Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Medieval and Early Modern Spain

Sixteen essays describe relations between Jews, Muslims and Christians in Spain from the 9th to the 16th centuries. They discuss the historiography and the issues raised by the shifting balance of ethnoreligious power, intellectual contact and social identity in the Iberian peninsula.

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The essays in this interdisciplinary volume examine the social and cultural interaction of Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Spain during the medieval and early modern periods. Together, the essays provide a unique comparative perspective on compelling problems of ethnoreligious relations.


Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Medieval and Early Modern Spain considers how certain social and political conditions fostered fruitful cultural interchange, while others promoted mutual hostility and aversion. The volume examines the factors that enabled one religious minority to maintain its cultural integrity and identity more effectively than another in the same sociopolitical setting.


This volume provides an enriched understanding of how Christians, Muslims, and Jews encountered ideological antagonism and negotiated the theological and social boundaries that separated them.