Introduction / Carmen Caballero-Navas and Esperanza Alfonso Bloodshed and borders: violence and acculturation in late Medieval Jewish society / Mark Meyerson The identity of Zequiel: conversos, historiography, and familiar spirits / Eleazar Gutwirth Identities in flux: Iberian conversos at home and abroad / Renèe Levine Melammed Polemical strategy and the rhetoric of authority in Abner of Burgos/Alfonso of Valladolid / Ryan Szpiech Jewish women in Ashkenaz: renegotiating Jewish gender roles in northern Europe / Judith R. Baskin Queen for a day: the exclusion of Jewish women from public life in the Middle Ages / Asuncion Blasco Martinez "Only that which I have lost is now mine forever": the memory of names and the history of Jewish and converso women in Medieval Girona / Silvia Planas Marcè 'Arav and Edom as cultural resources of Medieval Judaism: contrasting attitudes toward Arabic and Latin learning in the Midi and in Italy / Gad Freudenthal Science and Jewish identity in the works of Abraham Zacut (1452-1515) / Mariano Gómez Aranda The incorporation of foreign medical literature into the Medieval Jewish corpus / Lola Ferre The Ṣeri ha-yagon (balm for assuaging grief) by Ibn Falaquera: a case of literary crossbreeding / Aurora Salvatierra Ossorio Defining borders: early fifteenth-century Jews from the crown of Aragon in search of their identity / Àngel Sáenz-Badillos The representation of conversos in Bonafed's Dīwān / Arturo Prats Jewish mudejarismo and the invention of tradition / Eva Frojmovic The Jew's face: vision, knowledge, and identity in Medieval anti-Jewish caricature / Sara Lipton |