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This essay, originally drafted in Catalan, has been translated and revised for publication by Monica H. Green and Carol Symes.1 Museu Comarcal de l'Urgell-Tàrrega, "Tragèdia al Call. Tàrrega 1348" [accessed April 23, 2014]. A catalogue of the exhibition is available at . All skeletal samples referenced in this study derive from the medieval Jewish cemetery of Les Roquetes and are curated at the Museu Comarcal de l'Urgell-Tàrrega. There is no identifying information associated with any of these individuals (i.e., there are no burial records for this cemetery or coffin plates that identify interred individuals by name), and thus this research does not constitute any risk to living descendants. All the research at the site has been conducted in accordance with the Llei 9/1993, de 30 de setembre, del Patrimoni Cultural Català and the Decret 78/2002, de 5 de març, del Reglament de protecció del patrimoni arqueològic i Paleontològic. 2 Much of this local documentation, created by Christian authorities, was assembled and published by López (1956); see below.

In 2007, excavations in a suburb of the Catalan town of Tàrrega identified the possible location of the medieval Jewish cemetery. Subsequent excavations confirmed that multiple individuals buried in six communal graves had suffered violent deaths. The present study argues that these communal graves can be connected to a well-documented assault on the Jews of Tàrrega that occurred in 1348: long known as one of the earliest episodes of anti-Jewish violence related to the Black Death, but never before corroborated by physical remains. This study places textual sources, both Christian and Jewish, alongside the recently discovered archeological evidence of the violence.

This essay, originally drafted in Catalan, has been translated and revised for publication by Monica H. Green and Carol Symes. 1 Museu Comarcal de l'Urgell-Tàrrega, "Tragèdia al Call. Tàrrega 1348" [accessed April 23, 2014]. A catalogue of the exhibition is available at . All skeletal samples referenced in this study derive from the medieval Jewish cemetery of Les Roquetes and are curated at the Museu Comarcal de l'Urgell-Tàrrega. There is no identifying information associated with any of these individuals (i.e., there are no burial records for this cemetery or coffin plates that identify interred individuals by name), and thus this research does not constitute any risk to living descendants. All the research at the site has been conducted in accordance with the Llei 9/1993, de 30 de setembre, del Patrimoni Cultural Català and the Decret 78/2002, de 5 de març, del Reglament de protecció del patrimoni arqueològic i Paleontològic. 2 Much of this local documentation, created by Christian authorities, was assembled and published by López (1956); see below. the Medieval Globe 1 (2014) pp. 63-96

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