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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778560403321

Autore

Echevarria Ana

Titolo

Knights on the Frontier : the Moorish Guard of the Kings of Castile (1410-1467)  / / Ana Echevarria ; translated by Martin Beagles

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : , : Brill, , 2009

ISBN

1-282-40020-7

9786612400209

90-474-2441-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (380 p.)

Collana

Brill eBook titles 2009

Altri autori (Persone)

BeaglesMartin

Disciplina

357/.10946309024

Soggetti

Christianity and other religions - Islam

Guards troops - Spain - History

Muslims - Spain - History

Castile (Spain) History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-345) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / A. Echevarria -- Chapter One. Christians, Mudejars And Granadans: Three Sides Of One Political Reality / A. Echevarria -- Chapter Two. The Moorish Knights, From The Frontier To The Court / A. Echevarria -- Chapter Three. The King’S "Foreign" Guard / A. Echevarria -- Chapter Four. The Conversion Of The Moorish Knights / A. Echevarria -- Chapter Five. The Dissolution Of The Moorish Guard / A. Echevarria -- Conclusion / A. Echevarria -- Documentary Appendix / A. Echevarria -- Bibliography / A. Echevarria -- Index / A. Echevarria.

Sommario/riassunto

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.