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A tale of two Tolranas: Jewish women’s agency and conversion in late medieval Girona
Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Pub Date : 2020-07-27 , DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2020.1797140
Alexandra Guerson 1 , Dana Wessell Lightfoot 2
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ABSTRACT

On 27 September 1391, a woman named Tolrana stood on the steps of the Gironella tower in Girona and, before Christian officials and her own Jewish representatives, refused to convert to Christianity or to remain married to her husband Francesc, who had converted during the recent attacks against the Jewish community. Almost thirty years later, in February 1419, the minor orphan Tolrana Benet appealed to King Alfons because she wanted to convert to Christianity but was being prevented by her Jewish guardians. She proposed to the king that she be put under the guardianship of her converso uncle, Lluis de Cardona. We do not know why the first Tolrana decided to end her marriage rather than convert, nor why the young Tolrana resisted familial pressures to remain Jewish. Yet both examples illustrate ways in which Jewish women exercised agency as a means of determining their own lives. This article focuses on the experiences of women to consider the intersection of agency and religious conversion in a community fraught with crisis around the turn of the fifteenth century.



中文翻译:

关于两个托拉纳斯的故事:犹太妇女的代理和中世纪赫罗纳的conversion依

摘要

1391年9月27日,一位名叫托拉娜(Tolrana)的妇女站在赫罗纳(Girona)的赫罗内拉塔(Gironella tower)的台阶上,然后在基督教官员和她自己的犹太人代表拒绝convert依基督教或与她的丈夫弗朗切斯remain(Francesc)结婚之前,弗朗切斯sc夫在不久前converted依对犹太社区的袭击。将近三十年后的1419年2月,未成年人的托拉纳·贝纳特(Tolrana Benet)向国王阿方斯(Alfons)求助,因为她想convert依基督教,但遭到犹太监护人的阻挠。她向国王求婚,要求将她置于对话者的监护之下叔叔,路易斯·卡多纳(Lluis de Cardona)我们不知道为什么第一任托兰娜决定结束婚姻而不是convert依,也不知道为什么年轻的托兰娜抵制住保持犹太人身份的家庭压力。然而,这两个例子都说明了犹太妇女行使代理作为决定自己生活的一种方式。本文着重介绍女性在15世纪初左右充满危机的社区中考虑代理与宗教信仰转变的经历。

更新日期:2020-07-27
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