Language:
Spanish
Year of publication:
2001
Titel der Quelle:
Studi Medievali
Angaben zur Quelle:
42,1 (2001) 165-204
Keywords:
Jews History Middle Ages, 500-1500
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Antisemitism History To 1500
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Jews
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Jews
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Judaism Relations
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Christianity
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Christianity and other religions Judaism
Abstract:
Examines the religious and social implications of the tax known as the "treinta dineros" ("thirty pieces of silver") paid by the Jews to the Church in Castile from the 13th century until the expulsion in 1492. Although the Jews in Castile were the property of the Crown and paid their taxes directly to it, the Church managed, during the reconquest of territories from the Arabs, to impose this tax on Jews in all of Castile. It was usually paid at Easter, associated with the celebration of Jesus' Passion, as a punishment for the 30 pieces of silver that Judas Iscariot received for his betrayal of Jesus. The Jewish communities sometimes resisted payment, but the Church complained to the Crown, which always decided in favor of the Church. During the 16th century a legend spread through Castile that the Jews of Toledo were exempted from paying the tax because they were already in Spain at the time of Jesus' death and therefore not guilty of the crime of deicide.
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