Jews and Christians in Thirteenth-Century France

✍ Scribed by Elisheva Baumgarten, Judah D. Galinsky (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 296
• Series: The New Middle Ages
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A period of great change for Europe, the thirteenth-century was a time of both animosity and intimacy for Jewish and Christian communities. In this wide-ranging collection, scholars discuss the changing paradigms in the research and history of Jews and Christians in medieval Europe, discussing law, scholarly pursuits, art, culture, and poetry.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxv
Introduction: Jews and Christians in Thirteenth-Century France....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Continuity and Change in the Study of the Bible: The Ten Commandments in Christian Exegesis....Pages 17-30
Psalters for Men, Books of Hours for Women: Arras as a Case Study....Pages 31-47
What Happened to Christian Hebraism in the Thirteenth Century?....Pages 49-63
“I Have Asked for Nothing Except the Ius Commune”: Legal Change in Thirteenth-Century France....Pages 65-76
Between Ashkenaz (Germany) and Tsarfat (France): Two Approaches toward Popularizing Jewish Law....Pages 77-92
Authority, Control, and Conflict in Thirteenth-Century Paris: Contextualizing the Talmud Trial....Pages 93-110
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
Joseph ben Nathan’s Sefer Yosef ha-Mekanné and the Medieval Jewish Critique of Christianity....Pages 113-122
How, When, and to What Degree Was the Jewish-Christian Debate Transformed in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries?....Pages 123-137
Of Milk and Blood: Innocent III and the Jews, Revisited....Pages 139-149
The Image of Christians in Medieval Ashkenazic Rabbinic Literature....Pages 151-167
Jews “Feigning Devotion”: Christian Representations of Converted Jews in French Chronicles before and after the Expulsion of 1306....Pages 169-182
Women behind the Law: Lay Religious Women in Thirteenth-Century France and the Problem of Textual Resistance....Pages 183-199
Front Matter....Pages 201-201
Mirroring Samson the Martyr: Reflections of Jewish-Christian Relations in the North French Hebrew Illuminated Miscellany....Pages 203-216
The Lament on the Martyrs of Troyes as a Monument of Judeo-French on the Verge of the Expulsions....Pages 217-233
Exegesis and Romance: Revisiting the Old French Translation of Kallir....Pages 235-257
Abstinence in Medieval Northern France: A Comparison of “A Slave for Seven Years” in Sefer ha-ma‘asim to “The Life of St. Alexis....Pages 259-272
Back Matter....Pages 273-282

✦ Subjects

Early Modern/Renaissance Literature;Medieval Literature;Anthropology;Sociology of Religion;Social Aspects of Religion;Cultural Anthropology