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N o t e s introduction 1. “Journey from Islam: Incipient Cultural Transition in the Conquered Kingdom of Valencia (1240–1280),” Speculum 35 (1960): 338. 2. The Crown of Aragon was a confederation comprised of Aragon, Catalonia, and Valencia, Mediterranean islands such as Mallorca, and some territories north of the Pyrenees . For a succinct introduction to its political and economic history, see Thomas N. Bisson, The Medieval Crown of Aragon: A Short History (Oxford, 1986). In 1391, thousands of Jews across Iberia were slaughtered and thousands more baptized by force. 3. On the “golden age” of Jewish culture in the medieval Crown of Aragon, see, for example, Yom Tov Assis, The Golden Age of Aragonese Jewry: Community and Society in the Crown of Aragon, 1213–1327 (London, 1997). For a discussion of scholarship that explores the limits, and questions the utility, of the vexed notion of convivencia, often understood as the harmonious “living together” of Jews, Muslims, and Christians in medieval Spain, see Maya Soifer, “Beyond Convivencia: Critical Reflections on the Historiography of Interfaith Relations in Christian Spain,” Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies (2009): 19–35. 4. ACB, C126, fols. 2r, 23r, 25r, 40r, 47v. 5. ACB, C126, fols. 39r–v, 42r, 43r, 50r. 6. ACB, C126, fols. 90r, 91v–92v. Josep Perarnau i Espelt published an introductory analysis of these trials in “El procés inquisitorial barceloní contra els jueus Janto Almuli, la seva muller Jamila i Jucef de Quatorze (1341–1342),” RCT 4 (1979): 309–53. He discusses them also in “L’autodifesa nella parola di tre ebrei davanti all-inquisitore,” in La parola allaccusato , ed. Jean-Claude Maire Vigueur et al. (Palermo, 1991), 74–84. Also see Kristine T. Utterback, “‘Conversi’ Revert: Voluntary and Forced Return to Judaism in the Early Fourteenth Century,” Church History 64 (1995): 16–28; and Robin Vose, Dominicans, Muslims and Jews in the Medieval Crown of Aragon (Cambridge, 2009), 188–91. 7. I refer to “medieval inquisitions” in the plural, for medieval inquisitors were never integrated into a unified, centralized organization. See the discussion in Edward Peters, Inquisition (Berkeley, Calif., 1989), 67–71. 8. On other extant transcripts of medieval inquisitorial trials involving Jews and converts , see Joseph Shatzmiller, Recherches sur la communauté juive de Manosque au moyen âge (Paris, 1973), 54–63; Jacques Fournier, Le registre d’inquisition de Jacques Fournier, ed. Jean Duvernoy (Toulouse, 1965), 1:177–90, translated with analysis by Solomon Grayzel in “The Confession of a Medieval Jewish Convert,” Historia Judaica 17 (1955): 89–120; Josep 144 Notes to Pages 3–6 Hernando i Delgado, “El procés contra el converso Nicolau Sanxo, ciutadà de Barcelona, acusat d’haver circumcidat el seu fill (1437–1438),” Acta Historica et Archaeologica 13 (1992): 75–100; and Mark D. Meyerson, “Seeking the Messiah: Converso Messianism in Post-1453 Valencia,” in The Conversos and Moriscos in Late Medieval Spain and Beyond, ed. Kevin Ingram (Leiden, 2009), 51–82. 9. See, for example, Yosef H. Yerushalmi, “The Inquisition and the Jews of France in the Time of Bernard Gui,” HTR 63 (1970): 317–76; Joseph Shatzmiller, “L’inquisition et les juifs de Provence au XIIIe s.,” in Histoire de la Provence et civilization medieval: Études dédiées à la mémoire d’Edouard Baratier, Provence Historique 23 (Marseille, 1973), 327–38; Solomon Grayzel, “Popes, Jews, and Inquisition, from Sicut to Turbato,” in The Church and the Jews in the Thirteenth Century, 2 vols. (New York, 1989), 2:3–45; Maurice Kriegel, “La juridiction inquisitoriale sur les juifs à l’époque de Philippe le Hardi et Philippe le Bel,” in Les juifs dans l’histoire de la France, ed. Myriam Yardeni (Leiden, 1980), 70–77; Maurice Kriegel, “Prémarranisme et inquisition dans la Provence des XIIIe et XIVe siècles,” Provence Historique 29 (1978): 313–23; and Yom Tov Assis, “The Papal Inquisition and Aragonese Jewry in the Early Fourteenth Century,” Medieval Studies 49 (1987): 391–410. 10. Studies of Jewish conversion in Iberia prior to 1391 include Paola Tartakoff, “Jewish Women and Apostasy in the Medieval Crown of Aragon, c. 1300–1391,” Jewish History 24 (2010): 7–32; and Alexandra Guerson, “Seeking Remission: Jewish Conversion in the Crown of Aragon, c. 1378–1391,” Jewish History 24 (2010): 33–52. 11. On inquisitorial record production, see James Buchanan Given, Inquisition and Medieval Society: Power, Discipline, and Resistance in Languedoc (Ithaca, N.Y., 1997), 25–51. 12. David Nirenberg, Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages (Princeton, N.J., 1996), 26–27...
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