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Book SynopsisThis volume, in honour of Professor Elena Lourie, focuses on various areas of interaction between Jews, Muslims and Christians in the late medieval Crown of Aragon and its environs. The articles deal with topics such as war, military campaigns, government, politics, and economics, relations between scholars of the different faiths and their sources, sexual relations and the politics of conversion, mythology and music. Other articles touch on issues such as vassalage, mercenaries, fiscal politics, communal politics and the inquisition. This book presents a mosaic of studies written by three generations of scholars who, using a broad variety of sources and methodologies, examine areas of great interest to Elena Lourie.
Table of ContentsAbbreviations .. ix Part One: Introduction Crusade, Colonisation and Dancing Rabbis: In and Around the Work of E. Lourie .. 3 Harvey J. Hames Part Two: Politics, War And Law The Royal Accounts of the Crown of Aragon .. 15 Jocelyn N. Hillgarth The Crusade against Murcia: Provisioning the Armies of James the Conqueror, 1264–1267 .. 35 Robert I. Burns A Society Organized for War? Córdoba in the Time of Ferdinand and Isabella .. 75 John Edwards “Nam iudei servi regis sunt, et semper fisco regio deputati”: The Jews in the Municipal Fuero of Teruel (1176–7) .. 97 David Abulafia Part Three: Minority And Majority Interaction Love Between Muslim and Jew in Medieval Spain: A Triangular Affair .. 127 David Nirenberg “My Master, the Jew”: Observations on Interfaith Scholarly Interaction in the Middle Ages .. 157 Thomas F. Glick “Vassal and Friend”. Strategies of Mudejar Submission and Resistance to Christian Power in Castile .. 183 Ana Echevarria The Islamic “Beautiful Names of God” and the Lullian Art .. 197 Charles Lohr A Song and Dance: Transcultural Practices of Daily Life in Medieval Spain .. 207 Eleazar Gutwirth The Myth of Troy and Hercules as Reflected in the Writings of some Jewish Exiles from Spain .. 229 Ram Ben Shalom Part Four: Case Studies Mahomet Abenadalill: A Muslim Mercenary in the Service of the Kings of Aragon (1290–1291) .. 257 Brian A. Catlos Revisiting the Wax-Press Affair in Morvedre (1326–1327): Jewish Fiscal Politics in the Kingdom of Valencia .. 303 Mark D. Meyerson Solomon Anagni, Perpuntero of the King of Aragon and Deputy Merino of Saragossa (XIV Century) .. 321 Asuncíon Blasco Martínez An Inquisitorial Process against the Judiasing Juan del Escuela (1491–1492) .. 349 Carlos Carrete Parrondo Index .. 355
