Religious Frontiers and Overlapping Cultural Borders: The Power of Personal and Political Exchanges in the Works of Alfonso X of Castile (1252–1284)
Antonella Liuzzo Scorpo
Religious beliefs and creeds have contributed to define identities a sense of belonging for both individuals entire communities over the centuries, generating in some cases unsurpassable social barriers. This also applied situation Iberian Peninsula Middle Ages: melting pot within which Muslims, Christians Jews interacted, not always without animosity friction. The questions I endeavour answer this study are how did Christian powers consider interact with Muslim rulers subjects? What were motivations behind agreement such relationships? To what extent they morally officially accepted? differences, if any, from customary vassal bonds? These main objects scrutiny my analysis will focus on fragile borders existed between personal political inter-faith relationships, examined through perspective historiographical poetic production attributed scriptorium Alfonso X Castile (1252–1284).
Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean