This work presents the first five hundred of the over 2,000
documents that Robert I. Burns will make available from the
registers of Jaume the Conqueror at the Crown Archives in
Barcelona--the most impressive archives of this kind outside the
papal series, and the first extensive use of paper by a European
government. Volume II begins the four planned volumes of documents,
which, along with the introduction that makes up Volume I, will
constitute a unique corpus of material on Valencia, its place in an
expanding Europe, and its status, after its conquest by Jaume of
Aragon-Catalonia, as a colonialist world of Christian settlers
ruling a Muslim majority and a large Jewish population. Volume II
provides a wealth of information on this frontier society during
the six years of its final pacification and incipient
Europeanization (1257-1263). Affording numerous insights into the
military, religious, economic, legal, bureaucratic, and social
evolution of the area, the documents are made accessible to a wide
readership by extended paraphrases that
Originally published in 1991.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these
important books while presenting them in durable paperback
editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly
increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the
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