, and cultural conflict and interchange.
The full meaning of these battered and deteriorated bits of parchment emerges only from minute reconstruction of the Arabic and Latinate texts and especially from ever-widening circles of changing contexts in each world, an historical kaleidoscope.
Many surprises here await students of medieval Europe, the Islamic West, Spain, the Crusades, diplomacy, Mudejars/Moriscos, and cultural conflict and interchange.
Robert I. Burns, S.J., Ph.D. (1958, Johns Hopkins), Doc. Ãs. Sc.Hist. (1961, Fribourg), is a Senior History Professor at the University of California (UCLA) and author of ten books on medieval Spain, including currently Jews in the Notarial Culture (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1996).
Paul E. Chevedden, Ph.D. (1986, UCLA) is Professor of History at the Virginia Military Institute and specializes in premodern siege tactics and fortifications. Hee has edited and contributed to Iberia and the Mediterranean World of the Middle Ages: Essays in Honor of Robert I. Burns, S.J., vol. 2 (Brill, 1996) and has published studies on pre-modern artillery and defensive planning as well as on Arabic epigraphy.
MÃkel de Epalza, Ph.D., has held teaching posts in Spanish, French, and Arabic universities and is currently professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Alicante. A prolific author, he edits the journal Sharq al-Andalus.
Paul E. Chevedden, Ph.D. (1986, UCLA) is Professor of History at the Virginia Military Institute and specializes in premodern siege tactics and fortifications. Hee has edited and contributed to Iberia and the Mediterranean World of the Middle Ages: Essays in Honor of Robert I. Burns, S.J., vol. 2 (Brill, 1996) and has published studies on pre-modern artillery and defensive planning as well as on Arabic epigraphy.
MÃkel de Epalza, Ph.D., has held teaching posts in Spanish, French, and Arabic universities and is currently professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Alicante. A prolific author, he edits the journal Sharq al-Andalus.
'...a detailed revision of James' conquest of the kingdom of Valencia, a multi-faceted analysis of two documents, and a series of illuminating contextual essays.'
Brian Catlos, Medieval Encounters, 2000.
Brian Catlos, Medieval Encounters, 2000.
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Preface
Part One Al-Azraq and James the Conqueror
1. Al-Azraq's World
2. The Al-Azraq Treaty
3. The Al-Azraq Treaty
Part Two Jativa and James the Conqueror
4. Jativa: Key to the South
5. The Tightening Noose: A sequence of Sieges
6. Expulsion 1248, Removal 1252
7. The Treaty of 1244 Rediscovered
8. Latin Text: Witnesses, Reconstruction, Dark Fate
9. The 1244 Treaty: Arabic Text and Analysis
Part Three Cultures in Negotiation: Negotitating a Culture
10. 'Ahd: Muslim/Mudejar/Morisco Communities
11. Crusader Perspective, Islamic Perspective
Appendix
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Preface
Part One Al-Azraq and James the Conqueror
1. Al-Azraq's World
2. The Al-Azraq Treaty
3. The Al-Azraq Treaty
Part Two Jativa and James the Conqueror
4. Jativa: Key to the South
5. The Tightening Noose: A sequence of Sieges
6. Expulsion 1248, Removal 1252
7. The Treaty of 1244 Rediscovered
8. Latin Text: Witnesses, Reconstruction, Dark Fate
9. The 1244 Treaty: Arabic Text and Analysis
Part Three Cultures in Negotiation: Negotitating a Culture
10. 'Ahd: Muslim/Mudejar/Morisco Communities
11. Crusader Perspective, Islamic Perspective
Appendix
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Those interested in medieval history; Islamic/Arabic history and culture; the Crusades; military and diplomatic history; Spanish history; paleography-archivistics; academic libraries; educated laymen.