Between Christian and Jew: Conversion and Inquisition in the Crown of Aragon, 1250-1391 Tartakoff Paola
Between Christian and Jew: Conversion and Inquisition in the Crown of Aragon, 1250-1391 Tartakoff Paola In 1341 in Aragon, a Jewish convert to Christianity was sentenced to death, only to be pulled…
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Between Christian and Jew: Conversion and Inquisition in the Crown of Aragon, 1250-1391 Tartakoff Paola
In 1341 in Aragon, a Jewish convert to Christianity was sentenced to death, only to be pulled from the burning stake and into a formal religious interrogation. His claims were corroborated by witnesses and became the catalyst for a series of trials that unfolded over the course of the next twenty months. His confession was as astonishing to his inquisitors as his brush with mortality is to us: the condemned man described a Jewish conspiracy to persuade recent converts to denounce their newfound Christian faith.
The trials also serve as the backbone of her nuanced consideration of Jewish conversion to Christianity--and the unwelcoming Christian response to Jewish conversions--during a period that is usually celebrated as Between Christian and Jew closely analyzes these events, which Paola Tartakoff considers paradigmatic of inquisitorial proceedings against Jews in the period.