Circa 1492

By now, 1492, will mean many things to many men and women. At the time of planning the colloquium from which these studies proceed, the guiding idea was to convene Hispanists, Hebraists and Arabists of international repute, who had traditionally worked within the confines of their own fields of research and whose work spanned the areas of learning in which Jews were active, from the so-called Golden-Age of Spanish Jewry to the Expulsion and its aftermath: hence the title of this volume.
This book only purports to scrape the tip of the iceberg of new investigations of circa 1492, but if it encourages further excavation in a similar spirit, then its aims have been fulfilled