The Jews of Europe in the Middle Ages (Tenth to Fifteenth Centuries): Proceedings of the International Symposium held at Speyer, 20-25 October 2002

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The Jews of Europe in the Middle Ages presents the proceedings of an international symposium held at Speyer (Germany) in October, 2002. The collection aims at a comprehensive (and comprehensible) overview describing the variety of historical experience for European Jewries from c. 1000 to c. 1500. Leading European historians firmly based in regional, archival research have here been brought together with a number of Israeli and American scholars who concentrate on legal and constitutional aspects of the Jewish community. Historians working on medieval Mediterranean Jewries (Sicily, Spain, Provence, etc.) and those studying the northern communities (England, Northern France, and Ashkenaz) present their findings in a single, one-language collection. Regional overviews are supplemented by studies on cultural, economic, social, and linguistic aspects as well as by portraits of individual (northern) Jewish communities. The collection highlights the similarities and differences among the various European Jewish cultures, demonstrating that these cultures were no less European than they were Jewish. At the same time, the Jewish heritage has deeply influenced medieval and modern European majority cultures. This cultural symbiosis was epitomized in the European Jewish community (kahal, aljama). Front matter (“Contents”, “List of Illustrations”, “List of Maps”, “Editor’s Foreword”), p. i Free Access The Jews of Europe in the Middle Ages: By Way of Introduction, p. 1 Alfred Haverkamp https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1486 Dimensions of the Subject: Editor’s Notes, p. 17 Free Access Christians and Jews in the High Middle Ages: Christian Views of Jews, p. 19 Anna Sapir Abulafia https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1487 Jews and Christians in the High Middle Ages: The Book of the Pious, p. 29 Peter Schäfer https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1488 The King and the Jews—the Jews in the Ruler’s Service, p. 43 David Abulafia https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1489 Jews and Urban Life: Bonds and Relationships, p. 55 Alfred Haverkamp https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1490 Jewish Community and Territorial Organization in Medieval Europe, p. 71 Yacov Guggenheim https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1491 Around the Mediterranean: Editor’s Notes, p. 93 Free Access Maimonides and Mediterranean Culture, p. 95 Sarah Stroumsa https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1492 Sicily: a Millennium of Convivenza (or almost), p. 105 Shlomo Simonsohn https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1493 Al-Andalus: The So-Called ‘Golden Age’ of Spanish Jewry—a Critical View, p. 123 Menahem Ben-Sasson https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1494 Aragon: Christians, Jews, and Muslims between Coexistence and Conflict, p. 139 Asunción Blasco Martínez https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1495 Castile: an Overview (Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries), p. 151 Miguel Ángel Ladero Quesada https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1496 Navarre: The Other ‘People of the Book’ (c. 1000–1498), p. 163 Juan Carrasco https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1497 Provence: Jewish Settlement, Mobility, and Culture, p. 175 Danièle Iancu-Agou https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1498 Northern and Central Italy: Assessment of Research and Further Prospects, p. 191 Michele Luzzati https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1499 The Northern Jewries, France, England and Ashkenaz: Editor’s Notes, p. 201 Free Access Ẓarfat: Medieval Jewry in Northern France, p. 205 Gérard Nahon https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1500 England: The Island’s Jews and their Economic Pursuits, p. 221 Robin R. Mundill https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1501 Jewish Regional Organization in the Rhineland: The Kehillot Shum around 1300, p. 233 Rainer Barzen https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1502 Ereẓ gezerah—‘Land of Persecution’: Pogroms against the Jews in the regnum Teutonicum from c. 1280 to 1350, p. 245 Jörg R. Müller https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1503 Hungary: The Jews Between Integration and Exclusion, p. 261 Nora Berend https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1504 Aspects of Jewish Social, Economic, and Intellectual History: Editor’s Notes, p. 271 Free Access From Rabbenu Tam to R. Isaac of Vienna: The Hegemony of the French Talmudic School in the Twelfth Century, p. 273 Avraham (Rami) Reiner https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1505 Unpublished Responsa of R. Meir of Rothenburg as a Source for Jewish History, p. 283 Simcha Emanuel https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1506 Halakhah, Taboo and the Origin of Jewish Moneylending in Germany, p. 295 Haym Soloveitchik https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1507 Jewish Moneylending as Reflected in Medieval Account Books: The Example of Vesoul, p. 305 Annegret Holtmann https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1508 Public Roles of Jewish Women in Fourteenth and Fifteenth-Century Ashkenaz: Business, Community and Ritual, p. 317 Martha Keil https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1509 Jews in Medieval European Medicine, p. 331 Kay Peter Jankrift https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1510 Towards an Iconography of Medieval Diaspora Synagogues, p. 341 Vivian B. Mann https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1511 The Early History of the Yiddish Language, p. 353 Erika Timm https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1512 Individual Jewries Through Archival and Archaeological Studies: Editor’s Notes, p. 365 Free Access Cologne, Jewish Centre on the Lower Rhine, p. 367 Matthias Schmandt https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1513 Würzburg: The World’s Largest Find From a Medieval Jewish Cemetery, p. 379 Karlheinz Müller https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1514 Regensburg: The Archaeology of the Medieval Jewish Quarter, p. 391 Silvia Codreanu-Windauer https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1515 Oxford: Mapping the Medieval Jewry, p. 405 Pam Manix https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1516 Speyer: The Medieval Synagogue, p. 421 Monika Porsche https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1517 Speyer: The Jewish Community in the Middle Ages, p. 435 Werner Transier https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1518 Worms: The Jews between the City, the Bishops, and the Crown, p. 449 Gerold Bönnen https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1519 Back matter (“Concluding Remarks”, “Bibliography of Works Cited”, “Index”), p. 459