Title: The Sephardic frontier
First published: 2006
Description: "No subject looms larger over the historical landscape of medieval Spain than that of the reconquista, the rapid expansion of the power of the Christian kingdoms into the Muslim-populated lands of southern Iberia, which created a broad frontier zone that for two centuries remained a region of warfare and peril." "Drawing on a large fund of unpublished material in royal, ecclesiastical, and municipal archives as well as rabbinic literature, Jonathan Ray reveals a fluid, often volatile society that transcended religious boundaries and attracted Jewish colonists from throughout the peninsula and beyond. The result was a wave of Jewish settlements marked by a high degree of openness, mobility, and interaction with both Christians and Muslims."--Jacket.
Subjects: History, Jews, Ethnic relations, Jews, spain, Jews, history, Jews, portugal, Ethnology, spain, Ethnology, portugal, Spain, history, 711-1516, Portugal, history
Places: Spain, Portugal
Time periods: To 1500, 711-1516, To 1385
LC classification: DS135.S7 R38 2006