Crises and Community: Catalan Jewish women and conversas in Girona, 1391–1420 Authors Alexandra Guerson New College, University of Toronto Dana Wessell Lightfoot University of Northern British Columbia Keywords: Jewish women, converses, Girona 1391, Disputation of Tortosa, marriage, family, credit market Abstract The article focuses on the experiences of Jewish women and conversas in the city of Girona after the cataclysmic violence of 1391 up to the economic crises the community faced during and after the Disputation of Tortosa. Through the lens of marriage, family, and economic activity in the credit market, it argues for the importance of considering these events from the perspective of women as a means of nuancing and deepening our understanding of their impact on Catalan Jewish communities more broadly. We also emphasize the need to consider the experiences of Jewish women and conversas alongside Christian women in Catalonia, highlighting their shared experiences in a patriarchal society weathering the crises of the late medieval period.Keywords: Jewish women, conversas, Girona, 1391, Disputation of Tortosa, marriage, family, credit market Downloads Download data is not yet available. Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2019-06-06 Issue Vol. 14 (2019) Section Articles License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors.On submitting articles for publication to the journal TAMID. Revista Catalana Anual d’Estudis Hebraics, authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to Societat Catalana d’Estudis Hebraics (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to TAMID. Revista Catalana Anual d’Estudis Hebraics.Authors answer to Societat Catalana d’Estudis Hebraics for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.Societat Catalana d’Estudis Hebraics declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.The journal is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.
