The contributors' analyses of people, events and texts seek to provide a balanced perspective on the fate of 12th-century Jewish communities. They reveal that there is considerable evidence that old routines and interactions between Christians and Jews persisted throughout this period.
The contributors' analyses of people, events and texts seek to provide a balanced perspective on the fate of 12th-century Jewish communities. They rev...
These essays aim to provide a balanced perspective on the fate of 12th-century Jewish communities. The essays highlight areas of common or parallel activity between Jews and Christians, showing that interactions continued even after the attack on the Jews by marauding crusaders in 1096.
These essays aim to provide a balanced perspective on the fate of 12th-century Jewish communities. The essays highlight areas of common or parallel ac...
Writing for general readers both within and outside the religions, North American historians and theologians explore Jewish and Christian beliefs and practices in Europe before 1600. The 16 essays are intended to stimulate further historical research within the tension between present-day questions, historical sources, and methodological queries. T
Writing for general readers both within and outside the religions, North American historians and theologians explore Jewish and Christian beliefs and ...
Transforming Relations is a collection of original essays on the history of Jews and Christians in antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the modern era that honors the influential work of Michael A. Signer (1945-2009). Reflecting the breadth of Signer's research and pedagogical interests, the essays treat various aspects of the Jewish-Christian relationship through the centuries, from the divine law in antiquity to philosemitism in contemporary Christianity, from scriptural interpretation in the twelfth century to Christian Hebraism in the fifteenth, and from the presentation of...
Transforming Relations is a collection of original essays on the history of Jews and Christians in antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the moder...
The long twelfth century 1050 to 1215 embraces one of the transformative moments in European history: the point, for some, at which Europe first truly became Europe. Historians have used the terms renaissance, reformation, and revolution to account for the dynamism of intellectual, religious, and structural renewal manifest across schools, monasteries, courts, and churches. Complicating the story, more recent historical work has highlighted manifestations of social crisis and oppression. In European Transformations: The Long Twelfth Century, nineteen accomplished medievalists...
The long twelfth century 1050 to 1215 embraces one of the transformative moments in European history: the point, for some, at which Europe first tr...
