Between Testaments, Marrano: A Trilogy of Novels Inspired by Life in 15th Century Spain: Book I

CASTILE: 1350 to 1450 were bitter years in Spain, culminating in the massacre of Jews who would not convert to Catholicism, producing a class of conversos who, as Fernando del Pulgar, converso and chronicler of royalty wrote, "...were not keeping either one law (Mosaic) or the other (Christian)." This trilogy of novels depicts the interaction of Jews, Christians, Muslims, and conversos in Spain in the second half of the fifteenth century, when convivencia, a period of relative harmony betwe...