Knights on the Frontier

The Moorish Guard of the Kings of Castile (1410-1467)
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-90-04-17110-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 36, 358 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 748 g

Reihe: The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Echevarria, Ana

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Verwaltung, Streitkräfte (Militärwesen)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Ana Echevarria, Ph.D. (1995) in History, University of Edinburgh, is Assistant Professor of Medieval History at the Universidad Nacional de Educación 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).