Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Selected Sources: Iberia
Contents
General
There is very little material available in etext form, as yet, about medieval Spain and
Portugal. There are three offsite archives:
- WEB
AARHMS Web
The American Association of Research Historians of Medieval Spain [AARHMS] maintains an
which includes an Archive section devoted to putting such Iberian material online. It is
still fairly sparse at this stage.
- WEB Libro:
The Library of Iberian Resources Online.
A major site that contains the full texts of a number of important modern studies of
medieval Iberia by leading authorities.
Visigothic Spain
Al-Andulus: Moorish Spain
The "Reconquista"
Leon and Castile
Aragon
Portugal
The Life of Christian Spain
Seferad: Jewish Spain
-
Benjamin of Tudela (1160-1173): The Itinerary of Benjamin of
Tudela Critical Text, Translation and Commentary by Marcus Nathan Adler. [At Traveling
to Jerusalem/U Sth Colorado]
- Royal Grants to the Jewish Community of Barcelona,
1241-1271, trans. Elka Klein
- Barcelona Jewish Court Documents: A Jewish Widow and
her Daughter, 1261-1262, trans. Elka Klein
- Barcelona Jewish Court Documents: A Daughter's
Inheritance, 1293, trans. Elka Klein
- Jewish Community of Barcelona: The Book of
Document Forms, 13th century, trans. Elka Klein
- Jewish Views of Royal Monetary
Policy in Aragon, 13th Century, trans. Elka Klein.
- The Siete Partidas: Concerning Jews,
1265.
- Judah Ha-Levi (ca 1075-1141): The Kuzari, also known as The Book of Argument and Proof in Defense of the Despised Faith (Kitab al
Khazari).
The entire first book of the Kuzari, a philosophical treatise written by the
Spanish Jewish philosopher and poet, Judah Ha-Levi. It is written in the form of a
dialogue, purportedly between the king of the Khazars and the representatives of various
belief systems, culminating with a rabbi.
- Jews and Christians in Teruel: The Fuero of Teruel,
1176 CE, trans. Elka Klein
Excerpts from the Fuero, or urban ordinance.
- A Business Partnership between a Jew and
Christian in Barcelona, 1235-1242 CE
Documents on exploitation of royal mills by Jews and Christians in Barcelona.
- Ordinance of the Jews of the Crown of
Aragon, 1354 CE
This ordinance or takkanah was the product of an increased sense of Jewish
vulnerability in the years after the Black Death (1348).
- Synod of Castilian Jews, 1432
Ordinances from assembly of the Jews of the kingdom of Castile at Valladolid in
1432.
- The Expulsion from
Spain, 1492
Account by an Italian Jew.
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