Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction. Neighboring Faiths 1
4. 1.Christendom and Islam 15
5. 2. Love between Muslim and Jew 35
6. 3. Deviant Politics and Jewish Love: Alfonso VIII and the Jewess of Toledo 55
7. 4 Massacre or Miracle? Valencia, 1391 75
8. 5. Conversion, Sex, and Segregation 89
9. 6. Figures of Thought and Figures of Flesh 117
10. 7. Mass Conversion and Genealogical Mentalities 143
11. 8. Was There Race before Modernity? The Example of “Jewish” Blood in Late Medieval Spain 169
12. 9. Islam and the West: Two Dialectical Fantasies 191
13. Acknowledgments 213
14. Notes 215
15. Bibliography of Works Cited 289
16. Index 321