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Al-Masaq, Vol. 19, No. 1, March 2007 A Forgotten Community: The Mudejar Aljama of Xa`tiva 1240-1327 ISABEL A. O’CONNOR, 2003 [Medieval Mediterranean, Vol. 44] Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2003. viiiþ 251 pp., ill. and maps EUR 98.00/US$ 128.00 (Cloth) ISBN 9004128468. On the heels of his conquest of Mallorca (1232) and of Valencia (1238), Jaime I of Arago ´ n subjected the fortified, mountain town of Ja ´ tiva (Xa ` tiva, in Catalan) to a series of sieges beginning in 1239. The...
Al-Masaq, Vol. 19, No. 1, March 2007 A Forgotten Community: The Mudejar Aljama of Xa`tiva 1240-1327 ISABEL A. O’CONNOR, 2003 [Medieval Mediterranean, Vol. 44] Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2003. viiiþ 251 pp., ill. and maps EUR 98.00/US$ 128.00 (Cloth) ISBN 9004128468. On the heels of his conquest of Mallorca (1232) and of Valencia (1238), Jaime I of Arago ´ n subjected the fortified, mountain town of Ja ´ tiva (Xa ` tiva, in Catalan) to a series of sieges beginning in 1239. The bilingual (Arabic and Latin) surrender treaty of Ja ´ tiva, recently discovered in the Aragonese Crown archive in Barcelona, clarifies the date of the final surrender as 641/1244 (R.I. Burns and P.E. Chevedden, Negotiating Cultures: Bilingual Surrender Treaties in Muslim-Crusader Spain. Leiden: Brill, 1999). Burns has noted that Jaime, in his autobiographical Llibre dels Feyts, called Ja ´ tiva ‘‘the key to the rest of the kingdom’’, adding ‘‘I could not be king of the kingdom if Jativa were not mine’’ (p. 96). Following from Burns and Chevedden in Brill’s series The Medieval Mediterranean, O’Connor offers a rare, detailed study of the Muslims left behind in one of the Kingdom of Valencia’s most prosperous towns. An archivally
Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean – Taylor & Francis
Published: Mar 1, 2007
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