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The Mercenary Mediterranean - Sovereignty, Religion, and Violence in the Medieval Crown of Aragon (Paperback)
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The Mercenary Mediterranean - Sovereignty, Religion, and Violence in the Medieval Crown of Aragon (Paperback)
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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 of Aragon, 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 sources, The Mercenary Mediterranean
explores this little-known and misunderstood history. Far from
marking the triumph of toleration, Hussein Fancy 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.
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