INTRODUCTION TO HISTORY AND CULTURE OF SPAIN
 
The Life and Death of Tolerance:  Christians, Jews, and Moslems in Iberia
 
 
Spanish Inquisition
Jewish Population
Pax Romana (27 BCE-180) (Augustus-Marcus Aurelius)
Legion
Judaea or Palestine
Hebrew people and Judaism
Great Jewish War (66-73)
Bar Kochba Revolt (137)
Hadrian (2nd Spanish emperor)
Diaspora
Hellenized Jews
St. Paul (Saul of Tarsus)
Differences in Roman and Christian persecution of Jews
Ghetto
Lepers
Pogrom
Expulsion of Jews (usually involved property confiscation)
St. Bernard of Clairvaux:  first to use verb "to jew" in Latin form, judaizare
Blood libel
Thomas of Monmouth
Clermont (1095)
Urban II
Peasant's Crusade (1095) and First Crusade (1096-1100)
Holocaust of eleventh century (Rhineland massacres during first Crusades)
Massacre of Jerusalem (1099)
The Black Death (bubonic plague) (1347-1350)
Jews as scapegoats
Pasteurella pestis
Spanish Jewry
Arianism
Reccared's conversion to Roman Christianity (587)
Sisebut
Mohammed
Old Testament (Christian name for the Jewish Bible)
Heresy
Heretic
Shiite vrs. Sunnite
Limits of Islamic Toleration
Monotheism
People of the Book
Zoroastrianism (dualism)
Tarik and Musa
Mozárabes
Physician (lead Jewish occupation)
Moses Maimonides
Saladin (Salahadin)
Francis I
Charles V
“Open Society” of Spain
Aristotle
Scholasticism
Taifas
Las Navas de Tolosa (1212)
Aljama (Juderia)
Innocent III
Fourth Lateran Council (1215)
Fernando III of Castile
Honorius III
Jaume I “the Conqueror”
Pedro the Cruel
Trastámaran Dynasty
Enrique II “the Bastard”
Cortes of Burgos (1367)
Don Jusef Pichon
Malsín (“informer”)
Enrique III
Pogrom of the 1390s
Fernand Martínez
Conversos
“Converso Problem”
Vicente Ferrer
Nuevos Christianos vrs. Viejos Christianos
Bishop Pablo de Santa María (Solomon ha-Levi)
Alonso de Cartagena
Council of Basle
Teresa de Cartagena
Reasons Jews did not “reconvert” after the pogroms
Scrutinium Scripturarum
Amerigo Castro
St. Dominic de Guzmán
Friars
Dominican teachers:  Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas
Pope Sixtus IV
Diego de Susán
Auto de Fe (“Act of Faith”)
Fray Alonso de Hojeda
Self-Flagellation
Consejo de la Suprema y General Inquisición
Grand Inquisitor
Tomas de Torquemada
Juan Arias Dávila
Pedro de Aranda
Aragonese fueros
Pedro Arbués
Luis de Santángel
Gonzalo de Santa María
Alfonso de la Caballeria
Edict of Expulsion (March, 1492) (Took effect in May)
 

 

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