An Arrested Community: Christians of the Girdle in Fifteenth-Century Barcelona

In the early fifteenth-century a group of Christians of the Girdle—Eastern Christians coming from Syria—arrived in Barcelona. In the first decades of their presence in the city they acted as a group, living in the same quarter, adopting a policy of endogamous marriages and establishing a brotherhood...

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Main Author: Duran Duelt, Daniel (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2016
In: Medieval encounters
Year: 2016, Volume: 22, Issue: 4, Pages: 379-426
Further subjects:B Brotherhood economic conditions marriage mimicry Syrian Christians
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