Author: Yitzhak BaerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
A History of the Jews in Christian Spain: From the fourteenth century to the expulsion
Author: Yitzhak BaerA Jewish Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Spain
Author: Mark D. MeyersonPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400832586
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
This book significantly revises the conventional view that the Jewish experience in medieval Spain--over the century before the expulsion of 1492--was one of despair, persecution, and decline. Focusing on the town of Morvedre in the kingdom of Valencia, Mark Meyerson shows how and why Morvedre's Jewish community revived and flourished in the wake of the horrible violence of 1391. Drawing on a wide array of archival documentation, including Spanish Inquisition records, he argues that Morvedre saw a Jewish "renaissance." Meyerson shows how the favorable policies of kings and of town government yielded the Jewish community's demographic expansion and prosperity. Of crucial importance were new measures that ceased the oppressive taxation of the Jews and minimized their role as moneylenders. The results included a reversal of the credit relationship between Jews and Christians, a marked amelioration of Christian attitudes toward Jews, and greater economic diversification on the part of Jews. Representing a major contribution to debates over the Inquisition's origins and the expulsion of the Jews, the book also offers the first extended analysis of Jewish-converso relations at the local level, showing that Morvedre's Jews expressed their piety by assisting Valencia's conversos. Comparing Valencia with other regions of Spain and with the city-states of Renaissance Italy, it makes clear why this kingdom and the town of Morvedre were so ripe for a Jewish revival in the fifteenth century.
Jews in An Iberian Frontier Kingdom
Author: Mark MeyersonPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047404939
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
This book explores the history of a Jewish community in the colonial kingdom of Valencia in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. It sheds new light on Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations and on the social, economic, and political life of medieval Jews.
A History of the Jewish People
Author: Max Leopold MargolisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
Art of Estrangement
Author: Pamela Anne PattonPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271053836
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
"Examines the influential role of visual images in reinforcing the efforts of Spain's Christian-ruled kingdoms to renegotiate the role of their Jewish minority following the territorial expansions of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries"--Provided by publisher.
A History of the Jews in Christian Spain: From the age of reconquest to the fourteenth century
Author: Yitzhak BaerThe Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy
Author: Daniel H. FrankPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521655743
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Publisher Description
Jews and Judaism in World History
Author: Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113518965X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 2, The Hellenistic Age
Author: William David DaviesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521219297
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
Vol. 4 covers the late Roman period to the rise of Islam. Focuses especially on the growth and development of rabbinic Judaism and of the major classical rabbinic sources such as the Mishnah, Jerusalem Talmud, Babylonian Talmud and various Midrashic collections.
Communities of Violence
Author: David NirenbergPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691165769
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
In the wake of modern genocide, we tend to think of violence against minorities as a sign of intolerance, or, even worse, a prelude to extermination. Violence in the Middle Ages, however, functioned differently, according to David Nirenberg. In this provocative book, he focuses on specific attacks against minorities in fourteenth-century France and the Crown of Aragon (Aragon, Catalonia, and Valencia). He argues that these attacks--ranging from massacres to verbal assaults against Jews, Muslims, lepers, and prostitutes--were often perpetrated not by irrational masses laboring under inherited ideologies and prejudices, but by groups that manipulated and reshaped the available discourses on minorities. Nirenberg shows that their use of violence expressed complex beliefs about topics as diverse as divine history, kinship, sex, money, and disease, and that their actions were frequently contested by competing groups within their own society. Nirenberg's readings of archival and literary sources demonstrates how violence set the terms and limits of coexistence for medieval minorities. The particular and contingent nature of this coexistence is underscored by the book's juxtapositions--some systematic (for example, that of the Crown of Aragon with France, Jew with Muslim, medieval with modern), and some suggestive (such as African ritual rebellion with Catalan riots). Throughout, the book questions the applicability of dichotomies like tolerance versus intolerance to the Middle Ages, and suggests the limitations of those analyses that look for the origins of modern European persecutory violence in the medieval past.