The Legend of Susona: What the Archive Says and What the 17th Century Added
A street in the Barrio de Santa Cruz carries her name and a skull in tile. The contemporary chronicler names the father and mentions no daughter at all.
People of the Jewish quarter
2 articles from the archive of Casa Sefardí.
Real names recovered from notarial deeds, lawsuits and royal warrants: Doña Leal, an eye doctor with a contract dated 1474; Susona, the legend and what the papers actually say; Ana Gonçales in the Simancas documents. Each article follows one real person of the Jewish quarter or of converso Seville, with its source cited, so that history has a face and not only dates.
Walk the Jewish quarter with an official guide
Doña Leal, Eye Doctor: Medieval Daily Life in a Notarial File of 1474
Three contracts from 1474 in a Seville notarial file: a Jewish woman who healed the eyes of Christians and Muslims.
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