Iberia and the Mediterranean World of the Middle Ages, Volume I: Proceedings from Kalamazoo : : Studies in Honor of Robert I. Burns S.J. / / edited by Simon.

• Superior document: The Medieval Mediterranean ; 4
• Author: International Congress on Medieval Studies
• TeilnehmendeR: Simon, Larry J.,; International Congress on Medieval Studies (27th : 1992 : Western Michigan University)
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden;, Boston : : BRILL,, 1995.
• Year of Publication: 1995
• Language: English
• Series: Medieval Mediterranean ; 4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Eighteen studies, many based on archival evidence or new methodologies, some proceeding from novel angles, explore the history and culture of Iberia, Italy, and the Mediterranean World in the Middle Ages. The studies were originally presented at the 27th International Congress of Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo in 1992, and have been collected in honor of Robert I. Burns, S.J., the distinguished medievalist and historian of Mediterranean Spain. Most of the studies mirror the honoree's scholarly interests: Muslim-Christian-Jewish relations in medieval Iberia, the economy and society of the Mediterranean World, religious polemic and ecclesiastical history, and medieval personalities and institutions. Ten of the studies concern aspects of cultural symbiosis or inter-religious relations in a pluri-ethnic society; and at least an equal number relate to the literary and social history of the Catalan-speaking lands of Mediterranean Spain.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations -- Figures -- Maps -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography of Robert I. Burns, S.J. -- Introduction 1 -- 1. R. I. Burns as Ethnologist and Historian of the Old World and the New -- Lawrence J. McCrank 17 -- 2. The Artillery of King James I the Conqueror -- Paul E. Chevedden 47 -- 3. Army Mobilization, Royal Administration, and the Realm in the Thirteenth-Century Crown of Aragon -- Donald J. Kagay 95 -- 4. Kings and Lords in Conflict in Late Thirteenth-Century Castile and Aragon -- Joseph F. O'Callaghan 117 -- 5. The Civic Status of the Jew in Medieval Spain -- Norman Roth 139 -- 6. Conversion and Co-existence: The Franciscan Mission in the Crown of Aragon -- Jill R. Webster 163 -- 7. Islamic Social Structures in Muslim and Christian Valencia -- Mikel de Epalza 179 -- 8. Berbers in Valencia: The Case of Irrigation -- Thomas F. Glick 191 -- 9. Lay and Ecclesiastical Encounters on the Medieval Castilian Frontier -- Theresa M. Vann 209 -- 10. Sacred and Secular Politics: The Convent of Sant Pere de les [actual symbol not reproducible] in Thirteenth-Century Barcelona -- Linda A. McMillin 225 -- 11. Ransomers or Royal Agents: The Mercedarians and the Aragonese Crown in the Fourteenth Century -- James W. Brodman 239 -- 12. Conspiracy and Cover-up: The Order of Montesa on Trial (1352) -- Elena Lourie 253 -- 13. The Growth of the Cities of the Crown of Aragon in the Later Middle Ages -- Carmen Batlle 321 -- 14. Commerce and the Kingdom of Majorca, 1150-1450 -- David Abulafia 345 -- 15. The Transport of Muslim Slaves in Fifteenth-Century Valencia -- Paul G. Padilla 379 -- 16. Dubrovnik and Spain: Commerce and Human Contacts, Fourteenth-Sixteenth Centuries -- Barisa Krekic 395 -- 17. The Spanish Kingdoms and the Wider World in the Later Middle Ages -- William D. Phillips, Jr. 407 -- Bibliography 431 -- Index 451.