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The Moorish guard of the Kings of Castile (1410-1467) / by Ana Echevarria ; translated by Martin Beagles

Author
Echevarria, Ana
Uniform Title
Caballeros en la frontera. English
Published
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xix) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Beagles, Martin
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Language Note
Translated from the Spanish.
Contents
Christians, mudejars and Granadans : three sides of one political reality -- The Moorish knights, from the frontier to the court -- The king's "foreign" guard -- The conversion of the Moorish knights -- The dissolution of the Moorish guard -- Documentary appendix.
Summary
The kings of Castile maintained a personal cavalry guard through much of the fifteenth century, consisting of practicing Muslims and converts to Christianity. This privileged Muslim elite provides an interesting case-study to propose new theories about voluntary conversion from Christianity to Islam in the Iberian Peninsula, as well as the ways of assimilation of such a group into the local and courtly environments where they lived thereafter. Other subjects involved are the transformation of royal armies from feudal companies to regimented, professional forces including a well-trained cavalry, which in Castile was formed partly by these knights. Their descendants had to endure the changing policies conveyed by Isabel and Fernando, which increased discriminatory habits towards converts in Castilian society.
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ISBN
9789047424413 (electronic bk.)
9047424417 (electronic bk.)
900417110X (hardback ; alk. paper)
9789004171107 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9789004171077 (hardback ; alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-345) and index.
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