List of Figures and Tables
List of Contributors
One Conquest, Two Worlds: An Introduction
Félix Retamero and Josep Torró
Part 1: The Organisation of the Conquests: Political, Military and
Financial Aspects
1 Partners-in-arms. Medieval Military Associations:From the Iberian
cabalgada to the American entrada
Josep Torró
2 Council and Urban Militias in the Crown of Aragon during the 13th
Century:From Conquering Militias to Monetary Exemptions
Enric Guinot
3 War and Booty as Incentives for Emigration:Tortosa and al-Andalus
(12th–13th Centuries)
Antoni Virgili
4 Medieval Factors in the Conquest of America:Organisation and War
Practices in the Incursions into Darién
Carmen Mena García
5 On the Use of Terror, Cruelty and Violence in the Spanish
Conquest of the Americas:Some Thoughts
Antonio Espino-López
Part 2: The Agrarian Organisation of the New Colonial Societies
6 Feudal Conquest and Colonisation:An Archaeological Insight into
the Transformation of Andalusi Irrigated Spaces in the Balearic
Islands
Helena Kirchner
7 The Agrarian Model of Valencian Moriscos
Manuel Ardit Lucas†
8 Iberian Colonisations and Water Distribution Systems (15th–16th
c.):A Comparative Approach
Félix Retamero and Virgilio Martínez-Enamorado
9 Commercial Crop or Plantation System?:Sugar Cane Production from
the Mediterranean to the Atlantic
Adela Fábregas-García
10 Early Colonial Utilization and Management in Peru
Inge Schjellerup
Part 3: The Political Organisation of the New Colonial Societies.
The Management of the Conquered Populations and Lands
11 Servants, Slaves or Subjects?:Jews, Muslims and Indians as Royal
Property
David Abulafia
12 The Kingdom of Granada:Between the Culmination of a Process and
the Beginning of a New Age
Antonio Malpica
13 Portugal, Morocco and Guinea:Reconfiguration of the North
Atlantic at the End of the Middle Ages
António de Almeida Mendes
Thomas F. Glick, Ph.D. 1968, Harvard University, is professor
emeritus of history at Boston University. He is the author of
Islamic and Christian Spain in the Early Middle Ages, 2nd ed.
(Brill, 2005).
Antonio Malpica, Ph.D. 1978, University of Granada, is Professor of
Medieval History at this University. He has published many books
and articles on medieval archaeology and the history of the Nasrid
Kingdom, including La Alhambra, ciudad palatina nazarí (Granada,
2008) and Las últimas tierras de al-Andalus (Granada, 2014).
Félix Retamero, Ph.D. 1998, Autonomus University of Barcelona. He
is a Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at this university. He has
published many works on the Andalusi agricultural landscapes and on
the relation between colonisations and agriculture in the 15th-16th
centuries.
Josep Torró, Ph.D. 1996, University of València, is Reader of
Medieval History at the same University. He has published
monographs, book chapters and articles on the Christian conquest
and colonisation of the kingdom of Valencia.
''El presente libro ofrece una colección de catorce colaboraciones de valor desigual tanto en la calidad como en el enfoque''. Juan Francisco Maura in Bulletin of Spanish Studies 106,4 (2019).
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