{"product_id":"a-jewish-renaissance-in-fifteenthcentury-spain-9780691146591","title":"A Jewish Renaissance in FifteenthCentury Spain","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRevises 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, this title shows how and why Morvedre's Jewish community revived and flourished in the wake of the violence of 1391.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRunner-Up for the 2005 National Jewish Book Award in History, Jewish Book Council \"In his eloquent style, [Meyerson] highlights the complex inner workings of a multicultural society such as that of medieval Morvedre, and presents a new methodology that other Hispanists should apply to their studies.\"--Choice \"Mark D. Meyerson constructs a subtle understanding of Spain before the Expulsion. He details not only the political relationship between the kings and 'their' Jews, but even more interestingly, the complex relationship between open Jews and the conversos of 1391.\"--Jewish Book World \"Making a signal contribution to our knowledge of the Jews of medieval Spain is surely no easy matter. Mark D. Meyerson has performed precisely such a service in these two valuable volumes. All those concerned with the history of the medieval Iberian peninsula and\/or its Jews are deeply indebted to him.\"--Robert Chazan, Ecclesiastical History \"Elegantly conceived and painstakingly documented, Mark D. Meyerson's A Jewish Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Spain stands as a strong and solid contribution both to medieval Iberian history and Jewish history... Meyerson has given the Jews of Morvedre a historical agency and a uniquely human subjectivity that would otherwise have remained silent.\"--Horacio Chiong Rivero, Sixteenth Century Journal \"This more than authoritative book might not bequeath all the right answers, but it most certainly asks all the right questions.\"--David Marx, davidmarx.co.uk \"This is the most detailed history yet written of any Jewish community in Mediterranean Spain, in the town of Morvedre in the Kingdom of Valencia.\"--GlennW. Olsen, European Legacy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFigures and Maps ix  Acknowledgments xi  Note on Names and Money xiii  Abbreviations xv  Introduction 1  Chapter One  On the Edge of Desolation 22  Chapter Two  Revival in the Shadow of Valencia 65  Chapter Three  Wine, Money,and Mobility 109  Chapter Four  Jews and Muslims 143  Chapter Five  The Politics of Plenty 157  Chapter Six  Converts and Kinsfolk 184  Chapter Seven  Chill Wind from Castile 225  Concluding Remarks 240  Glossary 247  Bibliography 249  Index 263","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403776762199,"sku":"9780691146591","price":28.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691146591.jpg?v=1730484511","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-jewish-renaissance-in-fifteenthcentury-spain-9780691146591","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}