Knights on the frontier : the Moorish guard of the Kings of Castile (1410-1467)
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Knights on the frontier : the Moorish guard of the Kings of Castile (1410-1467)
（The medieval and early modern Iberian world, v. 36）
Brill, 2009
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Caballeros en la frontera : la guardia morisca de los reyes de Castilla (1410-1467)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-345) and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
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