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Knights on the frontier : the Moorish guard of the Kings of Castile (1410-1467) / by Ana Echevarría ; translated by Martin Beagles.

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Knights on the frontier : the Moorish guard of the Kings of Castile (1410-1467) / by Ana Echevarría ; translated by Martin Beagles.
Author
Echevarria, Ana.
Publication
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

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Beagles, Martin.
Description
xix, 358 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.
Summary
"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."--Jacket
Series Statement
Medieval and early modern Iberian world , 1569-1934 ; v. 36
Uniform Title
  • Caballeros en la Frontera. English
  • Medieval and early modern Iberian world v. 36.
Alternative Title
Caballeros en la Frontera.
Subject
  • Spain. Guardia Real > History
  • Geschichte 1410-1467
  • Guards troops > Spain > History
  • Muslims > Spain > History
  • Christianity and other religions > Islam
  • Castile (Spain) > History
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-345) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Christians, mudejars and Granadans : three sides of one political reality -- The Moorish knights, from the frontier to the court -- The king's "foreign" guard -- The conversion of the Moorish knights -- The dissolution of the Moorish guard -- Documentary appendix.
ISBN
  • 9789004171107 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 900417110X (hardback : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2008035394
OCLC
  • 465129266
  • SCSB-13219790
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library