“Conversi” Revert: Voluntary and Forced Return to Judaism in the Early Fourteenth Century
Forced to choose between conversion and death, many medieval Jews chose to be baptized as Christians. While not all Jews in Western Europe faced such stark choices, during the fourteenth century pressure increased on the Jewish minority to join the Christian majority. Economic, social, and political...
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1995
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Church history
Year: 1995, Volume: 64, Issue: 1, Pages: 16-28 |
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