Medieval studies. From: Michigan Academician | Date: January 1, 2008 | COPYRIGHT 2008 Michigan Academy of Science Arts & Letters. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Admiracion operum Dey: Con/Sub/version in the Text of Teresa de Cartagena. Norma H. Richardson, Central Michigan University, Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859

Within the span of a century, from the first anti-Semitic pogroms in 1391 to the reconquest of Moorish territory and the expulsion of unconverted Jews in 1492, a centralized Spanish government coalesced under Isabella of Castilla and Fernando of Aragon, the Catholic Monarchs. It is estimated that while two hundred thousand Jews left Spain, some fifty thousand became "new ...

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