Contested Treasure: Jews and Authority in the Crown of Aragon 9780271064734

In Contested Treasure, Thomas Barton examines how the Jews in the Crown of Aragon in the twelfth through fourteenth cent

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Contested Treasure: Jews and Authority in the Crown of Aragon
9780271064734

In Contested Treasure, Thomas Barton examines how the Jews in the Crown of Aragon in the twelfth through fourteenth cent

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Astrology in the Middle Ages was considered a branch of the magical arts, one informed by Jewish and Muslim scientific k

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Drawing on an extensive study of the primary sources, Damian Smith explores the relationship between the Roman Curia and

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In the late fourteenth century, the medieval Crown of Aragon experienced a series of food crises that created conflict a

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Between Christian and Jew pivots around the inquisitorial trial of three Jews who were accused in 1341 of persuading Jew

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The Crown of Aragon. A Singular Mediterranean Empire recovers the history of an important late medieval crossroads, that

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Captives and Their Saviors in the Medieval Crown of Aragon argues that by this time the ransoming efforts were on a king

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Drawing on hundreds of unpublished court records, Marie Kelleher examines how women in the fourteenth-century Crown of A

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Sometime in April 1285, five Muslim horsemen crossed from the Islamic kingdom of Granada into the realms of the Christia

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The most devastating attacks against the Jews of medieval Christian Europe took place during the riots that erupted, in

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