Abstract
This chapter explores the relationship between medieval representations of courtiers as hypocritical and the reality of Jews in medieval courts by focusing on Jewish associations that stalk one Spanish word and office it came to designate. The word is privado , and the office that of administrative confidante, close counselor, intimate minister. In the first half of thirteenth century the words privado and privanca emerge suddenly into full view. Miracle XXV tells the story of a bishop's privado named Teofilo, who ran things so smoothly that no business interrupted the pontiff's prayers. Retelling the story a generation after Berceo, compilers of King Alfonso X's Cantigas de Santa Maria visualized that thirst through a Satanic court with all the trappings of earthly kingship, a court in which the beckoning Jew represents the perils of carnal politics. Privanca is an intimate relation in which the love is meant to guarantee politics. Keywords:Alfonso; Christian politics; Jews; kingship; medieval courts; privado ; Privanca ; Teofilo
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