Tortosa

Yeah, so again, these happen to just be the bishoprics that are linked to these archives that I initially got interested in.

And so one of these bishoprics is Tortosa, which is south of Barcelona, maybe.

I mean, on the train, it's a very slow train because Tortosa is one of these cities that's been sort of been sort of killed by the growth of Barcelona and other big cities in the region.

Um, so it's, it used to be a very important city in the middle ages and following the middle ages, but, but now is kind of falling on hard times and isn't well connected.

It doesn't have a fast train or anything to it.

And so because the Episcopal archive was only open an hour a day and many times the priest would... post a note on the door saying, I'm sick today and I can't open the archive for you, I would end up working in this other archive, which ended up having a lot of sources that actually related to these different projects and this line of research.

So it kind of benefited from the lack of access to this ecclesiastical archive by having to look at other resources in the area, because I didn't really want to go three hours in the train and then not do any work and then go back to Barcelona again.

Cause my wife didn't want to live in Tortosa.

The authority of the Franks was formerly confined to that part of Gaul included between the Rhine and the Loire, the Ocean and the Balearic Sea, to that part of Germany which is inhabited by the so-called Eastern Franks, and is bounded by Saxony and the Danube, the Rhine and the Saale—this stream separates the Thuringians from the Sorabians—and to the country of the Alamanni and Bavarians.

By the wars above mentioned he first made tributary Aquitania, Gascony, and the whole of the region of the Pyrenees as far as the river Ebro, which rises in the land of the Navarrese, flows through the most fertile districts of Spain, and empties into the Balearic Sea, beneath the walls of the city of Tortosa.

He next reduced and made tributary all Italy from Aosta to Lower Calabria, where the boundary line runs between the Beneventans and the Greeks, a territory more than a thousand miles long, then Saxony, which constitutes no small part of Germany, and is reckoned to be twice as wide as the country inhabited by the Franks, while about equal to it in length.

In addition, both Pannonias, Dacia beyond the Danube, and Istria, Liburnia, and Dalmatia, except the cities on the coast, which he left to the Greek emperor for friendship's sake, and because of the treaty that he had made with him.

We can we can explore that later.

But he plays a big role in another disputation in Tortosa, one which is not as fair minded as Barcelona and Ramban was earlier in 1263.

Now in Tortosa and the disputation then in the kind of mid 15th century.

There's no chance the Jews are going to win.

In fact, as the dissipation goes on, Geronimo, who was a Jew, of course, is now a Christian priest, starts to just start torturing and killing people who don't convert.