Fontes ad res Judaicas spectantes: Records of the trials of the Spanish Inquisition in Ciudad Real; Vol. I: The Trials of 1483-1485; Vol. II: The Trials of 1494-1512 in Toledo; Vol. III: The Trials of 1512-1527 in Toledo. Vol. IV: Documents, Biographical Notes, Indexes. 4 Vols
Jerusalem: The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1974-1977-1981-1985. First edition. Quarto. XXXVII, [3], 638, [2], XIII, [1], 596, [2], IX, [1], 768, [2]pp., X, 663 [3]pp. Original blue-green cloth with gold lettering on front covers and spines. Printer's device in gilt on spines. Frontispiece in volume one. Volume one in light brown cardboard slipcase.
Fascinating work being Beinart's monumental historiography of the Spanish inquisition. The four volumes are detailed and complete records of the trials of the Spanish Inquisition in Ciudad Real between 1483 and 1527, with volume four containing documents, bibliographical notes and indexes. Preface and introductions and notes in English, main text in Spanish. Slight wear of bindings along edges of bindings. Volumes two and three with brief inked notations on front free endpapers. Slipcase with light wear and one and a half inch closed tear. g. Item #55364
About the author: Haim Beinart is an emeritus professor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has more than three hundred publications to his credit, almost all of them dealing with the history of the Jews in Spain in the Middle Ages and their subsequent expulsion. He was elected to the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 1981 and has received many other prizes and honors for his scholarly work, including the Ruppin Prize (1966), the Isaac Ben-Zvi Award (1976), the Wiznitzer Prize for the best book published in Jewish History (1981), and the Tri-Cultural Prize of the University of Cordova (1981). In 1989 he became a Doctor Honoris Causa of the Complutense University of Madrid and in 1992 a Dr. Lit. of the Jewish Theological Seminary, New York. He has held visiting professorships in Berne, London, Lucerne, and Princeton, and a visiting fellowship at Wolfson College, Oxford.
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