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The Sephardic frontier : the reconquista and the Jewish community in medieval Iberia / Jonathan Ray.

Publication | Library Call Number: DS135.S7 R38 2006

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Series: Conjunctions of religion and power in the medieval past
Conjunctions of religion & power in the medieval past.
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Ray, Jonathan (Jonathan Stewart)
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006
Locale: Spain
Portugal
Language: English
External Link: Electronic version(s) available. Hosted by ProQuest
Table of contents

Physical Description: x, 198 p. : maps, facsim. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The migration of Jewish settlers to the frontier
Jewish landownership
Moneylending and beyond : the Jews in the economic life of the frontier
Royal authority and the legal status of Iberian Jewry
Jewish communal organization and authority
Communal tensions and the question of Jewish autonomy
Maintenance of social boundaries on the Iberian frontier.
ISBN: 0801444012
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Graduate School of the Jewish Theological Seminary, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-194) and index.

The migration of Jewish settlers to the frontier -- Jewish landownership -- Moneylending and beyond : the Jews in the economic life of the frontier -- Royal authority and the legal status of Iberian Jewry -- Jewish communal organization and authority -- Communal tensions and the question of Jewish autonomy -- Maintenance of social boundaries on the Iberian frontier.
Additional Form: Electronic version(s) available internally at USHMM.
Subjects: Jews--Spain--History--To 1500.
Jews--Portugal--History--To 1500.
Spain--Ethnic relations--History.
Portugal--Ethnic relations--History.
Spain--History--711-1516.
Portugal--History--To 1385.
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