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

No subject looms larger over the historical landscape of medieval Spain than that of the reconquista, the rapid expansion of the power of the Christian kingdoms into the Muslim-populated lands of southern Iberia, which created a broad frontier zone that for two centuries remained a region of warfare...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ray, Jonathan (Jonathan Stewart) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006.
Colección:Conjunctions of religion & power in the medieval past.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.