Negotiating Cultures: Bilingual Surrender Treaties in Muslim-Crusader Spain under James the Conqueror

by Robert Ignatius Burns

Recently recovered Arabic-Latinate interlinear treaties, between James the Conqueror of Arago-Catalonia and the Muslims of Mediterranean Spain, illumine that hard-fought crusade (1225-1276), its many Islamic and European contexts, and the radically opposed mentalities involved.

Leather Bound

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Robert I. Burns, entered the Society of Jesus in August 1940.
PhD medieval history, summa, 1958 at Johns Hopkins University.
Author of some 30 books on history.