Fashioning Jewish Identity in Medieval Western Christendom

by Robert Chazan

Book Overview

During the course of the twelfth century, increasing numbers of Jews migrated into dynamically developing western Christendom from Islamic lands. The vitality that attracted them also presented a challenge: Christianity - from early in its history - had proclaimed itself heir to a failed Jewish community and thus the vitality of western Christendom was both appealing and threatening to the Jewish immigrants. Indeed, western Christendom was entering...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521831849
• ISBN13: 9780521831840
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"