This study intends to make a contribution to the literature on Jewish autonomy in the Late Middle Ages by analyzing Jewish political life in the Kingdom of Naples in the fifteenth century. Contrary to Italian and European scholarship which has interpreted Jewry policy in the Kingdom of Naples in the fifteenth century as a direct emanation of the ‘good heart’ of the Aragonese kings, I argue that Jewish charters must be considered the product of Jewish agency. I suggest that the Jewish ruling elites, not the king nor the municipal governmets sought the administrative and juridical separation of the iudece (Jewish Communities) from the municipal governement of southern cities. Considering that Jewish political action, and the administration of the iudeca mirrored that of cities, I argue that Jewish Communities fit perfectly into the Aragonese administrative puzzle.

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广场上的犹太人：十五世纪那不勒斯王国的犹太人自治

本研究旨在通过分析 15 世纪那不勒斯王国的犹太人政治生活，为中世纪晚期犹太人自治的文献做出贡献。与将 15 世纪那不勒斯王国的犹太人政策解释为阿拉贡国王“好心”的直接体现的意大利和欧洲学术相反，我认为犹太宪章必须被视为犹太人代理的产物。我建议犹太统治精英，而不是国王和市政府寻求 iudece（犹太社区）与南部城市市政府的行政和司法分离。考虑到犹太人的政治行动和 iudeca 的管理反映了城市的行动，