The Jews in Christian Europe, 1400-1700
Author: John Edwards
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780608203348
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John Edwards
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780608203348
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Dr John Edwards
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-06-04
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 1136091564
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This social and religious history of European Jews in the early modern period is unique in placing Jewish experience in the context of Christian society. Beginning with late medieval Jewry and the expulsion from Spain in 1492 of Jews who refused to convert to Christianity, John Edwards goes on to analyse the role of Jews during the Renaissance, the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation, and ends with the early development of religious toleration and the Enlightenment. He examines the complexity of personal and communal belief and practice, and also describes the social, political and economic experience of Jews and Christians, bringing together Christian and Jewish historiography in order to enrich our understanding of the social relations between the two.
Author: John Edwards
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9781315001920
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines the theological roots of Christian antisemitism, its influence on secular policy towards the Jews, its social effects, and the parallel development of a popular antisemitism, consisting of myths and stereotypes of the Jews. Surveys the attitudes of the Catholic and Protestant Churches towards Jews and Judaism, and Jewish reactions, including conversion. Discusses, also, the approach to Judaism in the writings of Luther, Erasmus, and Calvin.
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Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2013-01-01
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1526112698
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Through a broad-ranging collection of documents, John Edwards sets out to present a vivid picture of the Jewish presence in European life during this vital and turbulent period.
Author: Jacob R. Marcus
Publisher: Hebrew Union College Press
Published: 2016-12-31
Total Pages: 746
ISBN-13: 0822981238
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 1938, Jacob Rader Marcus's The Jews in The Medieval World has remained an indispensable resource for its comprehensive view of Jewish historical experience from late antiquity through the early modern period, viewed through primary source documents in English translation. In this new work based on Marcus's classic source book, Marc Saperstein has recast the volume's focus, now fully centered on Christian Europe, updated the work's organizational format, and added seventy-two new annotated sources. In his compelling introduction, Saperstein supplies a modern and thought-provoking discussion of the changing values that influence our understanding of history, analyzing issues surrounding periodization, organization, and inclusion. Through a vast range of documents written by Jews and Christians, including historical narratives, legal opinions, martyrologies, memoirs, polemics, epitaphs, advertisements, folktales, ethical and pedagogical writings, book prefaces and colophons, commentaries, and communal statutes, The Jews in Christian Europe allows the actors and witnesses of events to speak for themselves.
Author: Philippe Buc
Publisher:
Published: 2016-02-09
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9782503565163
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The name of Bernhard Blumenkranz is well known to all those who study the history of European Jews in the Middle Ages and in particular the history of Jewish-Christian relations. Blumenkranz was born in Vienna in 1913; he left for Switzerland during the war and obtained a doctorate at the University of Basel on the portrayal of Jews in the works of Augustine. He subsequently moved to France where his numerous publications revived and renovated the field of Jewish studies. The international group of scholars who wrote the fifteen essays in this volume, beyond paying homage to Blumenkranz's work, trace the trajectories of various lines of inquiry that he initiated: Christian theology of Judaism, problems of conversion and proselytism, geography and topography of Medieval Jewish communities, the representation of Jews in Christian art. These essays provide both an assessment of Blumenkranz's intellectual legacy and a snapshot of the evolution of the field over the last sixty years.
Author: Kenneth Stow
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-01
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780674044050
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This narrative history surveying one thousand years of Jewish life integrates the Jewish experience into the context of the overall culture and society of medieval Europe. It presents a new picture of the interaction between Christians and Jews in this tumultuous era. Alienated Minority shows us what it meant to be a Jew in Europe in the Middle Ages. The story begins in the fifth century, when autonomous Jewish rule in Palestine came to a close, and when the papacy, led by Gregory the Great, established enduring principles regarding Christian policy toward Jews. Kenneth Stow examines the structures of self-government in the European Jewish community and the centrality of emerging concepts of representation. He studies economic enterprise, especially banking; constructs a clear image of the medieval Jewish family; and portrays in detail the very rich Jewish intellectual life. Analyzing policies of Church and State in the Middle Ages, Stow argues that a firmly defined legal and constitutional position of the Jewish minority in the earlier period gave way to a legal status created expressly for Jews, who in the later period were seen as inimical to the common good. It was this special status that paved the way for the royal expulsions of Jews that began at the end of the thirteenth century.
Author: Bernard S. Bachrach
Publisher:
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 124
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contains documents and excerpts from documents of the 4th-9th centuries concerning Jewish-Christian relationships in Europe of the end of the Western Roman Empire and the barbarian kingdoms established in its territory. Pp. 15-43 contain excerpts from law codes, including Roman, Germanic, and canon law. Most of the laws concerning Jews were intended to prevent them from exercising power over Christians, especially over Christian slaves. There were also laws aiming to create unbearable conditions for Jews (and thus to force them to convert "voluntarily") or to humiliate them. The rest of the book relates to papal and royal policies toward Jews, as well as actual Jewish-Christian relationships, which were not always regulated by the laws. Sometimes, however, these relations included conflicts and violence against Jews.