Article: Jews, Visigoths, and Muslims in Medieval Spain: Cooperation and Conflict.(Review)

Norman Roth. Medieval Iberian Peninsula: Texts and Studies 10. Leiden, New York, Cologne: E. J. Brill, 1994. Pp. 367. $67.75.

To exhaust his vast topic - a survey of relations between Jews and Visigoths in "first millennium" Spain and Jews and Muslims and Christians in Medieval Spain - Roth composes a collection of data-dumps, biographical narratives, and pithy conclusive essays founded on 100 pages of notes and a bibliography loaded with Hebrew, Arabic, French, Spanish, English, Latin, and German works. Roth seems to engage in a continuous symposium with the pertinent primary and secondary sources. Few modern (or ancient) authorities pass his scrutiny without ...

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