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Author Cohen, Jeremy, author

Title A historian in exile : Solomon ibn Verga, Shevet Yehudah, and the Jewish-Christian encounter
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 248 pages)
Series Jewish Culture and Contexts
Jewish culture and contexts.
Contents Religious debate and disputation -- Tortosa -- Talmud and talmudists -- Anti-Jewish libels -- Martyrs and martyrdom -- Conversos and conversion -- The author and his work: purpose and structure
Summary In A Historian in Exile, Jeremy Cohen shows how Solomon ibn Verga's Shevet Yehudah bridges the divide between the medieval and early modern periods, reflecting a contemporary consciousness that a new order had begun to replace the old
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-234) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Religious disputations -- Iberian Peninsula -- Early works to 1800
Jews -- Persecutions -- Iberian Peninsula -- Early works to 1800
Blood accusation -- Iberian Peninsula -- Early works to 1800
Jews -- Iberian Peninsula -- History -- 14th century
Jews -- Iberian Peninsula -- History -- 15th century
Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity.
Christianity and other religions -- Judaism.
Jews -- Historiography
HISTORY -- Europe -- Spain & Portugal.
HISTORY -- Jewish.
HISTORY -- Medieval.
Blood accusation
Christianity
Interfaith relations
Jews
Jews -- Historiography
Jews -- Persecutions
Judaism
Religious disputations
Europe -- Iberian Peninsula
Genre/Form Early works
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780812248586
0812248589
9780812293272
0812293274