A Jewish Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Spain
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
A Jewish Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Spain
By (Author) Mark D. Meyerson
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
6th April 2010
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Social groups: religious groups and communities
946.02
Runner-up for National Jewish Book Award for Jewish History 2005
Physical Properties
Paperback
296
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
397g
Description
Revises 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.
Reviews
Runner-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
Author Bio
Mark D. Meyerson is Associate Professor in the Department of History and Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. He is the author of "The Muslims of Valencia in the Age of Fernando and Isabel."
