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How shall we understand the events on New Years Eve in Cologne? As the acts of sexually famished young men? As the reflection of another culture? Religion? Or were they primarily culturally inspired coordinated political acts? Comparison with the medieval charivari institution points in that direction
During Christmas 1205 a group of brave Norwegians set out on a perilous journey in order to bring the heir to the Norwegian throne to safety in Trondheim. Fifty years later the story was told by the king's chronicler, forever turning the feat of the Birkebeiners into a national myth
The medieval roots of the doctrine of papal infallibility are traced in this new book by Donald S. Prudlo
Arabic-Islamic Views of the Latin West provides an insight into how the Arabic-Islamic world perceived medieval Western Europe in an age that is usually associated with the rise and expansion of Islam, the Spanish Reconquista, and the Crusades
Medieval Jews and the Christian Past: Jewish Historical Consciousness in Spain and Southern France
by Ram Ben-Shalom (Author) with Chaya Naor (Translator)
Littman Library Of Jewish Civilization 2016
ISBN-13: 978-1904113904
ISBN-10: 1904113907
The historical consciousness of medieval Jewry has engendered lively debate in the scholarly world. The focus in this book is on the historical consciousness of the Jews of Spain and southern France in the late Middle Ages, and specifically on their perceptions of Christianity and Christian history and culture. In his detailed analysis of Jews’ understanding of the history of the communities they lived among, Ram Ben-Shalom shows that in these southern European lands Jews experienced a relatively open society that was sensitive to and knowledgeable about voices from other cultures, and that this had significant consequences for shaping Jewish historical consciousness. Among the topics that receive special attention are what Jews knew of the significance of Rome, of Jesus and the early days of Christianity, of Church history, and of the history of the Iberian monarchies. Ben-Shalom demonstrates that, despite the negative stereotypes of Jewry prevalent in Christian literature and increasing familiarity with that literature, they were more influenced by their interactions with Christian society at the local level. Consequently, there was no single stereotype that dominated Jewish thought, and frequently little awareness of the two cultures as representing distinct theologies.
This book contributes to medieval Jewish intellectual history on many levels, demonstrating that, in Spain and southern France, Jews of the later Middle Ages evinced a genuine interest in history, including the history of non-Jews, and that in some cases they were deeply familiar with Christian and sometimes also classical historiography. In providing a comprehensive survey of the multiple contexts in which historiographical material was embedded and the many uses to which it was put, it enriches our understanding of medieval historiography, polemic, Jewish-Christian relations, and the breadth of interests characterizing Provencal and Spanish Jewish communities. This fascinating and well-documented study will appeal not only to scholars of Jewish studies and of medieval history and literature, but also to those interested in Christian history and historiography and in the long saga of Jewish-Christian relations. The Hebrew edition of the book was awarded the Samuel Toledano Prize for its contribution to understanding the Sephardi part in its Christian context.
Ram Ben-Shalom is Professor of the History of the Jewish People at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Director of the Center Hispania Judaica; he is a member of the academic board of I-Core Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters and chair of the International Society for Sephardic Studies. He has served as head of the Department of History, Philosophy, and Judaic Studies at the Open University of Israel. He has been a visiting scholar at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, the Institute of Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Humboldt University of Berlin. He has published widely on medieval European Jewish history and is a specialist in the Jewish–Christian discourse of the Middle Ages. The Hebrew edition of the present volume, published in 2006, was awarded the Samuel Toledano Prize for its contribution to understanding the Sephardi past in its Christian context. He is the co-editor of Conflict and Religious Conversation in Latin Christendom (2014). His The Jews of Provence: Renaissance in the Shadow of the Church (Hebrew) is forthcoming, and his current projects include an edition of the letters of a Jewish scribe in Aragon and a study of Isaac Nathan of Arles.
Expulsion of Jews. From: Grandes Chroniques de France 1182
Voice and Voicelessness in Medieval Europe forges connections between medieval voices and contemporary ones, giving "voices" to a fresh generation of scholars
Medieval Jewelry and Burial Assemblages in Croatia have been studied to provide relative and absolute chronologies
We all know what a Viking is: a heathen, gruesome and wild Scandinavian, who sailed, raided and traded throughout Europe from c. 799 – 1066.
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