The Jews of Medieval Western Christendom: 1000-1500
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 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.
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Contents
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Christian Spain
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Italy and Sicily
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northern France
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England
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Germany
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Material challenges successes and failures
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Spiritual challenges successes and failures
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Epilogue
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Bibliography
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Index
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Page 158 - ... were they and so eager to inflict pain that it was difficult to say whether they were more cruel or more ingenious in their tortures. For their skill in torturing kept up the strength of their cruelty and ministered arms thereto. And thus, while these enemies of the Christian name were rioting in the spirit of malignity around the boy, some of those present adjudged him to be fixed to a cross in mockery of the Lord's passion, as though they would say, " Even as we condemned the Christ to a shameful...
Page 145 - Know then that the news has reached us to the effect that in the French Kingdom the Jews have become so insolent that by means of their vicious usury, through which they extort not only usury but even usury on usury, they appropriate ecclesiastical goods and Christian possessions. Thus seems to be fulfilled among the Christians that which the prophet bewailed in the case of Jews, saying, "Our heritage has been turned over to strangers, our houses to outsiders.
Page 56 - Christians, in certain other lands there has arisen such confusion that no differences are noticeable. Thus it sometimes happens that by mistake Christians have intercourse with Jewish or Saracen women, and Jews or Saracens with Christian women.
Page 47 - Behold we travel to a distant land to do battle with the kings of that land. We take our lives in our hands in order to kill and to subjugate all those kingdoms that do not believe in the Crucified. How much more so [should we kill and subjugate] the Jews, who killed and crucified him.
Page 51 - Although the Jewish perfidy is in every way worthy of condemnation, nevertheless, because through them the truth of our own Faith is proved, they are not to be severely oppressed by the faithful.
Page 61 - The more the Christian religion refrains from the exaction of usury, the more does the Jewish perfidy become used to this practice, so that in a short time the Jews exhaust the financial strength of the Christians.
Page 149 - A layman, as soon as he hears the Christian faith maligned should defend it by the sword, with a good thrust in the belly as far as the sword will...
Page 56 - Therefore, lest these people, under the cover of an error, find an excuse for the grave sin of such intercourse, we decree that these people (Jews and Saracens) of either sex, and in all Christian lands, and at all times, shall easily be distinguishable from the rest of the populations by the quality of their clothes; especially since such legislation is imposed upon them also by Moses.
Page 123 - Thence it is six days' journey to the great city of Rome. Rome is the head of the kingdoms of Christendom, and contains about 200 Jews, who occupy an honourable position and pay no tribute, and amongst them are officials of the Pope Alexander, who is the head of all Christendom.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Jews of Medieval Western Christendom: 1000-1500 Cambridge Medieval Textbooks |
| Author | Robert Chazan |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2006 |
| ISBN | 0521616646, 9780521616645 |
| Length | 342 pages |
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History / Europe / General History / Europe / Medieval Religion / General Religion / History Religion / Judaism / General Social Science / Jewish Studies |
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