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Diverse case studies reveal that the monarchy’s Jewish policy emerged slowly, faced considerable resistance, and witnessed limited application within numerous localities under nonroyal control, thus allowing for more highly differentiated local modes of Jewish administration and coexistence. Contested Treasure refines and complicates our portrait of interfaith relations and the limits of royal authority in medieval Spain, and it presents a new approach to the study of ethnoreligious relations and administrative history in medieval European society.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53139653853457,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53139654213905,"sku":"NGR9780271064727","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780271064727.jpg?v=1771505095"},{"product_id":"contested-treasure-book-thomas-w-barton-9780271064734","title":"Contested Treasure","description":"Examines how the Jews in the Crown of Aragon in the twelfth through fourteenth centuries negotiated the overlapping jurisdictions and power relations of local lords and the crown.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53181248700689,"sku":"NLS9780271064734","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53578649075985,"sku":"NGR9780271064734","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780271064734.jpg?v=1772237267"},{"product_id":"constructing-christendom-book-thomas-w-barton-9781512829808","title":"Constructing Christendom","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn examination of how church leaders partnered with lay rulers to integrate lands conquered from the Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula from the ninth through the fourteenth centuries\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eConstructing Christendom\u003c\/i\u003e, Thomas W. Barton examines how church leaders partnered with lay rulers to integrate lands conquered from the Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula from the ninth through the fourteenth centuries. In tracing the intricate developmental histories of a cluster of competitive neighboring bishoprics, Barton reveals how rival factions fought over new territory by asserting that it belonged to their foundations according to ancient precedent. Wielding self-interested, manipulated recollections of the organization of the Visigothic church that had predated the eighth-century Muslim conquest did more than further these local territorial battles; it helped promote a shared revisionist Christian historical vision that delegitimized non-Christian rule and emphasized the elemental, divinely ordained centrality of papal authority.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Based on over a decade of research and drawing on documentation from numerous underutilized local archives, \u003ci\u003eConstructing Christendom\u003c\/i\u003e presents the unwritten histories of these foundations to demonstrate how such local efforts to expand Latin Christendom's frontiers and establish or enlarge dioceses came to be associated with the reordering of the ecclesiastical hierarchy and the solidification of a cohesive European Christian identity. Despite the persistence of some unique features deriving from the formational histories of these frontier bishoprics, the overarching trend, Barton finds, was toward gradual homogenization, as dioceses on Christendom's periphery and established ones situated closer to its core increasingly came to resemble one another in terms of their administrative and cultural attributes and relationships to papacy-centric governance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53385261875473,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53385262891281,"sku":"NGR9781512829808","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-thomas-w-barton.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}