The Sephardic frontier

Ray, Jonathan

The Sephardic frontier the reconquista and the Jewish community in medieval Iberia / [electronic resource] : Jonathan Ray. - Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006. - x, 198 p. : maps. - Conjunctions of religion and power in the medieval past . - Conjunctions of religion & power in the medieval past. .

Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Graduate School of the Jewish Theological Seminary, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references 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.


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2013.
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Jews--History.--Spain
Jews--History.--Portugal


Spain--Ethnic relations--History.
Portugal--Ethnic relations--History.
Spain--History--711-1516.
Portugal--History--To 1385.


Electronic books.

DS135.S7 / R38 2006eb

946/.0004924