The Tortosa Disputation, 1413–14

• Published in: Judaism on Trial p. 82
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization 01.10.1984
• Subjects: Anthropology; Applied sociology; Behavioral sciences; Christianity; Clergy; Criminal conversion; Criminal law; Criminal offenses; Disputations; Doctrinal theology; Ethnic groups; Ethnography; Ethnology; Ethnoreligious groups; Faith; Historical methodology; Historiography; History; History of philosophy; Jewish peoples; Jewish studies; Judaism; Law; Medieval philosophy; Popes; Practical theology; Rabbis; Religion; Religious conversion; Sacred texts; Sociology; Sociology of religion; Spiritual belief systems; Spiritual leaders; Systematic theology; Talmud; Theology; Torah
• ISBN: 0197100465; 9780197100462
• DOI: 10.3828/liverpool/9780197100462.003.0006

In terms of scale and splendour, the greatest of the disputations was that of Tortosa. Instead of lasting for a few days, this one lasted for a period of twenty-one months, with a total of sixty-nine sessions. Instead of being commemorated, on the Christian side, by a brief communique, it was the subject of voluminous ‘protocols’, or minutes, kept session by session by the papal notary, and comprising over 600 pages in the edition of Pacios Lopez (1957). On the Jewish side, however, it gave rise to a much shorter account, by Bonastruc Desmaltres, one of the participants, covering only