{"product_id":"the-sword-and-the-cross-castile-leon-in-the-era-of-fernando-iii-9789004427624","title":"The Sword and the Cross: Castile-León in the Era of Fernando III","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume provides a series of new perspectives on the political, military, and religious history of the reign of Fernando III, king of Castile-León, from 1217-1252. The essays collected here address the conquest of al-Andalus and the policies of Fernando III, Christian-Muslim relations in the Peninsula, the creation and curation of royal networks of power, the role of women at the Castilian court, and the impact of religious change in Castile-León. Assembling an international group of eleven leading scholars on this period of Iberian history, this volume combines military and religious history with a variety of novel  approaches and methodologies to ask new and exciting questions about the reign of Fernando III and his place in medieval European history.  Contributors are Martín Alvira, Carlos de Ayala Martínez, Janna Bianchini, Bárbara Boloix-Gallardo, Cristina Catalina, Francisco García Fitz, Francisco García-Serrano, Edward L. Holt, Kyle C. Lincoln, Miriam Shadis, and Teresa Witcombe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  List of Figures and Tables   Abbreviations   Notes on Contributors     Fernando III and His World    Edward L. Holt and Teresa Witcombe    1 Empire and Crusade under Fernando III   Carlos de Ayala Martínez    2 The Man “Who Broke and Destroyed All of His Enemies”: The Military Action of Fernando III    Francisco García Fitz    3 Fernando III and Muḥammad I of Granada: A Time of Collaboration between Two “Incompatible Worlds”    Bárbara Boloix-Gallardo    4 In exercitu loco eius pontificalia exercet: Warrior Clerics in the Era of Fernando III    Kyle C. Lincoln    5 Dilecta consanguinea mea: Fernando III’s Donation to a Nun of Fontevraud    Martín Alvira    6 Laudes regiae: Liturgy and Royal Power in Thirteenth-century Castile-León    Edward L. Holt    7 “At the Command of the Infantas”: Royal Women at Las Huelgas in the Thirteenth Century    Janna Bianchini    8 Family and Friends: Women at the Court of Fernando III    Miriam Shadis    9 The Peculiarities of Frontier Religious Authority in the Age of Fernando III    Francisco García-Serrano    10 Literary Expressions of Pastoral Reform during the Reign of Fernando III    Cristina Catalina     Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210798358871,"sku":"9789004427624","price":98.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-sword-and-the-cross-castile-leon-in-the-era-of-fernando-iii-9789004427624","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}