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Duran i Duelt, Daniel, "An arrested community: christians of the Girdle in fifteenth-century Barcelona", Medieval Encounters, 22 (2016), 379-426.

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In the early fifteenth-century a group of Christians of the Girdle Eastern Christians coming from Syria arrived in Barcelona. In the first decades of their presence in the city they acted as a group, living in the same quarter, adopting a policy of endogamous marriages and establishing a brotherhood. But a marked improvement in economic conditions of the newcomers and their descendants, as well as an expansion of their social relationship networks, marked the end of the strong cohesion. It seems, then, that the experience of the Christians of the Girdle must be interpreted primarily as a strategy for survival in the new social environment of Barcelona rather than a deliberate policy of exclusive cultural identity with a view to reproduction of a specific cultural, linguistic, and religious model.
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The small images on the decorative ribbon correspond, from left to right, to the following documents: 1. James II orders the settlement of neighborhood disputes over an estate of the royal doctor Arnau de Vilanova in the city of Valencia. 1298 (ACA); 2. Contract between Guglielmo Neri de Santo Martino, a surgeon from Pisa, and the physician-surgeon from Majorca Pere Saflor, bachelor of medicine, to practise medicine and surgery under the latter’s direction, 1356 (ACM); 3. Valuation of the workshop of Guillem Metge, an apothecary from Barcelona, made by the apothecaries Miquel Tosell, Berenguer Duran and Vicenç Bonanat, for its sale to Llorenç Bassa, a fellow apothecary, 1364 (AHPB); 4. Peter III the Ceremonious regularizes the legal situation of Esteró, a Jewish female doctor from Vilafranca del Penedès, granting her an extraordinary license to practice medicine. 1384 (ACA); 5. Power of attorney of Margarida de Tornerons, a doctor in Prats de Molló and Vic, in order to recover the goods withheld from her by a third party in Vic, 1401 (ABEV); 6. Doctorate and teaching license of Narcís Solà, bachelor of medicine, issued by Bernat de Casaldòvol, doctor of medicine and chancellor of the Faculty of Medicine in Barcelona, 1526 (AHCB); and 7. Partnership between Joan Llunes and Joan Francesc Llunes, father and son, and Lluís Gual, the former’s son-in-law, surgeons of Caldes de Montbui, in order to practise the profession, 1579 (AHCB).