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.