The Cambridge History of Judaism
Volume 6, The Middle Ages: The Christian World
Edited by Robert Chazan (New York University)
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018
Contents
Introduction
by Robert Chazan
Part I - Jews in the Medieval Christian World
Chapter 1 - The Prior Church Legacy
by Robert Chazan
Chapter 2 - Medieval Church Doctrines and Politics
by Anna Sapir Abulafia
Chapter 3 - Mutual Perceptions and Attitudes
by David Berger
Chapter 4 - Byzantium
by Nicholas De Lange
Chapter 5 - Italy
by David Abulafia & Robert Bonfil
Chapter 6 - The Iberian Peninsula
by Yom Tov Assis & Mark Meyerson
Chapter 7 - Southern France
by Ram Ben-Shalom
Chapter 8 - Northwestern Europe
by Robert Chazan
Chapter 9 - Germany
by Alfred Haverkamp
Chapter 10 - Northeastern Europe
by Nora Berend
Part II - Social and Institutional History
Chapter 11 - The Sources
by Ephraim Shoham-Steiner
Chapter 12 - Demography and Migrations
by Michael Toch
Chapter 13 - Economic Activities
by Michael Toch
Chapter 14 - Communal and Religious Organization
by Jeffrey Woolf
Chapter 15 - Schools and Education
by Ephraim Kanarfogel
Chapter 16 - Annual Cycle and Life Cycle
by Elisheva Baumgarten
Chapter 17 - The Family
by Elisheva Baumgarten
Part III - Spiritual and Intellectual History
Chapter 18 - The Sources
by Daniel J. Lasker
Chapter 19 - Languages and Translations
by David M. Bunis & James T. Robinson
Chapter 20 - Book Production
by Malachi Beit-Arie
Chapter 21 - Bible Studies
by Martin Lockshin
Chapter 22 - Talmudic Studies
by Ephraim Kanarfogel
Chapter 23 - Jewish Law
by Alyssa M. Gray
Chapter 24 - Liturgy and Piyut
by Stefan C. Reif & Elisabeth Hollender
Chapter 25 - Philosophy
by Mauro Zonta
Chapter 26 - Science and Medicine
by Gad Freudenthal
Chapter 27 - Mysticism
by Elliot R. Wolfson
Chapter 28 - Belles-Lettres
by Jonathan P. Decter
Chapter 29 - Polemics
by Daniel J. Lasker
Chapter 30 - Historiography
by Eva Haverkamp
Chapter 31 - Material Culture and Art
by Katrin Kogman-Appel
Suggested Readings
Index
Book Description
Volume 6 examines the history of Judaism during the second half of the Middle Ages. Through the first half of the Middle Ages, the Jewish communities of western Christendom lagged well behind those of eastern Christendom and the even more impressive Jewries of the Islamic world. As Western Christendom began its remarkable surge forward in the eleventh century, this progress had an impact on the Jewish minority as well. The older Jewries of southern Europe grew and became more productive in every sense. Even more strikingly, a new set of Jewries were created across northern Europe, when this undeveloped area was strengthened demographically, economically, militarily, and culturally. From the smallest and weakest of the world's Jewish centers in the year 1000, the Jewish communities of western Christendom emerged - despite considerable obstacles - as the world's dominant Jewish center by the end of the Middle Ages. This demographic, economic, cultural, and spiritual dominance was maintained down into modernity.
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Published in the Cambridge History of Judaism Series
Volume 1, Introduction: The Persian Period
Volume 2, The Hellenistic Age
Volume 3, The Early Roman Period
Volume 4, The Late Roman-Rabbinic Period
Volume 6, The Christian World
Volume 7, The Early Modern World, 1500-1815
Volume 8, The Modern World, 1815-2000
