Medievalists.net » Convivencia http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:35:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/02/the-myth-of-the-andalusian-paradise/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/02/the-myth-of-the-andalusian-paradise/#comments Sun, 02 Sep 2012 20:10:50 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=35315 The existence of a Muslim kingdom in Medieval Spain where different races and religions lived harmoniously in multicultural tolerance is one of today’s most widespread myths.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/02/the-myth-of-the-andalusian-paradise/feed/ 0 Reconquista and convivencia: Post-conquest Valencia during the Reign of Jaime I, el Conquistador: Interaction between Christians and Muslims (1238-1276) http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/05/reconquista-and-convivencia-post-conquest-valencia-during-the-reign-of-jaime-i-el-conquistador-interaction-between-christians-and-muslims-1238-1276/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/05/reconquista-and-convivencia-post-conquest-valencia-during-the-reign-of-jaime-i-el-conquistador-interaction-between-christians-and-muslims-1238-1276/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:21:11 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=29025 This study will focus on just one aspect of the transition from Muslim kingdom to medieval Christian state. In 1238, Ciudad de Valencia, the most important urban center in the Muslim kingdom of Valencia would fall to Jaime I, el conquistador, king of Christian Aragon and Catalonia, opening up a vast region to Christian influence.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/05/reconquista-and-convivencia-post-conquest-valencia-during-the-reign-of-jaime-i-el-conquistador-interaction-between-christians-and-muslims-1238-1276/feed/ 0 Leveraging Reputation: Guidaticums in Medieval Spain http://www.medievalists.net/2011/08/03/leveraging-reputation-guidaticums-in-medieval-spain/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/08/03/leveraging-reputation-guidaticums-in-medieval-spain/#comments Wed, 03 Aug 2011 15:54:33 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=23787 Leveraging Reputation: Guidaticums in Medieval Spain Smith, Daniel J. (George Mason University) Troy University – Manuel H. Johnson Center for Political Economy, October 31 (2010) Abstract The ability of traditional reputational mechanisms to facilitate wide scale self-enforcing exchange becomes severely limited as the number of agents, or their social distance, increases. While ex ante signaling […]

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