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Society and Documentation in Crusader Valencia (Diplomatarium of the Crusader Kingdom of Valencia, 1.)
Society and Documentation in Crusader Valencia - Diplomatarium of the Crusader Kingdom of Valencia, 1. Author:Robert I. Burns "This extraordinary achievement crowns a lifetime of endeavor and guarantees that scholars generations hence will recall Burns as one of the great medievalists of the twentieth century." --Joseph O'Callaghan, Fordham University This work presents the first five hundred of the over 2,000 documents that Robert I. Burns will make available from the... more » registers of Jaume the Conqueror at the Crown Archives in Barcelona--the most impressive archives of this kind outside the papal series, and the first extensive use of paper by a European government. Volume II begins the four planned volumes of documents, which, along with the introduction that makes up Volume I, will constitute a unique corpus of material on Valencia, its place in an expanding Europe, and its status, after its conquest by Jaume of Aragon-Catalonia, as a colonialist world of Christian settlers ruling a Muslim majority and a large Jewish population. Volume II provides a wealth of information on this frontier society during the six years of its final pacification and incipient Europeanization (1257-1263). Affording numerous insights into the military, religious, economic, legal, bureaucratic, and social evolution of the area, the documents are made accessible to a wide readership by extended paraphrases that« less