Jews and Christians in Twelfth-Century Europe

by Michael A. Signer

Book Overview

In the summer of 1096, marauding crusaders attacked Jewish communities in three Rhineland cities. These violent episodes disrupted what had been a fairly peaceful history of coexistence between Jews and Christians for more than two centuries. Although the two groups inhabited fundamentally different religious universes, Jews and Christians lived in the same towns, on the same streets, and pursued their lives with minimal interference, often with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268032548
• ISBN13: 9780268032548
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"