In this volume, a panoramic history of medieval Valencia
continues to unfold, as the noted scholar Robert Burns presents a
new set of documents from the registers of Jaume the Conqueror at
the Crown Archives in Barcelona. Here Burns focuses on 500
government charters covering the years 1264 to 1270, the
culmination of the king's warrior fame in Christendom, and places
these documents within the context of Jaumes's pan-Mediterranean
military and political exploits. The most impressive archives of
its kind outside the papal series, this collection is invaluable to
medievalists as well as to historians interested in topics ranging
from colonialism to rhetoric to economics during the Crusade
period. Together the five Diplomatarium volumes will reconstruct
the thousands of charters describing the daily business of Jaumes's
kingdom and will provide detailed paraphrases of each document to
aid scholars with little or no Latin.
The third volume describes Jaume distributing public baths and
taverns and artisans' quarters, constructing irrigation networks
and castles, licensing butchers and physicians, noticing even
dovecotes and beehives and oranges, operating on credit and on
charismatic itinerant presence, interacting with his many Jewish
and Muslim communities, and leading his armies to battle.
Meanwhile, Jaumes's bureaucrats are at work elaborating a Roman law
framework, shaping an institutional and commercial system, and
defining the kingdom's religious identity. In a kaleidoscope of
human detail, these documents open a window on an exotic past that
medievalists and all historians can enjoy.
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