Muslims Christians, and Jews in the Crusader Kingdom of Valen... - 9780521095181

Muslims Christians, and Jews in the Crusader Kingdom of ValenciaSocieties in Symbiosis\nAuthor(s): Robert I. Burns\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521095181, 978-0521095181\nSynopsis\nThe crusade which conquered Mediterranean Spain in the thirteenth century resulted in the domination by an alien Christian minority of a dissident Muslim majority and an unusually large Jewish population. Professor Burns' research into previously untapped archival sources reveals the tensions and interaction between the three religious societies after the crusade. A principal source for the author's research has been the revolutionary paper registers of King Jaume the Conqueror. These abundant and neglected documents shed new light on Jaume's pluri-ethnic kingdom during its first generation of settlement. The chapters, each a pioneering work for its topic, are radically different in subject and in approach, and .