The Sephardic Frontier: The “Reconquista” and the Jewish Community in Medieval Iberia (Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past)
No subject looms larger over the historical landscape of medieval Spain than that of the reconquista, the rapid expansion of the power of the Christian kingdoms into the Muslim-populated lands of southern Iberia, which created a broad frontier zone that for two centuries remained a region of warfare and peril. […]