The Jews of Medieval Western Christendom: 1000-1500

by Robert Chazan

Book Overview

Between the years AD 1000 and 1500, western Christendom absorbed by conquest and attracted through immigration a growing number of Jews. This community was to make a valuable contribution to rapidly developing European civilisation but was also to suffer some terrible setbacks, culminating in a series of expulsions from the more advanced westerly areas of Europe. At the same time, vigorous new branches of world Jewry emerged and a rich new Jewish...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521616646
• ISBN13: 9780521616645
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"