Conversos, Inquisition, and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain

by Norman Roth

Book Overview

The Jewish community of medieval Spain was the largest and most important in the West for more than a thousand years, participating fully in cultural and political affairs with Muslim and Christian neighbors. This stable situation began to change in the 1390s, and through the next century hundreds of thousands of Jews converted to Christianity. Norman Roth argues here with detailed documentation that, contrary to popular myth, the conversos were...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299142302
• ISBN13: 9780299142308
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 446 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"