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Author Abulafia, Anna Sapir

Title Christian-Jewish Relations 1000-1300 Jews in the Service of Medieval Christendom
Edition 2nd ed
Published Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2024

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Description 1 online resource (253 p.)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Editor's Preface to the first edition (2009) -- Preface to the first edition -- Preface to the second edition -- Publisher's Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Maps -- Part I The Antecedents of Jewish Service -- 1 Augustine and Roman Law -- Augustine -- Rome and the Destruction of the Temple -- Roman Law -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2 Gregory the Great and Canon Law -- Gregory's Decretals -- Gregory's Outlook On Jews -- Service and Conversion in Canon Law -- Visigothic Canons
Conclusion -- Notes -- Part II The Political and Socio-Economic Realities of Jewish Service -- 3 The Jews of Germany -- Settlement and Economic Activities -- The German Emperor and the Jews -- Henry IV's Privileges for Speyer and Worms -- Speyer -- Worms -- Jewish Cultural Life -- Regensburg -- Papal Rulings -- The Language of Jewish Service -- Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg -- Notes -- 4 The Jews of France -- Philip Augustus -- Louis VIII -- Champagne -- Rashi and the Tosafists -- Louis VIII's Inheritance -- Louis IX -- Philip III and Charles II of Anjou -- Philip IV -- Expulsions -- Notes
5 The Jews of England -- Changing Money and Trading in Plate -- Moneylending in the King's Service -- Violence in 1189-90 -- Recovery -- Jewish Life -- John and the First Half of Henry III's Reign -- The Second Half of Henry III's Reign -- Edward I -- Notes -- 6 The Jews of the Latin Mediterranean -- A Tradition of Convivencia -- Opportunities in Newly Conquered Territories -- The Fueros of Cuenca and Teruel -- The Siete Partidas -- Jewish Quarters -- Majorca -- Jewish Cultural Life -- Southern France -- Southern Italy and Rome -- Notes
Part III The Religious and Cultural Ambiguities of Jewish Service -- 7 Jewish Experience of the Crusades -- Reform -- Preaching the First Crusade -- The Dangers of Crusading Rhetoric -- Rouen -- The Hebrew Chronicles of the First Crusade -- The Second Crusade -- The Third Crusade -- Later Crusades and Conclusion -- Notes -- 8 Anti-Jewish Libels -- Antiquity -- William of Norwich -- Marian Miracle Stories -- Norwich, Bury, Gloucester -- Richard of Devizes -- Early Suggestions of Cannibalism -- Bray Or Brie -- Blois -- Germany -- Hugh of Lincoln -- Troyes -- Accusations of Host-Desecration -- Notes
9 Jewish Service in Encounters Between Christians and Jews -- Jewish Service -- Jewish Responses -- Christian Learning -- The Ordinary Gloss On the Bible -- Canon Law -- Christian-Jewish Disputations -- The Talmud -- Usury -- Alleged Jewish Violence -- The Song of Songs -- Christian Hebraism -- Notes -- 10 Conclusion -- Note -- Further Reading -- Index
Summary This new and revised edition of Christian-Jewish Relations 1000-1300 expands its survey of medieval Christian-Jewish relations in England, Spain, France and Germany with new material on canon law, biblical exegesis, and Christian-Jewish polemics, along with an updated Further Reading section
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781040105429
1040105424