En este artículo los autores analizan la función del cuento como elemento literario de afirmación de la identidad cultural, judía o cristiana, en el mundo hispánico medieval. A modo de ilustración, se presenta un corpus de relatos tomados de obras medievales judías y en fuentes cristianas y que contienen elementos relevantes para el análisis. PalabraS clave: Cuentística medieval; literatura hebrea; marcas de identidad; judíos y cristianos; reinos hispánicos. JewiSh and chriStian identitieS aS dePicted in Medieval Short StorieS: SoMe SPaniSh exeMPleS.-In this article the authors analyze the role of the tale as a literary factor for the assertion of Jewish and Christian cultural identity in late Medieval Iberia. They offer, as an example, a corpus of short stories taken from a range of Jewish and Christian written sources containing elements relevant to the analysis.
We present the critical edition of a fifieenth-Century Castilian version of the Midrash of the Ten Commandments, an exemple book widely known throughout the Jewish medieval communities. Because of its distinctively Jewish character and its date, this text represents a first-range document for the understanding of Spanish converso culture during the decades that precede the expulsion of l492.
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