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The Jews of Europe in the Middle Ages (tenth to fifteenth centuries) : proceedings of the international symposium held at Speyer, 20-25 October 2002 / edited by Christoph Cluse.

By: International Symposium "The Jews of Europe in the Middle Ages" (2002 : Speyer, Germany)
Contributor(s): Cluse, Christoph
Material type: TextTextSeries: Cultural encounters in late antiquity and the Middle Ages: v. 4.Publisher: Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: xvii, 512 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 2503516971 (alk. paper); 9782503516974 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Jews -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 -- CongressesDDC classification: 940/.04924 LOC classification: DS135.E81 | I67 2002Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The Jews of Europe in the Middle Ages: by the way of introduction / Alfred Haverkamp -- Christians and Jews in the High Middle Ages: Christian views of Jews / Anna Sapir Abulafia -- Jews and Christians in the High Middle Ages: the book of the pious / Peter Schafer -- The king and the Jews-the Jews in the ruler's service / David Abulafia -- Jews and urban life: bonds and relationships / Alfred Haverkamp -- Jewish community and territorial organization in medieval Europe / Yacov Guggenheim -- Maimonides and Mediterranean culture / Sarah Stroumsa -- Sicily: a millennium of convivenza (or almost) / Shlomo Simonsohn -- Al-Andalus: the so-called 'golden age' of Spanish Jewry-a critical view / Menahem Ben-Sasson -- Aragon: Christians, Jews, and Muslims between coexistence and conflict / Asuncion Blasco Martinez -- Castile: an overview (thirteenth to fifteenth centuries) / Miguel Angel Ladero Quesada -- Navarre: the other 'people of the book' (c. 1000 - 1498) / Juan Carrasco -- Provence: Jewish settlement, mobility, and culture / Daniele Iancu-Agou -- Northern and central Italy: assessment of research and further prospects / Michele Luzzati -- Zarfat: medieval Jewry in northern France / Gerard Nahon -- England: the island's Jews and their economic pursuits / Robin R. Mundill -- Jewish regional organization in the Rhineland: the kehillot shum around 1300 / Rainer Barzen -- Erez gezerah-'land of persecution': pogroms against the Jews in the regnum teutonicum from c.1280 to 1350 / Jorg R. Muller -- Hungary: the Jews between integration and exclusion / Nora Berend -- From Rabbenu Tam to R. Isaac of Vienna: the hegemony of the French Talamudic school in the twelfth century / Avraham Reiner -- Unpublished responsa of R. Meir of Rothenburg as a source for Jewish history / Simcha Emanuel -- Halakhah, taboo and the origin of Jewish moneylending in Germany / Haym Soloveitchik -- Jewish moneylending as reflected in medieval account books: the example of Vesoul / Annegret Holtmann -- Public roles of Jewish women in fourteenth and fifteenth-century Ashkenaz: business, community and ritual / Martha Keil -- Jews in medieval European medicine / Kay Peter Jankrift -- Towards an iconography of medieval diaspora synagogues / Vivian B. Mann -- The early history of the Yiddish language / Erika Timm -- Cologne, Jewish centre on the lower Rhine / Matthias Schmandt -- Wurzburg: the world's largest find from a medieval Jewish cemetery / Karlheinz Muller -- Regensburg: the archaeology of the medieval Jewish quarter / Silvia Codreanu-Windauer -- Oxford: mapping the medieval Jewry / Pam Manix -- Speyer: the medieval synagogue / Monika Porsche -- Speyer: the Jewish community in the Middle Ages / Werner Transier -- Worms: the Jewish between the city, the bishops, and the crown / Gerold Bonnen -- Concluding remarks / Christoph Cluse.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Jews of Europe in the Middle Ages: by the way of introduction / Alfred Haverkamp -- Christians and Jews in the High Middle Ages: Christian views of Jews / Anna Sapir Abulafia -- Jews and Christians in the High Middle Ages: the book of the pious / Peter Schafer -- The king and the Jews-the Jews in the ruler's service / David Abulafia -- Jews and urban life: bonds and relationships / Alfred Haverkamp -- Jewish community and territorial organization in medieval Europe / Yacov Guggenheim -- Maimonides and Mediterranean culture / Sarah Stroumsa -- Sicily: a millennium of convivenza (or almost) / Shlomo Simonsohn -- Al-Andalus: the so-called 'golden age' of Spanish Jewry-a critical view / Menahem Ben-Sasson -- Aragon: Christians, Jews, and Muslims between coexistence and conflict / Asuncion Blasco Martinez -- Castile: an overview (thirteenth to fifteenth centuries) / Miguel Angel Ladero Quesada -- Navarre: the other 'people of the book' (c. 1000 - 1498) / Juan Carrasco -- Provence: Jewish settlement, mobility, and culture / Daniele Iancu-Agou -- Northern and central Italy: assessment of research and further prospects / Michele Luzzati -- Zarfat: medieval Jewry in northern France / Gerard Nahon -- England: the island's Jews and their economic pursuits / Robin R. Mundill -- Jewish regional organization in the Rhineland: the kehillot shum around 1300 / Rainer Barzen -- Erez gezerah-'land of persecution': pogroms against the Jews in the regnum teutonicum from c.1280 to 1350 / Jorg R. Muller -- Hungary: the Jews between integration and exclusion / Nora Berend -- From Rabbenu Tam to R. Isaac of Vienna: the hegemony of the French Talamudic school in the twelfth century / Avraham Reiner -- Unpublished responsa of R. Meir of Rothenburg as a source for Jewish history / Simcha Emanuel -- Halakhah, taboo and the origin of Jewish moneylending in Germany / Haym Soloveitchik -- Jewish moneylending as reflected in medieval account books: the example of Vesoul / Annegret Holtmann -- Public roles of Jewish women in fourteenth and fifteenth-century Ashkenaz: business, community and ritual / Martha Keil -- Jews in medieval European medicine / Kay Peter Jankrift -- Towards an iconography of medieval diaspora synagogues / Vivian B. Mann -- The early history of the Yiddish language / Erika Timm -- Cologne, Jewish centre on the lower Rhine / Matthias Schmandt -- Wurzburg: the world's largest find from a medieval Jewish cemetery / Karlheinz Muller -- Regensburg: the archaeology of the medieval Jewish quarter / Silvia Codreanu-Windauer -- Oxford: mapping the medieval Jewry / Pam Manix -- Speyer: the medieval synagogue / Monika Porsche -- Speyer: the Jewish community in the Middle Ages / Werner Transier -- Worms: the Jewish between the city, the bishops, and the crown / Gerold Bonnen -- Concluding remarks / Christoph Cluse.

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