IMC 2023: Sessions

Session 1619: Jews, Conversos, and Christians: Professional Relationships in Late Medieval Iberia, II

Thursday 6 July 2023, 11.15-12.45

Organiser:	Marina Girona Berenguer, Facultad de Educación, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja
Moderator/Chair:	Anna Rich-Abad, Department of History, University of Nottingham
Paper 1619-a	Rebuilding the Community: Networks of Support among the Conversos of 15th-Century Barcelona (Language: English) Clara Jáuregui, Institut de Recerca en Cultures Medievals, Universitat de Barcelona Index terms: Economics - Urban, Gender Studies, Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Paper 1619-b	Economic Profile and Mentality of the Jewish and Converso Communities in the Kingdom of Aragon in the Late Middle Ages (Language: English) Miguel Ángel Motis Dolader, Facultad de Comunicación y Ciencias Sociales, Universidad San Jorge, Zaragoza Index terms: Economics - Urban, Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Paper 1619-c	La práctica profesional de la medicina entre judíos y judeoconversos castellanos en el tránsito de la Edad Media a la Moderna (Language: Español) Enrique Cantera-Montenegro, Departamento de Historia Medieval y Ciencias y Técnicas Historiográficas, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Medicine
Paper 1619-d	Jewish Women and Medicine in Late Medieval Castile (Language: English) Marina Girona Berenguer, Facultad de Educación, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja Index terms: Gender Studies, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Medicine
Abstract	The professional activities of men and women in minority groups in the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages is a recent field of research. Within the area of Jewish Studies, it is also a topic occupied in the study of professional networks between Jews and other religious individuals, communities, and institutions. Likewise, it also reveals information about professional training and progression. This session focus on a comparative perspective of the work life of Jews and Conversos from the Crowns of Aragon (Catalonia, Valencia, and Aragon) and Castile during the 14th and 15th centuries.