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Ordenamiento de Menestrales
Spain [1351]
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- In Spain: Castilian institutions, society, and culture
…guarantee stability by enacting the Ordenamiento de Menestrales, which required workers to accept the same wages as before the plague. Owing to popular agitation, a great pogrom against the Jews erupted in 1391 and rapidly spread throughout the peninsula. Forced to choose Christianity or death, many Jews converted. A number…
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