Possessing the Land

Aragon's Expansion Into Islam's Ebro Frontier Under Alfonso the Battler 1104-1134
Erscheinungsjahr 1995
ISBN: 978-90-04-10367-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 771 g

Reihe: The Medieval Mediterranean

Possessing the Land is the first comprehensive treatment of Christian Aragon's expansion under Alfonso I (1104-1134) into a major arena of medieval Christian/Islamic contact: the Islamic Ebro River march of Aragon. Based on an extensive examination of primary and secondary sources, the book's insights into the social and political processes of Christian settlement and the fate of post-conquest Islam are of particular importance. Its conclusions that the freeholding of land characterized the Ebro's Christian settlement, and not heavy seignorialization, and that Christian settlement relied on the Muslim infrastructure, challenge significantly the neo-Marxist thesis of the “feudalization” of twelfth-century Christian Iberian society and the corresponding Christian break with Iberia's Islamic Past. This book constitutes a fundamental work in Iberian frontier studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stalls

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Abbreviations
Map
I. The Geography and History of Alfonso's Ebro Conquests 1
II. Possessing the Land: The King as Agent and Governor of Settlement 59
III. The Nobility of the Ebro 115
IV. Non-Noble and Non-Royal Settlement of the Ebro 157
V. The Church of the Ebro Frontier 224
VI. The Dilemma of Conquered Muslims Under Christian Rule: The Aragonese Solution 279
Conclusion 316

Bibliography 321
Index 333

Über Autor(innen)

Clay Stalls, Ph.D. (1991) in History, University of California, Los Angeles, is currently a lecturer in the UCLA Department of History. He is the author of numerous articles on Muslim/Christian relations in medieval Iberia and on medieval Iberian social history.