The Persecution of the Jews and Muslims of Portugal: King Manuel I and the End of Religious Tolerance (1496-7) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789004205925)

In 1496-7, King Manuel I of Portugal forced the Jews of his kingdom to convert to Christianity and expelled all his Muslim subjects. Portugal was the first kingdom of the Iberian Peninsula to end definitively Christian-Jewish-Muslim coexistence, creating an exclusively Christian realm. Drawing upon narrative and documentary sources in Portuguese, Spanish and Hebrew, this book pieces together the developments that led to the events of 1496-7 and presents a detailed reconstruction of the persecution. It challenges widely held views concerning the impact of the arrival in Portugal of the Jews expelled from Castile in 1492, the diplomatic wrangling that led to the forced conversion of the Portuguese Jews in 1497 and the causes behind the expulsion of the Muslim minority.

Originally published in hardcover



Author: Fran輟is Soyer
ISBN-10: 9004205926
ISBN-13: 9789004205925
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 02/28/2011
Pages: 346
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.30w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 06/01/2011 pg. 37