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The Jews of Navarre in the Late Middle Ages
Most of the book deals with Jewish communal life in Navarre. Ch. 6 (pp. 131-147), "From Tolerance to Expulsion", relates that although in the 13th-14th centuries Navarre welcomed Jews driven out of Aquitaine and France, from the mid-14th century a change in the mentality of various segments of society became evident, and little by little intolerance took over. Popular animosity arose in advance of royal measures or in conjunction with them, sometimes giving rise to ecclesiastical measures. Gives examples of accusations brought against Jews, restrictions placed upon them, and the animosity toward Conversos. The Jews were expelled in 1498 due to pressure of the Catholic Monarchs on the sovereigns Jean and Catherine. Pp. 149-249 contain documents.
A Man of Three Worlds
In the late fifteenth century, many of the Jews expelled from Spain made their way to Morocco and established a dynamic community in Fez. A number of Jewish families became prominent in commerce and public life there. Among the Jews of Fez of Hispanic origin was Samuel Pallache, who served the Moroccan sultan as a commercial and diplomatic agent in Holland until Pallache's death in 1616. Before that, he had tried to return with his family to Spain, and to this end he tried to convert to Catholicism and worked as an informer, intermediary, and spy in Moroccan affairs for the Spanish court. Later he became a privateer against Spanish ships and was tried in London for that reason. His religious...
Sephardic Studies in the University
Nevertheless, the teaching of Sephardic civilization was incomplete and Eurocentric, with the Jews of Islam, an ongoing entity for over a thousand years, scarcely figuring in any course offerings.
Chaucer and the Jews : Sources, Contexts, Meanings
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Popes, Church, and Jews in the Middle Ages
The theme uniting the essays reprinted here is the attitude of the medieval Church, and in particular the papacy, toward the Jewish population of Western Europe. Papal consistency, sometimes sorely tried, in observing the canons and the principles announced by St Paul - that Jews were to be a permanent, if disturbing, part of Christian life - helped balance the anxiety felt by members of the Church. Clerics especially feared what they called Jewish pollution. These themes are the focus of the studies in the first part of this volume. Those in the second part explore aspects of Jewish society and family life, as both were shaped by medieval realities.
Beatrice
“Non era nuda ma era come se qualcosa me la facesse vedere dentro. Il modo in cui parlava, le parole e il tono che usava. Mostrava davvero grande intelligenza e cultura; molta più di quanto ne mostrasse a lavoro. Era come se ogni giorno, in quel posto pieno di uomini, lei controllasse o filtrasse qualsiasi pensiero, prima di esprimerlo a parole. Ecco, questa volta non aveva freni e a me sembrava che i suoi capelli davvero iniziassero a prendere vita come i serpenti dell’immagine di Medusa che avevo incrociato poco prima”. Nella Londra di inizio Novecento si intrecciano le vite di Beatrice Lynn e John Leroy: lei è il nuovo direttore di una grande editoria, donna coraggiosa ed emancipa...
The Sephardic Frontier
Reveals a fluid, often volatile society that transcended religious boundaries and attracted Jewish colonists from throughout the peninsula and beyond.
Beyond Faith: Belief, Morality and Memory in a Fifteenth-Century Judeo-Iberian Manuscript
In Beyond Faith: Belief, Morality and Memory in a Fifteenth-Century Judeo-Iberian Manuscript, Michelle M. Hamilton sheds light on the concerns of Jewish and converso readers of the generation before the Expulsion. Using a mid-fifteenth-century collection of Iberian vernacular literary, philosophical and religious texts (MS Parm. 2666) recorded in Hebrew characters as a lens, Hamilton explores how its compiler or compilers were forging a particular form of personal, individual religious belief, based not only on the Judeo-Andalusi philosophical tradition of medieval Iberia, but also on the Latinate humanism of late 14th and early 15th-century Europe. The form/s such expressions take reveal the contingent and specific engagement of learned Iberian Jews and conversos with the larger Iberian, European and Arab Mediterranean cultures of the 15th-century.
