Introduction: a mercenary logic -- Etymologies and etiologies -- A sovereign crisis -- Sovereigns and slaves -- A mercenary economy -- The unpaid debt -- The worst men in the world -- Epilogue: medievalism and secularism
Summary
Over the course of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the Christian kings of Aragon recruited thousands of foreign Muslim soldiers to serve in their armies and as members of their royal courts. Based on extensive research in Arabic, Latin and Romance sources, 'The Mercenary Mediterranean' explores this little-known and misunderstood history
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-298) and index
Notes
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 16, 2016)
American Historical Association: AHA Herbert Baxter Adams Prize; American Institute for Maghrib Studies: L. Carl Brown AIMS Book Prize in North African Studies; De Re Militari: Verbruggen Prize
