The crusade which conquered Mediterranean Spain in the thirteenth century resulted in the domination by an alien Christian minority of a dissident Muslim majority and an unusually large Jewish population.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Muslim-Christian conflict and contact: Mudejar methodology; 2. Surrender constitutions: the Islamic communities of Eslida and Alfandech; 3. Christian-Muslim confrontation: the thirteenth-century Cream of conversion; 4. Piracy: Islamic-Christian interface in conquered Valencia; 5. King Jaume's Jews: problem and methodology; 6. Portrait gallery: Jews of crusader Valencia; 7. The language barrier: bilingualism and interchange; 8. Bounding the Moorish frontier: territoriality and prosopography; 9. Real estate and literary echo: the case of Jofre de Loaysa; 10. Voices of silence: al-Azraq and the French connection: why the Valencian crusade never ended.