Lectures Eleven through Fourteen: Medieval Europe

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

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Daggers of Faith

Jeremy Cohen,

The Friars and the Jews

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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, T

wo 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 Judaeos

Literature

-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)