Language:
English
Year of publication:
2009
Titel der Quelle:
Sefarad
Angaben zur Quelle:
69,1 (2009) 75-99
Keywords:
John
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Antisemitism History Middle Ages, 500-1500
;
Jews
Abstract:
Despite King João II's nefarious reputation in Jewish historiography, argues that his policies toward the Jews were not influenced by anti-Jewish sentiments, but by political and economic considerations. He sought to safeguard his property and sources of revenue, and viewed the Portuguese Jews as both. While these Jews posed no threat to his rule, he perceived the thousands of Jewish refugees expelled from Castile differently. His actions of forcing the latter into camps and seizing for ransom the children of those who failed to pay taxes to him were crassly materialistic rather than a sign of religious bigotry. He did not, as has often been argued, try to prevent the Castilian Jews from leaving his country; rather, he did his best to have them leave - after they paid taxes to the royal treasury.
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