Jews and Christians in Medieval Castile Ryane McAuliffe Straus Gorbachev and Shevardnadze

Gorbachev and Shevardnadze

Whether he is writing stiletto-sharp flash fiction or a novella-length historical drama

Taking a generational view and using longitudinal studies of some of the major political players of the era

and Ursula Smartt unmasks the mysteries and lays bare the complexities of law like few other writers on the subject

Jews and Christians in Medieval Castile Ryane McAuliffe Straus Gorbachev and ShevardnadzeJews and Christians in Medieval Castile examines the changes in Jewish Christian relations in the Iberian kingdom of Castile during the pivotal period of the reconquest and the hundred years that followed the end of its most active phase (eleventh to mid fourteenth century). The study's focus on the Christian heartland north of the Duero River, known as Old Castile, allows for a detailed investigation of the Jews' changing relations with the area's