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Jews and Christians in Medieval Castile - Tradition, Coexistence, and Change (Paperback)
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Jews and Christians in Medieval Castile - Tradition, Coexistence, and Change (Paperback)
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Jews 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 main power players-the monarchy, the church, and the
towns. In a departure from previous assessments, Soifer Irish shows
that the institutional and legal norms of toleration for the Jewish
minority were forged not along the military frontier with Islam,
but in the north of Castile. She argues that the Jews' relationship
with the Castilian monarchy was by far the most significant factor
that influenced their situation in the kingdom, but also
demonstrates that this relationship was inherently problematic.
Although during the early centuries of Christian expansion the
Jewish communities benefited from a strong royal power, after about
1250 helping maintain it proved to be costly to the Jewish
communities in economic and human terms. Soifer Irish demonstrates
that while some Castilian clergymen were vehemently anti-Jewish,
the Castilian Church as a whole never developed a coordinated
strategy on the Jews, or even showed much interest in the issue.
The opposite is true about the townsmen, whose relations with their
Jewish neighbors vacillated between cooperation and conflict. In
the late thirteenth century, the Crown's heavy-handed tactics in
enforcing the collection of outstanding debts to Jewish
moneylenders led to the breakdown in the negotiations between the
Jewish and Christian communities, creating a fertile ground for the
formation of an anti-Jewish discourse in Castilian towns. Soifer
Irish also examines the Jews' attitudes toward the various powers
in the Christian society and shows that they were active players in
the kingdom's politics. Jews and Christians in Medieval Castile
breaks new ground in helping us understand more fully the tensions,
and commonalities, between groups of different faiths in the late
medieval period.
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