Paola Tartakoff

Between Christian and Jew

Conversion and Inquisition in the Crown of Aragon, 1250-1391

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Between Christian and Jew pivots around the inquisitorial trial of three Jews who were accused in 1341 of persuading Jewish apostates to return to Judaism and die as martyrs. This cultural history explores the worlds of Jews, Jewish converts, and medieval inquisitors as they intersected in northern Iberia in the Crown of Aragon.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 68g
• ISBN-13: 9780812244212
• ISBN-10: 0812244214
• Artikelnr.: 35053891

Autorenporträt

Paola Tartakoff

Inhaltsangabe

Note on Names, Money, Terminology, and Transliterations
Map 1
Map 2
Map 3
Introduction
PART I. BEFORE THE TRIBUNAL
Four Arrests
Chapter 1. Defending the Faith: Medieval Inquisitors and the Prosecution of
Jews and Converts
Chapter 2. From Resistance to Surrender: Jewish Responses to Inquisitorial
Prosecution
Four Condemnations
PART II. AT THE FONT OF NEW LIFE
Alatzar and Abadia, Baptized
Chapter 3. Between Doubt and Desire: Jewish Conversion, Converts, and
Christian Society
Chapter 4. Homeward Bound: The Fates of Jewish Converts
Two Converts, Repentant
PART III. BY THE FIRE
The Intervention
Chapter 5. Apostasy as Scourge: Jews and the Repudiation of Apostates
Chapter 6. Recruiting Repentance: The Re-Judaization of Apostates
The Road to the Stake
Conclusion
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments