Between "Tyranny" and "Gentleness": The Construction of Fernando III and Christian Kings in Arabic-Islamic Sources.
This article examines the construction of the memory of Fernando III of Castile-León in Arabic-Islamic texts in order to explore the cross-cultural geopolitics of the western Mediterranean. It argues that historiographical attempts to define righteous authority transcended religious affiliation amon...
| Publicado en: | Medieval Encounters Vol. 28; no. 1; pp. 1 - 33 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2022
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