A Historian in Exile - 9780812248586

A Historian in ExileSolomon Ibn Verga, \""Shevet Yehudah,\"" and the Jewish-Christian Encounter\nAuthor(s): Jeremy Cohen\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States\nImprint: University of Pennsylvania Press\nISBN-13: 9780812248586, 978-0812248586\nSynopsis\nSolomon ibn Verga was one of the victims of the decrees expelling the Jews from Spain and Portugal in the 1490s, and his Shevet Yehudah (The Scepter of Judah, ca. 1520) numbered among the most popular Hebrew books of the sixteenth century. Its title page lured readers and buyers with a promise to relate \""the terrible events and calamities that afflicted the Jews while in the lands of non-Jewish peoples\"": blood libels, disputations, conspiracies, evil decrees, expulsions, and more.\n The book itself preserves collective memories, illuminates a critical and transitional phase in Jewish history, and advances a new vision of European society and government. It reflects a world of renaissance, reforma.