The Victors and the Vanquished: Christians and Muslims of Catalonia and Aragon, 1050 1300

by Brian A. Catlos and Brian Catlos

Book Overview

This revisionary study of Muslims living under Christian rule during the Spanish reconquest delves into the subtleties of identity under the thirteenth-century Crown rule of Aragon. Brian Catlos uncovers a social dynamic in which sectarian differences comprise only one of the many factors in the causal complex of political, economic and cultural reactions. Beginning with the final stage of independent Muslim rule in the Ebro valley region, he traces...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521036445
• ISBN13: 9780521036443
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"