
Knights on the Frontier
The Moorish Guard of the Kings of Castile (1410-1467)
Ana Echevarria(Author)
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 23. December 2008
Book
Hardback
358 pages
978-90-04-17110-7 (ISBN)
Description
The kings of Castile maintained a personal cavalry guard through much of the fifteenth century, consisting of practicing Muslims and converts to Christianity. This privileged Muslim elite provides an interesting case-study to propose new theories about voluntary conversion from Christianity to Islam in the Iberian Peninsula, as well as the ways of assimilation of such a group into the local and courtly environments where they lived thereafter. Other subjects involved are the transformation of royal armies from feudal companies to regimented, professional forces including a well-trained cavalry, which in Castile was formed partly by these knights. Their descendants had to endure the changing policies conveyed by Isabel and Fernando, which increased discriminatory habits towards converts in Castilian society.
Reviews / Votes
"...Ana Echevarria has written an excellent book that places the hitherto obscure history of the Guardia mora in the context of Christian-Muslim relations and Castilian military organization. Utilizing many unpublished records, the work is thoroughly researched. An extensive bibliography, a map, a genealogical table, and an index complete a most interesting volume."Joseph F. O'Callaghan (Fordham University) in The Catholic Historical Review, 2010 issue (vol. 96, no. 4)
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
748 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-17110-7 (9789004171107)
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Person
Ana Echevarria, Ph.D. (1995) in History, University of Edinburgh, is Assistant Professor of Medieval History at the Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Spain. She has published on the relations between Christianity and Islam in the Iberian Peninsula, including The Fortress of Faith: The Attitude towards Muslims in Fifteenth-Century Spain (Brill, 1999).
Content
Acknowledgements .. ix
Introduction .. xi
Chapter One: Christians, Mudejars and Granadans: three sides of one political reality .. 1
Chapter Two: The Moorish knights, from the Frontier to the Court .. 47
Chapter Three: The King's "foreign" guard .. 97
Chapter Four: The conversion of the Moorish knights .. 139
Chapter Five: The dissolution of the Moorish guard .. 191
Documentary Appendix .. 211
Conclusion .. 329
Bibliography .. 333
Index .. 347
Introduction .. xi
Chapter One: Christians, Mudejars and Granadans: three sides of one political reality .. 1
Chapter Two: The Moorish knights, from the Frontier to the Court .. 47
Chapter Three: The King's "foreign" guard .. 97
Chapter Four: The conversion of the Moorish knights .. 139
Chapter Five: The dissolution of the Moorish guard .. 191
Documentary Appendix .. 211
Conclusion .. 329
Bibliography .. 333
Index .. 347