Conquerors, brides, and concubines : interfaith relations and social power in medieval Iberia / Simon Barton.
Material type: TextSeries: Middle Ages seriesPublication details: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, �2015.Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (x, 264 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780812292114
- 0812292111
- 1322639639
- 9781322639635
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity -- History -- To 1500
- Christianity and other religions -- Iberian Peninsula
- Women -- Iberian Peninsula -- Social conditions -- History -- To 1500
- Sexual ethics -- Iberian Peninsula -- History -- To 1500
- Interfaith marriage -- Iberian Peninsula -- History -- To 1500
- Iberian Peninsula -- Religion -- History
- Iberian Peninsula -- Social conditions -- History
- Iberian Peninsula -- Politics and government -- History
- HISTORY -- Medieval
- Christianity
- Interfaith marriage
- Interfaith relations
- Islam
- Politics and government
- Religion
- Sexual ethics
- Social conditions
- Women -- Social conditions
- Europe -- Iberian Peninsula
- To 1500
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- HQ1031 .B345 2015
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Sex as Power -- Chapter 2. Marking Boundaries -- Chapter 3. Damsels in Distress -- Chapter 4. Lust and Love on the Iberian Frontier -- Conclusion -- Appendix. The Privilegio del Voto -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Conquerors, Brides, and Concubines investigates the political and cultural significance of marriages and other sexual encounters between Christians and Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula from the Islamic conquest in the early eighth century to the end of Muslim rule in 1492.
In English.
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