A Jewish Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Spain

(Part of the Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World Series)

by Mark D. Meyerson

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This book significantly revises the conventional view that the Jewish experience in medieval Spain--over the century before the expulsion of 1492--was one of despair, persecution, and decline. Focusing on the town of Morvedre in the kingdom of Valencia, Mark Meyerson shows how and why Morvedre's Jewish community revived and flourished in the wake of the horrible violence of 1391. Drawing on a wide array of archival documentation, including Spanish...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0691146594

ISBN13:9780691146591

Release Date:January 2010

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:296 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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