Reassessing Jewish life in Medieval Europe /
"This book re-evaluates the prevailing notion that Jews in medieval Christian Europe lived under an appalling regime of ecclesiastical limitation, governmental exploitation and expropriation, and unceasing popular violence. Robert Chazan argues that, while Jewish life in medieval Western Christ...
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Prologue: group narratives: tenacity and accuracy; Introduction: the emergence of medieval European Jewry; Part I. Historical Schemes: 1. The Jewish middle age: the Jewish view; 2. The Jewish middle age: the Christian view; 3. The European middle ages; 4. The European Jewish middle ages; Part II. Historical Themes: 5. Demographic movement and change; 6. Economic activity; 7. Status; 8. Relocations within the Christian populace; 9. Identity; Epilogue.