Jews, Muslims, and Christians in and Around the Crown of Aragon: Essays in Honour of Profesor Elena Lourie (Medieval Mediterranean)

375 Pages·2004·1.75 MB·English

by  Elena Lourie

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JEWS, MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS IN AND AROUND
THE CROWN OF ARAGON
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THE
MEDIEVAL MEDITERRANEAN
PEOPLES, ECONOMIES AND CULTURES, 400-1500
EDITORS
HughKennedy(St. Andrews)
PaulMagdalino(St. Andrews)
DavidAbulafia(Cambridge)
BenjaminArbel(Tel Aviv)
MarkMeyerson (Toronto)
LarryJ. Simon(Western Michigan University)
VOLUME 52
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JEWS, MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS
IN AND AROUND
THE CROWN OF ARAGON
Essays in Honour of Professor Elena Lourie
EDITED BY
HARVEY J. HAMES
BRILL
LEIDEN •BOSTON
2004
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This book is printed on acid-free paper.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Jews, Muslims, and Christians in and around the Crown of Aragon : essays in honour of
Professor Elena Lourie / edited by Harvey J. Hames.
p. cm. — (The medieval Mediterranean ; v. 52)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 90-04-12951-0
1. Aragon (Spain)—History. 2. Aragon (Spain) —Ethnic relations. 3.
Jews—Spain—Aragon—History. 4. Muslims—Spain—Aragon—History. 5.
Christians—Spain—Aragon—History. 6. Spain—History—711-1516. I. Lourie, Elena. II.
Hames, Harvey J. III. Series.
DP125.J49 2003
946’.5502—dc21
2003052332
ISSN 0928–5520
ISBN 90 04 12951 0
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for Elena
µyrdy µykjyç hxwrh
One who desires wisdom
should go south
(b. Talmud, Bava Batra, f. 25b)
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CONTENTS
Abbreviations .............................................................................. ix
PART ONE
INTRODUCTION
Crusade, Colonisation and Dancing Rabbis:
In and Around the Work of E. Lourie .............................. 3
Harvey J. Hames
PART TWO
POLITICS, WAR AND LAW
The Royal Accounts of the Crown of Aragon ...................... 15
Jocelyn N. Hillgarth
The Crusade against Murcia: Provisioning the Armies of
James the Conqueror, 1264–1267 ........................................ 35
Robert I. Burns
A Society Organized for War? Córdoba in the Time of
Ferdinand and Isabella .......................................................... 75
John Edwards
“Nam iudei servi regis sunt, et semper fisco regio deputati”:
The Jews in the Municipal Fuero of Teruel (1176–7) ...... 97
David Abulafia
PART THREE
MINORITY AND MAJORITY INTERACTION
Love Between Muslim and Jew in Medieval Spain:
A Triangular Affair ................................................................ 127
David Nirenberg
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“My Master, the Jew”: Observations on Interfaith Scholarly
Interaction in the Middle Ages ............................................ 157
Thomas F. Glick
“Vassal and Friend”. Strategies of Mudejar Submission
and Resistance to Christian Power in Castile .................... 183
Ana Echevarria
The Islamic “Beautiful Names of God” and the
Lullian Art .............................................................................. 197
Charles Lohr
A Song and Dance: Transcultural Practices of Daily Life
in Medieval Spain .................................................................. 207
Eleazar Gutwirth
The Myths of Troy and Hercules as Reflected in the
Writings of some Jewish Exiles from Spain ........................ 229
Ram Ben Shalom
PART FOUR
CASE STUDIES
Mahomet Abenadalill: A Muslim Mercenary in the
Service of the Kings of Aragon (1290–1291) ...................... 257
Brian A. Catlos
Revisiting the Wax-Press Affair in Morvedre (1326–1327):
Jewish Fiscal Politics in the Kingdom of Valencia ............ 303
Mark D. Meyerson
Solomon Anagni, Perpuntero of the King of Aragon and
Deputy Merino of Saragossa (XIV Century) ........................ 321
Asuncíon Blasco Martínez
An Inquisitorial Process against the Judaising Juan del
Escuela (1491–1492) .............................................................. 349
Carlos Carrete Parrondo
Index .......................................................................................... 355
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ABBREVIATIONS
ACA Arxiu de la Corona de Aragó
AEM Anuario de estudios medievales (Barcelona)
AHPC, PN Archivo Histórico Provincial de Córdoba, Protocolos
Notariales
AMC Archivo Municipal de Córdoba
AHPZ Archivo Histórico de Protocolos de Zaragoza
CDIACA Colección de Documentos Inéditos de la Corona de Aragón (Bar-
celona 1847– )
MGH Monumenta Germaniae Historica
PL J.P. Migne, Patrologia Latina