European Jewry and the First Crusade / Robert Chazan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chazan, Robert, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crusades--First, 1096-1099--Jews--Germany.

Crusades.

Jews--Germany--History--1096-1147.

Jews.

Jews--Persecutions--Germany.

Germany--Ethnic relations.

Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 380 p. )

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1987]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

One of the unanticipated results of the First Crusade in 1095 was a series of violent assaults on major Jewish communities in the Rhineland. Robert Chazan offers the first detailed analysis of these events, illuminating the attitudes that triggered the assaults as well as the beliefs that informed Jewish reactions to them.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

I. The Background

II. The Sources and Their Reliability

III. The Violence of 1096

IV. The Patterns of Response

V. Subsequent Jewish Reactions

VI. The Church, the Jews, and the Later Crusades

VII. Glances Backward and Forward

Appendix. The Hebrew First-Crusade Chronicles

Abbreviations

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780585176444

0585176442

9780520917767

0520917766

OCLC:

1163878247