Glossary and Abbreviations

 Introduction

Part One. The Irrigation Communities of Medieval Valencia

 Chapter 1 : The Huerta Environment
 Chapter 2 : Irrigation Communities and Their Administration
 Chapter 3 : Intracommunity Conflict and Its Resolution
 Chapter 4 : The City's Role in Irrigation Development
 Chapter 5 : The Search for New Sources of Water
 Chapter 6 : Regional Arrangements
 Chapter 7 : The Huerta in Crisis

 Chapter 8 : Arabs, Romans, or Christians? The Historiography of Spanish Irrigation in the Nineteenth Century
 Chapter 9 : the Classical Inheritance
 Chapter 10 : Irrigation Administration in Al-Andalus: The Sâhib al-Sâqiya
 Chapter 11 : Proportional Distribution and the Measuring of Water
 Chapter 12 : The Imprint of Islam upon the Terminology of Irrigation
 Chapter 13 : Image and Reality of Cultural Change

1. Municipal Provisions for Road Maintenance, 1396
2. Irrigation of Vineyards
3. Crop Priorities in Time of Drought, 1376
4. Regulations of the Water Company of Benidorm
5. Rainfall and Temperature in Valencia
6. Droughts and Floods in Medieval Valencia
7. Plans for Hydraulic Wheel in Valencia to Irrigate Garden of Lonja, 1529
8. Division of the Barada River in 124 H. (742/743 A.D.)

Maps:

1.Frontispiece: Northern Kingdom of Valencia
2. The huerta of Valencia
3. The Royal Canal of the Júcar
4. Alicante and Murcia
5.  Location of current wheels in the Iberian Peninsula (after Julio Caro Baroja, "Norias, azudas, aceñas," Revista de dialectologia y tradiciones populares, 10 [1954], 157)
6. Qadus-chain hydraulic wheels in Portugal (after Jorge Dias and Fernando Galhano, Aparelhos de elevar a água de rega [Oporto, 1953], 168)
7. Diffusion of qanat Technology

1. Irrigated fields on the Favara Canal  Valencia, drawn by the surveyor Juan Bautista Alvarez, eighteenth century (manuscript, Archive of the Cathedral of Valencia)
2. Irrigated fields on the Benifurt canal , Játvia, eighteenth century (manuscript, Archive of the Cathedral of Valencia)
3. A divisor of the Tormos canal Valencia (photograph by J. Cabrelles Sigüenza, Valencia)
4. Drought of May 1374-July 1376 & the drought of October 1412-October 1415
5. Diagram of a typical qanat (from Paul Ward English, City and Village in Iran [Madison: University of Wisconsin Press; (c) 1966 by the regents of the University of Wisconsin], p. 31)
6. Archeological levels of the city of Valencia (after Nicolau Primitiu, "D'Arqueologia: excavacions de Valencia," Anales del Centro de Cultura Valenciana, 4 [1931], 156)

1. Crops mentioned in fine-books
2. Crops in fine-books by month
3. Fallow and stubble in fine-books by month
4. Misdemeanors by category
5. Accuser and charges
6. Initiators of actions
7. Value of irrigation fines
8. Repeaters in misdemeanors
9. Fines against Francis Agramunt (1443)
10. Fines against Pere Mut (1443)
11. Fines against Pere Veciano (1443)
12. Fines against Jacme Galceran (1443)
13. Fines against Asmet Bocaxo (1486)
14. Charges brought by and fines against Pere Johan (1486)
15. Fines against Lorenç Gasquo (1486)
16. Fines against Berthomeu Loqular (1486)
17. Distribution of fines by months and quarters
18. Division of the Mijares River in 1346
19. Fila allotments of the canals of the huerta of Valencia