“There is war between Christians and Moors and there will be until the Christians have recovered the lands that the Moors have taken from them by force,” prince Juan Manuel (d. 1348) once observed before highlighting the difference between Just War and just plain old jihad: “There would not be war between them on account of religion or sect, because Jesus Christ never ordered that anyone should be killed or forced to accept his religion.”62 As for the popes in Rome, they regularly exhorted the kings of Spain “to expel them [the Muslims] and drive them far from the lands which the Christian
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