Once embedded in Castilian political theology, the Jewess reveals a good deal about how and why charges of Jew-love and Judaizing were deployed in late medieval conflicts over new forms of monarchical power, centralizing government, and administration. This article begins with the story's first appearance toward the end of the thirteenth century and traces its expansion across several hundred years, in order to describe the roles played by figures of Judaism (and of women) in enacting and representing conflict within Christian politics. The story of King Alfonso VIII of Castile's affair with a Jewess of Toledo is perhaps the most famous medieval account of love between a Christian and a Jew.
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