A Jewish Renaissance In Fifteenth Century Spain
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A Jewish Renaissance In Fifteenth Century Spain
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Author : Mark D. Meyerson
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-02-09
A Jewish Renaissance In Fifteenth Century Spain written by Mark D. Meyerson and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-09 with History categories.
This book significantly revises the conventional view that the Jewish experience in medieval Spain--over the century before the expulsion of 1492--was one of despair, persecution, and decline. Focusing on the town of Morvedre in the kingdom of Valencia, Mark Meyerson shows how and why Morvedre's Jewish community revived and flourished in the wake of the horrible violence of 1391. Drawing on a wide array of archival documentation, including Spanish Inquisition records, he argues that Morvedre saw a Jewish "renaissance." Meyerson shows how the favorable policies of kings and of town government yielded the Jewish community's demographic expansion and prosperity. Of crucial importance were new measures that ceased the oppressive taxation of the Jews and minimized their role as moneylenders. The results included a reversal of the credit relationship between Jews and Christians, a marked amelioration of Christian attitudes toward Jews, and greater economic diversification on the part of Jews. Representing a major contribution to debates over the Inquisition's origins and the expulsion of the Jews, the book also offers the first extended analysis of Jewish-converso relations at the local level, showing that Morvedre's Jews expressed their piety by assisting Valencia's conversos. Comparing Valencia with other regions of Spain and with the city-states of Renaissance Italy, it makes clear why this kingdom and the town of Morvedre were so ripe for a Jewish revival in the fifteenth century.
The Origins Of The Inquisition In Fifteenth Century Spain
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Author : Benzion Netanyahu
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2001
The Origins Of The Inquisition In Fifteenth Century Spain written by Benzion Netanyahu and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
The Spanish Inquisition remains a fearful symbol of state terror. Its principal target was theconversos, descendants of Spanish Jews who had been forced to convert to Christianity some three generations earlier. Since thousands of them confessed to charges of practicing Judaism in secret, historians have long understood the Inquisition as an attempt to suppress the Jews of Spain. In this magisterial reexamination of the origins of the Inquisition, Netanyahu argues for a different view: that the conversos were in fact almost all genuine Christians who were persecuted for political ends. The Inquisition's attacks not only on the conversos' religious beliefs but also on their "impure blood" gave birth to an anti-Semitism based on race that would have terrible consequences for centuries to come. This book has become essential reading and an indispensable reference book for both the interested layman and the scholar of history and religion.
Jews In An Iberian Frontier Kingdom
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Author : Mark D. Meyerson
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2004-01-01
Jews In An Iberian Frontier Kingdom written by Mark D. Meyerson and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-01 with History categories.
This book explores the history of a Jewish community in the colonial kingdom of Valencia in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. It sheds new light on Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations and on the social, economic, and political life of medieval Jews.
The Hebrew Bible In Fifteenth Century Spain
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Author : Jonathan Decter
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2012-06-22
The Hebrew Bible In Fifteenth Century Spain written by Jonathan Decter and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-22 with Religion categories.
The Hebrew Bible in Fifteenth-Century Spain: Exegesis, Literature, Philosophy, and the Arts investigates the relationship between the Bible and the cultural production of Iberian societies between the anti-Jewish riots of 1391 and the Expulsion of 1492. During this turbulent and transformative period, the Bible intersected with virtually all aspects of late medieval Iberian culture: its languages of expression, its material and artistic production, and its intellectual output in literary, philosophical, exegetic, and polemical spheres. The articles in this cross-cultural and interdisciplinary volume present instantiations of the Hebrew Bible’s deployment in textual and visual forms on diverse subjects (messianic exegesis, polemics, converso liturgy, Bible translation, conversion narrative, etc.) and utilize a broad range of methodological approaches (from classical philology to Derridian analysis).
The Marranos Of Spain
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Author : Benzion Netanyahu
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 1999
The Marranos Of Spain written by Benzion Netanyahu and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
Analyzes the degree of assimilation of the Spanish Conversos based on Jewish perceptions as reflected in responsa and in polemical and exegetical Jewish literature of the time (1391-1481). Rejects the present-day view that many Conversos were Judaizers, arguing that, on the contrary, most of them were at different stages of assimilation and Christianization and were even tinged with anti-Judaism. Stresses that in fact the majority of the Spanish Jewish community converted (forcibly or not), and the remaining Jews, a minority, felt uncertainty as to the Jewishness of the Conversos, considering as a crypto-Jew (or "anuss") only a Converso who respected Jewish precepts in private and who tried to leave Spain in order to return to Judaism. The fact that most Conversos did neither shows that most of them abandoned Judaism, and that the Inquisition's persecution campaign was held not on religious but on racial and political grounds, meant to destroy a successfully competing social group.
The Vale Of Cedars
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Author : Grace Aguilar
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-01-14
The Vale Of Cedars written by Grace Aguilar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-14 with categories.
The Vale of Cedars is the retreat of a Jewish family, compelled by persecution to perform their religious rites with the utmost secrecy. On the singular position of this fated race in the most Catholic land of Europe, the interest of the tale mainly depends; whilst a few glimpses of the horrors of the terrible Inquisition are afforded the reader, and heighten the interest of the narrative.Excerpt from The Vale of Cedars: His father and four brothers had fallen in battle at Margaret's side. Himself and a twin brother, when scarcely fifteen, were taken prisoners at Tewkesbury, and for three years left to languish in prison. Wishing to conciliate the still powerful family of Stanley, Edward offered the youths liberty and honor if they would swear allegiance to himself. They refused peremptorily; and with a refinement of cruelty more like Richard of Gloucester than himself, Edward ordered one to the block, the other to perpetual imprisonment. They drew lots, and Edwin Stanley perished. Arthur, after an interval, succeeded in effecting his escape, and fled from England, lingered in Provence a few months, and then unable to bear an inactive life, hastened to the Court of Arragon; to the heir apparent of which, he bore letters of introduction, from men of rank and influence, and speedily distinguished himself in the wars then agitating Spain.
The Hebrew Bible In Fifteenth Century Spain
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Author : Jonathan Decter
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2012-06-22
The Hebrew Bible In Fifteenth Century Spain written by Jonathan Decter and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-22 with Religion categories.
The articles of this volume present instantiations of the Hebrew Bible’s deployment in textual and visual forms by Iberian Jewish, Christian and converso exegetes, translators, philosophers, artists, and literary authors between the anti-Jewish riots of 1391 and the Expulsion of 1492.
From Tolerance To Tyranny
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Author : Erna Paris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
From Tolerance To Tyranny written by Erna Paris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Jews categories.
Toward The Inquisition
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Author : Benzion Netanyahu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Toward The Inquisition written by Benzion Netanyahu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
B. Netanyahu revolutionized accepted belief concerning the causes of the Spanish Inquisition in his volume of 1995, The Origins of the Inquisition. Toward the Inquisition is another major contribution to this historiographic revolution. Made up of seven of Netanyahu's essays, published over the last two decades and collected here for the first time, it further illuminates Jewish and Marrano history from the mid-fourteenth century to the end of the fifteenth. Forming as they do a unified whole, the essays are provocative and boldly interpretive, yet meticulously documented from a wealth of sources. The essays throw light on such long-obscured phenomena as the rise of the Nazi-like theory of race which harassed the conversos for three full centuries, or the abandonment of Judaism by most conversos decades before the Inquisition was established.
Jewish Multiglossia
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Author : Elaine Rebecca Miller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Jewish Multiglossia written by Elaine Rebecca Miller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Foreign Language Study categories.