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“Sarah Ifft Decker has admirably and deftly met the myriad challenges facing medieval women’s historians. . . . The Fruit of Her Hands is an extensively and meticulously researched book.” —Nina Caputo Jewish Historical Studies “By focusing her attention on exploring the economic status and activities of Jewish women in medieval Catalonia (in comparison with their Christian counterparts), Sarah Ifft Decker makes an important intervention. The Fruit of Her Hands is not only groundbreaking but beautifully written and solidly based on extensive archival research.” —Debra Blumenthal,author of Enemies and Familiars: Slavery and Mastery in Fifteenth-Century Valencia “The Fruit of Her Hands presents—and expertly analyzes—rich archival evidence about the lives and financial activities of Jewish and Christian women in medieval Catalonia, with important implications for understanding the intersections of gender, religion, socioeconomic status, and geography.” —Paola Tartakoff,author of Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe

“The Fruit of Her Hands presents—and expertly analyzes—rich archival evidence about the lives and financial activities of Jewish and Christian women in medieval Catalonia, with important implications for understanding the intersections of gender, religion, socioeconomic status, and geography.” —Paola Tartakoff, author of Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe “By focusing her attention on exploring the economic status and activities of Jewish women in medieval Catalonia (in comparison with their Christian counterparts), Sarah Ifft Decker makes an important intervention. The Fruit of Her Hands is not only groundbreaking but beautifully written and solidly based on extensive archival research.” —Debra Blumenthal, author of Enemies and Familiars: Slavery and Mastery in Fifteenth-Century Valencia

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Sarah Ifft Decker is Assistant Professor of History at Rhodes College and the host of Media-eval: A Medieval Pop Culture Podcast.

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