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The fuero granted by the Crown to Cuenca, a frontier town in Medieval Castile served as a model for many town, and in this respect this fuero was significant. In this frontier town the Jewish and Muslim settlers were given various privileges similar to the Christian ones. As king's serfs they could flourish economically under the protection of the Crown. The king's attitude to Jews and Muslims rested on their political and economic benefit. But although the open society in frontier provided them with new opportunities, there existed many laws such as the restriction of the use of the public baths and the interdiction of Jewish-Christian sexual relation. The primary objective of these laws is to prevent social contact and reproduce the social boundary. In this respect there wasn't convivencia(living together) of equals. Christian policy was one of discriminatory and limited toleration. The religious minorities in fact couldn't be incorporated into Christian community, since Christian principle in society couldn't help coming into collision with the lives of religious minorities.