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Book SynopsisThis narrative history surveying one thousand years of Jewish life integrates the Jewish experience into the context of the overall culture and society of medieval Europe. It presents a new picture of the interaction between Christians and Jews in this tumultuous era.
Trade Review[An] enlightening and learned book. -- Mark Miller * The Forward *
What has heretofore been lacking both to students of medieval Jewish history and to general historians is a manageable, yet in-depth, analysis in English of the medieval Jewish experience. Stow provides such a study. -- Steven Bowman * Religious Studies Review *
In exemplary fashion, Stow blends Jewish and Christian sources, a meld lamentably lacking in other English-language studies of similar topics. * Choice *
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. A Christianizing Society 2. Early Medieval Realities 3. Cultural Beginnings 4. Maturing Culture and Politics 5. The Crusades 6. Hasidei Ashkenaz 7. Exegesis 8. Community 9. Family 10. Economics 11. Instability and Decline 12. Expulsion Bibliography Index
