"From her masterful discovery of neglected documentary sources and a broad interpretation of the relations of Christians and Jews in northern Castile not based on the age-old rehearsal of tolerant and intolerant forces to explain Iberia's multi religious communities, but drawn from a very detailed analysis of the many interactions of Castilian Christians and Jews, Professor Irish has produced a book that makes her a distinguished intellectual successor of Yitzhak Baer and at the forefront of the group of new scholars who are brilliantly exploring one of Spanish history's greatest vexed questions."-Sixteenth Century Journal