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9 - Medieval Western Christendom

from Part II - Medieval Times

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2022

By
Robert Chazan
Edited by
Steven Katz
Steven Katz
Affiliation:
Boston University
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Summary

During the second half of the Middle Ages, western Christendom became the most powerful sector of the West, in the process attracting a growing Jewish population. Over the course of these centuries, the Christian majority of western Christendom fashioned damaging new imagery of Jews and harmful new limitations on Jewish life, both of which severely impacted Jewish existence.

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Jewry of northern Europeimagery of Jewstraditional Jewish policyinnovative Jewish policies.
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The Cambridge Companion to Antisemitism , pp. 158 - 175
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Further Reading

Baer, Y., A History of the Jews in Christian Spain, trans. Schoffman, Louis et al., 2 vols. (Philadelphia, 1961–1966). The authoritative reconstruction of Jewish life in Spain subsequent to its reintegration into western Christendom.Google Scholar
Chazan, R., ed., Church, State, and Jew in the Middle Ages (New York, 1980). A collection of useful source materials for studying the history of the Jews in medieval western Christendom during the second half of the Middle Ages.Google Scholar
Chazan, R., The Jews of Medieval Western Christendom 1000–1500 (Cambridge, 2006). A broad overview of Jewish life in medieval western Christendom during the second half of the Middle Ages.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Chazan, R., Reassessing Jewish Life in Medieval Europe (Cambridge, 2010). An examination and explanation of the ways in which the preceding overview of medieval European Jewish life differs from the prevailing views.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cluse, C., ed.. The Jews of Europe in the Middle Ages (Tenth to Fifteenth Centuries) (Turnhout, 2004). Valuable essays on Jewish life in medieval western Christendom during the second half of the Middle Ages.Google Scholar
Jordan, W. C., The French Monarchy and the Jews: From Philip Augustus to the Last of the Capetians (Philadelphia, 1989). Careful reconstruction of Jewish life and royal policy toward the Jews in medieval France.Google Scholar
Kisch, G., The Jews in Medieval Germany: A Study of Their Legal and Social Status (New York, 1970). A broad overview of the history of the Jews in the diverse German principalities by a distinguished legal scholar.Google Scholar
Moore, R. I., The Formation of a Persecuting Society (Oxford, 1987). A pathbreaking study of the enhanced marginalization of a number of medieval minority groups, including the Jews.Google Scholar
Richardson, H. G., The English Jewry under Angevin Kings (London, 1960). A study of medieval English Jewry by a distinguished scholar of medieval England.Google Scholar
Stow, K. R. Alienated Minority: The Jews of Medieval Latin Europe (Cambridge, MA,1992). Another valuable overview of the history of the Jews in medieval western Christendom.Google Scholar

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