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

Ray, Jonathan (Jonathan Stewart).

The Sephardic frontier : the reconquista and the Jewish community in medieval Iberia / Jonathan Ray. - Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, c2006. - x, 198 p. 24 cm. - Cornell paperbacks. Conjunctions of religion and power in the medieval past . - Cornell paperbacks. Conjunctions of religion & power in the medieval past. .

Originally published: 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. The Jewish settler and the frontier. 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.

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Jews--History.--Spain
Jews--History.--Portugal
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Spain--Ethnic relations--History.
Portugal--Ethnic relations--History.
Spain--History--711-1516.
Portugal--History--To 1385.
Judíos--Historia.--España
JJudíos--Historia.--Portugal

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