La cuestión islámica en el Fuero de Cáceres

Abstract

The Charter of Caceres (family "CoriaCima Coa") constituted a relevant local rule of Lionss Kingdom. It regulated the life of a royal city of Lion in the late Ages. Reconquered to 1229, Caceres occupied a strategic Middle emplacement in the "Route of the Silver", apart from important position of forefront in the Muslim border. In the It does not seem that Islamic population of Caceres had weight in the town. Its Charter forbade freedom and underestimated. It contained three kinds of Muslims: of "lauor", "mierce", and "fonsado". References alluded (implicitly) to the first one, of agrarian profession. The second one had better position. The third one was just appropriated, integrated by Islamic prisoners of campaign and temporarily exchanged for Christian captives. This link explains that the Charter deprive the Moor slave of the legal capacity and the capacity to act. His owner responded of his actions and got compensation, but must pay the cost of damage of his Islamic vassal to a Christian. reconquered squares, religion was an element of social stratification, where lived a Christian majority and a ewishMuslim minority. In spite of his remarkable role in Castile, the latter did not institutionally integrated into the Councils.