Language:
English
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
American Historical Review
Angaben zur Quelle:
107,4 (2002) 1065-1093
Keywords:
Christian converts from Judaism
;
Jews
;
Judaism Relations
;
Christianity
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism
;
Christian converts from Judaism
Abstract:
Discusses the anxiety in medieval Spanish Christian society about interfaith sex as undermining the boundaries between Christians and Jews (as well as Muslims). At first, concern was mainly limited to Christian prostitutes. With the forced conversions of 1391 when, with the influx of masses of Jews, Christian identity became problematic, it was deemed necessary to put more distance between Christians and Jews, not only by restricting social contacts but also via residential segregation. After 1391 the sexual imagery was expanded to include all Christian females in order to better protect the Christian body politic and individual Christians.
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