LEADER 04212nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910781339703321 005 20230322095546.0 010 $a0-8014-6826-4 010 $a0-8014-7451-5 010 $a0-8014-6177-4 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801461774 035 $a(CKB)2550000000037756 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000541171 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11385848 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000541171 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10498754 035 $a(PQKB)11063030 035 $a(OCoLC)1016791119 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse58558 035 $a(DE-B1597)503296 035 $a(OCoLC)1076413157 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801461774 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138217 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10471862 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL681690 035 $a(OCoLC)732959299 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138217 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000037756 100 $a20050826d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Sephardic frontier$b[electronic resource] $ethe reconquista and the Jewish community in medieval Iberia /$fJonathan Ray 210 $aIthaca, N.Y. $cCornell University Press$d2006 215 $ax, 198 p. $cmaps 225 1 $aConjunctions of religion and power in the medieval past 300 $aOriginally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Graduate School of the Jewish Theological Seminary, 2002. 311 $a1-322-50408-3 311 $a0-8014-4401-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe migration of Jewish settlers to the frontier -- Jewish landownership -- Moneylending and beyond : the Jews in the economic life of the frontier -- Royal authority and the legal status of Iberian Jewry -- Jewish communal organization and authority -- Communal tensions and the question of Jewish autonomy -- Maintenance of social boundaries on the Iberian frontier. 330 $aNo subject looms larger over the historical landscape of medieval Spain than that of the reconquista, the rapid expansion of the power of the Christian kingdoms into the Muslim-populated lands of southern Iberia, which created a broad frontier zone that for two centuries remained a region of warfare and peril. Drawing on a large fund of unpublished material in royal, ecclesiastical, and municipal archives as well as rabbinic literature, Jonathan Ray reveals a fluid, often volatile society that transcended religious boundaries and attracted Jewish colonists from throughout the peninsula and beyond.The result was a wave of Jewish settlements marked by a high degree of openness, mobility, and interaction with both Christians and Muslims. Ray's view challenges the traditional historiography, which holds that Sephardic communities, already fully developed, were simply reestablished on the frontier. In the early years of settlement, Iberia's crusader kings actively supported Jewish economic and political activity, and Jewish interaction with their Christian neighbors was extensive.Only as the frontier was firmly incorporated into the political life of the peninsular states did these frontier Sephardic populations begin to forge the communal structures that resembled the older Jewish communities of the North and the interior. By the end of the thirteenth century, royal intervention had begun to restrict the amount of contact between Jewish and Christian communities, signaling the end of the open society that had marked the frontier for most of the century. 410 0$aConjunctions of religion & power in the medieval past. 606 $aJews$zSpain$xHistory 606 $aJews$zPortugal$xHistory 607 $aSpain$xEthnic relations$xHistory 607 $aPortugal$xEthnic relations$xHistory 607 $aSpain$xHistory$y711-1516 607 $aPortugal$xHistory$yTo 1385 615 0$aJews$xHistory. 615 0$aJews$xHistory. 676 $a946/.0004924 700 $aRay$b Jonathan$g(Jonathan Stewart)$01394188 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781339703321 996 $aThe Sephardic frontier$93731709 997 $aUNINA