Abraham's Heirs: Jews and Christians in Medieval Europe
Leonard B. Glick recounts the history of the Ashkenazic Jewish experience in medieval western Europe from the fifth to fifteenth centuries, focusing on interaction between Jews and Christians during this vital formative period.\ He demonstrates that Ashkenazic Jewish culture was profoundly shaped and conditioned by life in an overwhelmingly Christian society. Drawing on diverse Christian documents, he portrays Christian beliefs about medieval Jews and Judaism with a degree of detail seldom...
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Leonard B. Glick recounts the history of the Ashkenazic Jewish experience in medieval western Europe from the fifth to fifteenth centuries, focusing on interaction between Jews and Christians during this vital formative period.He demonstrates that Ashkenazic Jewish culture was profoundly shaped and conditioned by life in an overwhelmingly Christian society. Drawing on diverse Christian documents, he portrays Christian beliefs about medieval Jews and Judaism with a degree of detail seldom found in Jewish histories.Emphasizing social, political, and economic history, but also discussing religious topics, Glick describes the evolution of a complex, inherently unequal relationship.Because the Ashkenazic Jews of medieval Europe were ancestral to almost the entire Jewish population of eastern Europe, their historical experience played a major role in the heritage of most Jewish Americans. Booknews Anthropologist Glick recounts the history of the Ashkenazic Jewish experience in western Europe between the fifth and fifteenth centuries, focusing on interaction between Jews and Christians. Drawing deeply from Christian documents showing attitudes about medieval Jews and Judaism, argues that the Ashkenazic culture was profoundly shaped and conditioned by the centuries in an overwhelmingly Christian society. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Preface1Abraham's Heirs12The First European Jews263"They Display Documents": Jewish Life in the Carolingian Empire414Cultural Counterpoint: Later Ninth and Tenth Centuries585"To Make a City of My Village": The Pivotal Eleventh Century776"In Witness to the Oneness": The First Crusade and the Jews of the Rhineland917Christian Renewal, Jewish Decline: The Twelfth Century1118Encounters and Representations: Jews and Christians in Twelfth-Century Cultural Life1309"The Yoke of Servitude": Late Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries15510"Reveal No Secrets": Maintaining a Culture in a Hostile World17811"Our Property": Jews in Twelfth-and Thirteenth-Century England20412"Odious to God and Men": Persecutions and Expulsions234Notes277Works Cited301Index313
\ BooknewsAnthropologist Glick recounts the history of the Ashkenazic Jewish experience in western Europe between the fifth and fifteenth centuries, focusing on interaction between Jews and Christians. Drawing deeply from Christian documents showing attitudes about medieval Jews and Judaism, argues that the Ashkenazic culture was profoundly shaped and conditioned by the centuries in an overwhelmingly Christian society. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.\ \
