The Mercenary Mediterranean

The Mercenary Mediterranean
Author: Hussein Fancy
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2016-03-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 022632964X

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Over the course of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the Christian kings of Aragon recruited thousands of foreign Muslim soldiers to serve in their armies and as members of their royal courts. Based on extensive research in Arabic, Latin and Romance sources, 'The Mercenary Mediterranean' explores this little-known and misunderstood history.


The Mercenary Mediterranean
Language: en
Pages: 329
Authors: Hussein Fancy
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-22 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Over the course of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the Christian kings of Aragon recruited thousands of foreign Muslim soldiers to serve in their armie
The Mercenary Mediterranean
Language: en
Pages: 329
Authors: Hussein Fancy
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-22 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Sometime in April 1285, five Muslim horsemen crossed from the Islamic kingdom of Granada into the realms of the Christian Crown of Aragon to meet with the king
Mediterranean Winter
Language: en
Pages: 236
Authors: Robert D. Kaplan
Categories: Travel
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-11-23 - Publisher: Random House

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In Mediterranean Winter, Robert D. Kaplan, the bestselling author of Balkan Ghosts and Eastward to Tartary, relives an austere, haunting journey he took as a yo
Mercenaries
Language: en
Pages: 294
Authors: Col. Michael Lee Lanning
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-12-18 - Publisher: Presidio Press

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SOLDIERS OF $$ Privateers, contract killers, corporate warriors. Contract soldiers go by many names, but they all have one thing in common: They fight for money
My Friend the Mercenary
Language: en
Pages: 541
Authors: James Brabazon
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-03-01 - Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

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“Intensely vivid story of war and the peculiar breed of warriors who fight in 21st-century Africa . . . and tribute to an extraordinary comrade-at-arms.” �