Tax Role, 1476
Tax Role In 1476 Ferdinand and Isabella granted privilege to Gonzalo del Rio to take charge of the tax roll of Jews in Sergovia. Sotheby’s
Mamluke Period
Fall of Constantinople, 1453
Fall of Constantinople, painted 1499. Sultan Mehmed II conquered Constantinople in 1453, bringing an end to the medieval Byzantine Empire.
Black Plague, 1347-1351
Victims of the Black Plague Remains of black plague victims in East Smithfield cemetery. The Black Death, or the Black Plague, was one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, widely thought to have been caused by a bacterium named Yersinia pestis (Bubonic plague), but recently attributed by some to other diseases. Bubonic plague is […]
Gold and Silver Coins from the Mamluke Period
Mazar, Eilat, The Complete Guide to the Temple Mount Excavations, Shoham Academic Research and Publication, Jerusalem, 2002 p. 110
Jerusalem Etching, 14th century
Jerusalem Etching Jerusalem in the Mameluke period, a 14th-century etching. Ben-Dov, Meir, et al. The Western Wall. Jerusalem- Ministry of Defence Publishing House, 1983.