The Jews of Medieval Western Christendom: 1000-1500 » (1st Edition)

Dr. Robert Chazan is currently S. H. and Helen R. Scheur Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University.

A comprehensive synthesis of medieval Jewish history between AD 1000 and 1500.

List of maps     ix
Preface     xi
Introduction     1
Prior legacies     23
The Muslim legacy     24
The Christian legacy     27
The Jewish legacy     30
The pan-European Roman Catholic Church     43
Theological doctrine     44
Ecclesiastical policies     51
Imagery of Judaism and the Jews     66
Cultural and spiritual creativity: danger, challenge, stimulus     70
Looking ahead     75
The older Jewries of the south     77
Southern France     78
Christian Spain     90
Italy and Sicily     115
The newer Jewries of the north: northern France and England     129
Northern France     131
England     154
The newer Jewries of the north: Germany and Eastern Europe     169
Germany     170
Eastern Europe     198
Material challenges, successes, and failures     209
Obstacles and attractions     210
The governing authorities     219
Successes     231
The dynamics of deterioration     239
Spiritual challenges, successes, andfailures     243
Proselytizing, conversion, and resistance     247
Strengthening traditional lines of Jewish cultural creativity     257
Innovative lines of cultural creativity     267
New and creative Jewish cultures     282
Epilogue     285
Notes     289
Bibliography     313
Index     321