Conversos in Spanish culture and religious reform
pp. 261-274
in: Guttorm Fløistad (ed), Philosophy of religion, Berlin, Springer, 2010Abstract
For half a millennium, Spain had been the major Jewish center of the world and the gem of the Diaspora. Having flourished under Muslim rule, Spanish Jewry retained its vitality in the early days of the reconquest, but was already past its prime as the Christians seized control over most of the peninsula. Then, in the span of one century (1391–1492), it cracked, struggled, and was extinguished.