This fourth volume in Robert Burns's celebrated series on the
warrior King Jaume the Conqueror's Kingdom of Valencia describes
the crucial years of 1270 to 1273, a period during which Jaume
continued his consolidation of political power for future
territorial expansion. Here in the colonial kingdom that he carved
out from the Islamic Mediterranean regions of coastal Spain, Jaume
presided over a society more complex than any in Christendom. This
lively frontier was home to semiautonomous communities of Muslims,
Jews, and Christian settlers. Jaume's pioneering exploitation of
Valencia's Islamic paper mills left behind thousands of
charters--records in the king's registers--that provide a wealth of
detailed information about every aspect of these parallel
cultures.
Burns's "Diplomatarium" volumes represent the first systematic
exploration of this massive deployment of paper in the West. They
open up to readers the rich humanistic panorama of medieval life as
seen from the traveling court of a conqueror king. The 500 charters
collected in this book cover a kaleidoscope of topics, including
public baths, castles, the renaissance of law, irrigation, mosques
and monasteries, hospitals and banks, even exotic women. There are
records on crossbow manufacture, riot and fire control, ship
launchers, dogs of war, crime, slavery, prisons, and pardons.
This critical edition includes reconstructions of each charter
in its original Latin or Romance language with a corresponding
translation in English, making it invaluable for students and
scholars alike.
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