The Sephardic frontier the reconquista and the Jewish community in medieval Iberia /
Jonathan Ray.
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, (c)2006.
- 1 online resource (x, 198 pages) : maps
- Conjunctions of religion and power in the medieval past .
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Graduate School of the Jewish Theological Seminary, 2002.
Includes bibliographies and index.
The 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.