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Book SynopsisIn 1496-7, King Manuel I of Portugal forced the Jews of his kingdom to convert to Christianity and expelled all his Muslim subjects. Portugal was the first kingdom of the Iberian Peninsula to end definitively Christian-Jewish-Muslim coexistence, creating an exclusively Christian realm. Drawing upon narrative and documentary sources in Portuguese, Spanish and Hebrew, this book pieces together the developments that led to the events of 1496-7 and presents a detailed reconstruction of the persecution. It challenges widely held views concerning the impact of the arrival in Portugal of the Jews expelled from Castile in 1492, the diplomatic wrangling that led to the forced conversion of the Portuguese Jews in 1497 and the causes behind the expulsion of the Muslim minority. Originally published in hardcover
Trade Review"a thoroughly researched work that makes use of a variety of sources in several languages, including Latin, Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish and Portuguese. I found it generally persuasive and certainly an important contribution to the fields of Portuguese, Jewish and Islamic history", Ariel Hessayon review in Reviews in History (review no. 797), URL: http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/paper/hessayona.html
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes for Readers: Names, Dates and Currency Abbreviations List of Plates Introduction 1: The Jewish and Muslim Minorities in Medieval Portugal 2: Castilian Conversos and Jews in Portugal c.1480-c.1495 3: The Death of João II and the Accession of Manuel I 4: The “General Conversion” of the Jews and Renewal of the “Converso Problem” 5: The Expulsion of the Muslims from Portugal: the Forgotten Persecution Conclusion Bibliography Index
