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C o n t e n t s Note on Names, Money, Terminology, and Transliterations ix Map 1 xi Map 2 xii Map 3 xiii Introduction 1 PART I. BEFORE THE TRIBUNAL Four Arrests 13 1.Defending the Faith: Medieval Inquisitors and the Prosecution of Jews and Converts 16 2.From Resistance to Surrender: Jewish Responses to Inquisitorial Prosecution 33 Four Condemnations 56 PART II. AT THE FONT OF NEW LIFE Alatzar and Abadia, Baptized 61 3.Between Doubt and Desire: Jewish Conversion, Converts, and Christian Society 63 4.Homeward Bound: The Fates of Jewish Converts 81 Two Converts, Repentant 96 viii Contents PART III. BY THE FIRE The Intervention 101 5.Apostasy as Scourge: Jews and the Repudiation of Apostates 106 6.Recruiting Repentance: The Re-Judaization of Apostates 117 The Road to the Stake 132 Conclusion 135 List of Abbreviations 141 Notes 143 Glossary 173 Bibliography 175 Index 199 Acknowledgments 207 ...

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