WeekInTime Issue 5: The Reign in Spain
King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I issue the Alhambra Decree in 1492
This week in time, Queen Isabella I and King Ferdinand II of Spain issued the Alhambra Decree, giving Jews who refused Christian baptism four months to leave Spain or face the death penalty. The decree accused Spanish Jews of attempting “to subvert and remove faithful Christians from our holy Catholic faith…and attract and pervert [them] to their wicked…
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