Islamic-European Confrontation: Colonialist Transition in Frontier Kingdom of Valencia 1238-1300

FAIN: RO-10815-71

UCLA; Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA 90024-4201)
Robert I. Burns (Project Director: January 1971 to present)

Third-stage of research on the intermixed Christian-Muslim society of the crusader kingdom of Valencia (1238-1300). Its proto-colonialist European minority and its dissident, progressively acculturated Muslim majority provide instructive patterns both in the evolution of each group and in theri inter-"racial" or ethnic relationships. Harvard Press published in 2 vols. The prize-winning 1st phase of the trilogy and has a 2 vol. companion stage in press. The culminating phase will insolate the immigrant, colonial society itself, fashioning a comprehensive archival study of the social, economic, political and ideological transfer of forms and control.