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



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Autore: Echevarria Ana Visualizza persona
Titolo: Knights on the Frontier : the Moorish Guard of the Kings of Castile (1410-1467) / / Ana Echevarria ; translated by Martin Beagles Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Boston : , : Brill, , 2009
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (380 p.)
Disciplina: 357/.10946309024
Soggetto topico: Christianity and other religions - Islam
Guards troops - Spain - History
Muslims - Spain - History
Soggetto geografico: Castile (Spain) History
Altri autori: BeaglesMartin  
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Knights on the Frontier  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-40020-7
9786612400209
90-474-2441-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910778560403321
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Serie: The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World ; 36.