The Victors and the Vanquished: Christians and Muslims of Catalonia and Aragon, 1050-1300

This revisionary study of Muslims living under Christian rule during the Spanish reconquest delves into the subtleties of identity under the thirteenth-century Crown rule of Aragon. Brian Catlos uncovers a social dynamic in which sectarian differences comprise only one of the many factors in the causal complex of political, economic and cultural reactions. Beginning with the final stage of independent Muslim rule in the Ebro valley region, he traces the subtle and often surprising transformation of Islamic society into mudéjar society under Christian domination.

Author: Brian A. Catlos
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 05/01/2007
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.54lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 1.07d
ISBN: 9780521036443

About the Author
Catlos, Brian A.: - Brian Catlos is an Associate Professor in the Religious Studies faculty at the University of Colorado, Boulder, with cross appointments in Humanities, History and Jewish Studies. Previously an Associate Professor of History at the University of California, he completed his PhD in Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto in 2000, followed by three years of postdoctoral work at the Concejo de Investigaciones Superiores in Barcelona and the Institute for Medieval History at Boston University. He has served as President of the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain and is Book Review Editor (late medieval) for Speculum. His fields of research include medieval Spain and the Mediterranean, and ethno-religious identity and relations in the pre-modern Christian and Islamic worlds.

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