Hispanic-Jewish homes in the 15th century: words, images and feelings

Abstract

The Hispanic-Jewish house and home have never been understood as different realities in a medieval Hispania where cultural boundaries were apparently mere mental lines. However, there are differences much deeper than the architectural epidermis, derived from the experience of space and religious projections on it. Often these are feelings deposited in the objects that we can only recover from the analysis of texts and images, in an interdisciplinary way between history, philology and art history. We lack direct testimonies, but it is still possible to eradicate forever the idea of uniform dwellings without cultural personality.