La comunidad judía de Calatayud durante el siglo XIV. Introducción al estudio de su estructura social

Abstract

The Jewish community of Calatayud was one of the most populous and affluent in the kingdom of Aragon, after the community of Zaragoza, during the late Middle Ages. In this article, the author, using mainly the information that he has obtained from the Chancery Registers of the Archive of the Crown of Aragon, analyses the social structure of this community during the fourteenth century. He proves that there were important wealth differences among its members, and that they devoted themselves to a wide variety of economic activities. He gives account of some of these, namely, collection of taxes due to the king, money lending, trade, cloth manufacture and medicine.