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This is the first English translation of one of the most important treatises written during the late-Middle Ages in defense of converts from Judaism, favoring religious tolerance in the face of religious and racially motivated prejudice and violence. The book also includes a fresh Latin edition, drawing on all known manuscripts. The text was written in response to the actions of the ""Old Christians"" of Toledo against the ""New Christians,"" also called conversos, in 1449. A letter of Pope Nicholas V favouring the converts is included.

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Thomas M. Izbicki, Ph.D. (Cornell University, 1973), is a humanities librarian emeritus at Rutgers University. He is a researcher in the fields of medieval canon law, the history of the papacy, and the history of the Order of Preachers. He has published Protector of the Faith: Cardinal Johannes de Turrecremata and the Defense of the Institutional Church (1981) and The Eucharist in Medieval Canon Law (2015). Jorge Ledo, Ph.D. (University of Aberdeen, 2009), is a ‘Ramón y Cajal’ Researcher at the Universidade da Coruña (Spain). He is an intellectual historian specialized in Renaissance Humanism and in the history of religious minorities and religious dissidence in early-modern Spain. He has published Moria de Erasmo Roterodamo. A Critical Edition of the Early Modern Spanish Translation of Erasmus's Encomium Moriae (2014).

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