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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
2006.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.