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This book treats the tumultuous history of the Jews in the colonial kingdom of Valencia through focusing on one town, Morvedre. Based on archival sources, it explores the Jews' activities as settlers and officials, their role in the new kingdom's economic development, and their rapidly changing relations with the Christian conquerors and the subject Muslims. It dissects the Jewish community's internal social and political struggles while it dealt with the monarchy's heavy fiscal demands. It also considers the controversies surrounding Jewish moneylending and the Jews' embattled position during the rebellions and wars that rocked the kingdom in the fourteenth century. The book is important for students of Jewish history, Spanish history, and interfaith relations in the Middle Ages.
Price: $187.00
Pages: 308
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
09 April 2004
ISBN: 9789004137394
Format: Hardcover
"...impressive and pathbreaking book ... a major contribution to the field, providing new understandings and interpretations of the position of Jews in late-medieval Spain and western Europe." – Teofilo F. Ruiz, in: Speculum, 2005
"The study contributes significantly to a large body of literature on intermediaries, economic and cultural change, and Spanish economic and cultural history." – B. Weinstein, in: Choice, 2005
"The study contributes significantly to a large body of literature on intermediaries, economic and cultural change, and Spanish economic and cultural history." – B. Weinstein, in: Choice, 2005
Mark D. Meyerson, Ph.D. (1987), University of Toronto, is Associate Professor of History and Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. His publications include The Muslims of Valencia in the Age of Fernando and Isabel (University of California Press, 1991), and A Jewish Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Spain (Princeton University Press, 2004).