EventAcross the pillars

The Three Communities

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The Three Communities

In our towns, church bells, the mu'aḏḏin's call, and the Sabbath candle all mark the same hours on the same streets, and have done so for generations. Mudéjar artisans, Jewish moneylenders and physicians, and Christian burghers share markets, workshops, courtyards, and often bitter disputes, all held together under a fragile convivencia that predates our grandfathers and has outlasted wars, plagues, and the shifting moods of the kings before us. Councilors press us daily for a firmer hand; the aljamas press just as hard for the opposite. How closely should the crown watch over the terms on which the three communities are permitted to live side by side?

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type = country_event
title = d009_convivencia.1.title The Three Communities
desc = d009_convivencia.1.desc In our towns, church bells, the mu'aḏḏin's call, and the Sabbath candle all mark the same hours on the same streets, and have done so for generations. Mudéjar artisans, Jewish moneylenders and physicians, and Christian burghers share markets, workshops, courtyards, and often bitter disputes, all held together under a fragile convivencia that predates our grandfathers and has outlasted wars, plagues, and the shifting moods of the kings before us. Councilors press us daily for a firmer hand; the aljamas press just as hard for the opposite. How closely should the crown watch over the terms on which the three communities are permitted to live side by side?
outcome = neutral
historical_info = d009_convivencia.1.historical_info Convivencia, meaning coexistence, is the term historians use for the centuries in which Christians, Muslims, and Jews lived side by side across medieval Iberia under varying degrees of tolerance, particularly in cities like Toledo, Sevilla, and Zaragoza. It was never full equality, non-Christians paid special taxes and lived under real restrictions, but it allowed a level of cultural and intellectual exchange that produced, among other things, the great translation schools of Toledo.

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