Possessing the Land: Aragon's Expansion in Islam's Ebro Frontier Under Alfonso the Battler 1104-1134 (Medieval Mediterranean, Peoples, Economics and Cultures, 400-1453, Vol 7)

Possessing the Land: Aragon's Expansion in Islam's Ebro Frontier Under Alfonso the Battler 1104-1134 (Medieval Mediterranean, Peoples, Economics and Cultures, 400-1453, Vol 7)

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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.

Possessing the Land: Aragon's Expansion in Islam's Ebro Frontier Under Alfonso the Battler 1104-1134 (Medieval Mediterranean, Peoples, Economics and Cultures, 400-1453, Vol 7),C. Stalls,Clay Stalls,Brill Academic Publishers,9004103678,Alfonso I, 1104-1134,Aragon (Spain),Architecture,Ebro River Region,Europe - Spain & Portugal,History,History: World,Interior Design - General,Islamic History,Land settlement,Medieval,Spain,Spain And Portugal - History,Territorial expansion,To 1500,Alfonso,Christianity,European history: c 500 to c 1500,Islam,Social history,c 1000 CE to c 1500

Book Contents:

1. Pre-Design Set
2. Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament As Part of Christian Literature: The Case of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs and the Greek Life of Adam and ... in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha)
3. Questions on the De Anima of Aristotle (Studien Und Texte Zur Geistesgeschichte Des Mittelalters)
4. Reconstructing Biblical Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Method Applied to the Reconstruction of 4Qsama (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah)
5. Regulating Religion and Morality in the King's Armies, 1639-1646 (History of Warfare, V. 22)
6. Rhetorical Criticism of the Bible: A Comprehensive Bibliography With Notes on History and Method (Biblical Interpretation Series)
7. Roger Bacon and the Sciences: Commemorative Essays (Studien Und Texte Zur Geistesgeschichte Des Mittelalters)
8. Rome and the Counter-Reformation in Scandinavia: The Age of Gustavus Adolphus and Queen Christina of Sweden, 1622-1656 (Studies in the History of Christian Thought, Vol 48)
9. Seashore Designs
10. Selected Topics in Characteristic Functions (Modern Probability and Statistics)

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