Lectures Eleven through Fourteen: Medieval Europe
Middle Ages Lectures
THEO 40217: Jews and Christians Throughout History
Jewish-Christian Encounter: The Middle Ages Lecture Notes
Bibliography
Anna Sapir Abulafia,Jews and Christians in the 12th Century Renaissance
David Berger,The Jewish-Christian Debate in the High Middle Ages
Robert Chazan,Medieval Jewry in Northern France
------------------,Daggers of Faith
Jeremy Cohen,The Friars and the Jews
-----------------,Living Letters of the Law: Ideas of the Jew in Medieval Christianity
Gilbert Dahan,The Christian Polemic against the Jews in the Middle Ages
Gavin Langmuir,History, Religion, Antisemitism
R. I. Moore,The Formation of a Persecuting Society
Robert Seltzer,Jewish People, Jewish Thought
Michael A. Signer/ John H. Van Engen:Jews and Christians in 12th Century Europe
Kenneth Stow,Alienated Minority
Edward A. Synan,The Popes and the Jews in the Middle Ages
Israel Jacob Yuval, Two Nations are in your Womb: Perceptions of Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Geographic Framework
Iberian Jewry [Sephardim]: pre-Christian origins/Islamic hegemony
Northern European Jewry [Ashkenazim]: 9th century origin/Christian hegemony
Chronological Framework
Period I: 800-1050: Origins
-small Jewish population
-Latin documents
-Jewish legal status
Period II: 1050-1215: Expansion and Resistance
-growth of Jewish population
-Crusading movement
-private disputations: Adversus JudaeosLiterature
-collaboration in biblical studies: Abbey of St. Victor, Paris
-ritual murder charges
Period III: 1215-1500: Breakdown
-IV Lateran
-Rise of Mendicant Orders
-Public Disputations: Paris (1240), Barcelona (1263), Tortosa (1413-1414)
-Expulsions: England (1290), France (1306), Spain (1492)


















