How accurate is the perception that Spain underwent a transformation from an open and tolerant society in the late middle ages to a closed and intolerant one in the early modern period?

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The Jews, for their part, made an essential contribution as artisans and small producers, in leather, jewellery and textiles. They were also important in tax administration and in medicine. The three faiths had coexisted long enough for many people to accept the validity of the three...
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Thus, in 1501, a Christian of Castile asked ?Who knows which is the better religion, ours or those of the Muslims and the Jews?'. The atmosphere of this mixed cultural world is depicted in the miniatures which illustrate Alfonso X's Book of Chess.. Also, one of the 1000 miniatures pictures two jongleurs, one of them a Moor and the other a Christian dressed in the Provencal fashion, singing a duet and playing lutes together...
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