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Dear Kerry,
Pedro de Alfonso is much better known under a Latin form of his name,
Petrus Alfonsi. If you look him up that way, you should have much
better success (a Google phrase search for ["Petrus Alfonsi"] brought up
749 hits just now). For more extensive reading, you could start with
John V. Tolan, ed., _Petrus Alfonsi and his Medieval Readers_
(Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1993).
Best,
John Dillon
On Friday, July 1, 2005, at 7:51 pm, Kerry Inman wrote:
> Does anyone have any information on Pedro de Alfonso--late 11th
> early 12th
> centuries ? He was Jewish but converted to Christianity in Huesca,
> Spain in
> 1106 and later went to England. Like many Jews who lived in Spain
> he probably
> had lived under the Arabs and knew Arabic as well as Hebrew and
> Ladino. As
> the reconquest progressed, life was not so bearable for Jews in
> Spain and
> Portugal so
> many went to England where they could live outwardly as Christians
> and secretly
> be Jews at home. Alfonso, however, went a step further and wrote
> DialogusPetri et Moysi--an anti-Jewish polemic.
>
> I have only two sources:
>
> Baron, Salo Wittmayer, Social and Religious History of the Jews and,
>
> Williams, Adversus Judaeos, A Bird's Eye View of Christian
> Apologiae Until the
> Renaissance.
>
> A dissertation at USC by Allan Cutler has only a digest of these
> two sources.
>
> I would like more esoteric stuff if I could find it.
>
> Thanks for any help you can give.
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