Extraordinary subsidies requested to the Jewish aljamas of the Crown of Aragon in the late thirteenth (1293-1297) Authors Irene Llop Jordana Universitat de Vic Keywords: extraordinary taxation, aljama, collecta, Jews, Crown of Aragon, 13th century Abstract This article looks at the additional taxes imposed on the Crown of Aragon’s Jewish aljamas (a Spanish term of Arabic origin used in old official documents to designate self-governing communities of Moors and Jews living under Spanish rule). The six extraordinary charges levied between 1293 and 1297 offer a general insight into the imposition of additional taxes and the evolution of the tax system in the late 13th century.Keywords: extraordinary taxation, aljama, collecta, Jews, Crown of Aragon, 13th century Author Biography Irene Llop Jordana, Universitat de Vic Doctora en Història Medieval, Paleografia i Diplomàtica (UB) i llicenciada en Filologia Hebrea (UB), treballo al Departament d'Informació i Documentació de la Universitat de Vic. Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2013-02-21 Issue Vol. 8 (2012) 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.
