Daily Medieval

A memorial in Lisbon* We touched on the Lisbon Massacre, in which between 1000 and 2000 (and maybe more) Jews were slaughtered, in the p...

A secret seder [ source ] Yesterday I alluded to a third option available to persecuted Jews in the Middle Ages who were forced into t...

The Inquisition in Portigal [ source ] When the Alhambra Decree gave Jews the choice of converting to Christianity or leaving the kingd...