The Jews of Medieval Western Christendom, 1000-1500 / Robert Chazan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chazan, Robert.

Series:

Cambridge medieval textbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--History--70-1789.

Jews.

History.

Jews--Europe, Western--History--To 1500.

Christianity and other religions--Judaism--History.

Christianity and other religions.

Judaism.

Judaism--Relations--Christianity--History.

Relations.

Christianity.

Western Europe.

Physical Description:

xv, 342 pages : maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Summary:

Between the years 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 simultaneously illuminates important aspects of majority life in Europe during this period. This book is essential reading for all students of medieval Jewish history and an important reference for any scholar of medieval Europe.

Contents:

Introduction

1. Prior legacies

2. The pan-European Roman Catholic Church

3. The older Jewries of the south

4. The newer Jewries of the north : northern France and England

5. The newer Jewries of the north : Germany and Eastern Europe

6. Material challenges, successes, and failures

7. Spiritual challenges, successes, and failures.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-320) and index.

ISBN:

0521846668

9780521846660

0521616646

9780521616645

OCLC:

70764842