Author

Publication

2006 - Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

49,500 words, Guess

Page Count

198 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2005025040
  • Goodreads1071259
  • LibraryThing2018755

Classifications

  • DDC946/.0004924
  • LCCDS135.S7 R38 2006

Description

"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 and peril." "Drawing on a large fund of unpublished material in royal, ecclesiastical, and municipal archives as well as rabbinic literature, Jonathan Ray reveals a fluid, often volatile society that transcended religious boundaries and attracted Jewish colonists from throughout the peninsula and beyond. The result was a wave of Jewish settlements marked by a high degree of openness, mobility, and interaction with both Christians and Muslims."--Jacket.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Conjunction of religion and power in the medieval past

Other Editions

  • The Sephardic frontier: the reconquista and the Jewish community in medieval IberiaCornell University Press2006-01-01

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