The mercenary Mediterranean : sovereignty, religion, and violence in the medieval crown of Aragon /
Over the course of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the Christian kings of Aragon recruited thousands of foreign Muslim soldiers to serve in their armies and as members of their royal courts. Based on extensive research in Arabic, Latin and Romance sources, 'The Mercenary Mediterranean&...
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: a mercenary logic
- Etymologies and etiologies
- A sovereign crisis
- Sovereigns and slaves
- A mercenary economy
- The unpaid debt
- The worst men in the world
- Epilogue: medievalism and secularism.
