Robert Ignatius Burns

Diplomatarium of the Crusader Kingdom of Valencia (eBook, ePUB)

The Registered Charters of Its Conqueror, Jaume I, 1257-1276. IV: Unifying Crusader Valencia, The Central Years of Jaume the Conqueror

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This fourth volume in Robert Burns's celebrated series on the warrior King Jaume the Conqueror's Kingdom of Valencia describes the crucial years of 1270 to 1273, a period during which Jaume continued his consolidation of political power for future territorial expansion. Here in the colonial kingdom that he carved out from the Islamic Mediterranean regions of coastal Spain, Jaume presided over a society more complex than any in Christendom. This lively frontier was home to semiautonomous communities of Muslims, Jews, and Christian settlers. Jaume's pioneering exploitation of Valencia's Islamic paper mills left behind thousands of charters--records in the king's registers--that provide a wealth of detailed information about every aspect of these parallel cultures.

Burns's Diplomatarium volumes represent the first systematic exploration of this massive deployment of paper in the West. They open up to readers the rich humanistic panorama of medieval life as seen from the traveling court of a conqueror king. The 500 charters collected in this book cover a kaleidoscope of topics, including public baths, castles, the renaissance of law, irrigation, mosques and monasteries, hospitals and banks, even exotic women. There are records on crossbow manufacture, riot and fire control, ship launchers, dogs of war, crime, slavery, prisons, and pardons.

This critical edition includes reconstructions of each charter in its original Latin or Romance language with a corresponding translation in English, making it invaluable for students and scholars alike.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780691236902
• Artikelnr.: 62387879

Autorenporträt

Robert I. Burns, S. J. is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. His many books include Negotiating Cultures and Jews in the Notarial Culture.

Inhaltsangabe

ILLUSTRATIONS vii
PREFACE ix
SIGLA xi
INTRODUCTIO 3
Charters 501-600 23
Charters 601-700 130
Charters 701-800 245
Charters 801-900 360
Charters 901-1000 471
Years 1263-1264 23
Year 1265 125
Year 1266 199
Year 1267 252
Year 1268 298
Year 1269 432
Year 1270 570