Early medieval Jewish policy in Western Europe / by Bernard S. Bachrach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bachrach, Bernard S., 1939-2023.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--History--70-1789.

Jews.

Jews--Legal status, laws, etc--Europe.

Europe--Politics and government--476-1492.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 213 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1977.

Summary:

This is the first study of early medieval Jewish policy in the West which examines the nature of this policy from the perspective and aims of its formulators. As the author points out, most specialists in Jewish history have been dominated by what the historian Salo Baron has called the "lachrymose conception, ' a view which emphasized persecution and suffering as a fundamental theme of Jewish history. Professor Bachrach challenges this view and attacks what he calls the myth of Christian church domination of the early medieval world.

Contents:

CHAPTER I: Visigothic Jewish Policy

CHAPTER II: Jewish Policy in Early Medieval Italy (476-774)

CHAPTER III: Merovingian Jewish Policy

CHAPTER IV: Jewish Policy in the Early Carolingian Empire and Its Environs

CHAPTER V: Jewish Policy under Louis the Pious (814-840) and in the Environs of the Empire

CHAPTER VI: Jewish Policy in the Carolingian Empire and Its Environs during the Period of Dissolution (840-877)

CHAPTER VII: Conclusions

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 192-203) and index.

ISBN:

9780816661251

0816661251

9780816608140

0816608148

OCLC:

55648111

Publisher Number:

2027/heb01521 hdl