“A robust work of beauty and quality”: provisions on the renovation of Huesca’s Great Synagogue and its Jewish aljama Authors Javier Castaño Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Madrid) Keywords: synagogue, Aragon, Middle Ages, Jews, building, architecture, brescado, Bernart d’Ortoneda, mudejarismo, alfarje Abstract In 2006, Jaume Riera i Sans published Els poders públics i les sinagogues (segles XIII-XV), a book based on the analysis of textual evidence, with the stated purpose of “writing history” (“ fer història”). Compiling a valuable corpus of documents, he put forward a new history of the Jews in the lands of the Crown of Aragon in the Late Middle Ages through the study of their synagogues. This article offers an edition and analysis of a singular document, written in Hebrew letters and the Aragonese vernacular, which contains provisions on the renovation of the panelled ceiling of Huesca’s Great Synagogue in 1469. On the basis of that text, the article looks at some important aspects of the social and religious history of Huesca’s Jewish aljama in the last third of the 15th century, as well as of relations between Christians and Jews, encompassing synagogues and documented renovation work.Keywords: synagogue, Aragon, Middle Ages, Jews, building, architecture, brescado, Bernart d’Ortoneda, mudejarismo, alfarje Downloads Download data is not yet available. Author Biography Javier Castaño, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Madrid) Investigador Científico. Departamento de estudios judíos e islámicos. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2020-06-09 Issue Vol. 15 (2020) 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.
