Jews of Medieval Western Christendom, 1000-1500

Name: Jews of Medieval Western Christendom, 1000-1500
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ISBN: 9780521616645

ISBN-10: 0521616646

ISBN-13: 9780521616645

Edition: 2006

Authors: Robert Chazan

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Between the years AD 1000 and 1500, western Christendom absorbed by conquest and attracted through immigration a growing number of Jews. This community was to make a valuable contribution to rapidly developing European civilisation but was also to suffer some terrible setbacks, culminating in a series of expulsions from the more advanced westerly areas of Europe. At the same time, vigorous new branches of world Jewry emerged and a rich new Jewish cultural legacy was created. In this important new historical synthesis, Robert Chazan discusses the Jewish experience over a 500 year period across the entire continent of Europe. As well as being the story of medieval Jewry, the book…

Book details

List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/23/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 362
Size: 5.39" wide x 8.39" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



List of maps


Preface


Introduction



Prior legacies


The Muslim legacy


The Christian legacy


The Jewish legacy



The pan-European Roman Catholic Church


Theological doctrine


Ecclesiastical policies


Imagery of Judaism and the Jews


Cultural and spiritual creativity: danger, challenge, stimulus


Looking ahead



The older Jewries of the south


Southern France


Christian Spain


Italy and Sicily



The newer Jewries of the north: northern France and England


Northern France


England



The newer Jewries of the north: Germany and Eastern Europe


Germany


Eastern Europe



Material challenges, successes, and failures


Obstacles and attractions


The governing authorities


Successes


The dynamics of deterioration



Spiritual challenges, successes, and failures


Proselytizing, conversion, and resistance


Strengthening traditional lines of Jewish cultural creativity


Innovative lines of cultural creativity


New and creative Jewish cultures


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index