The Jews in Medieval Normandy: A Social and Intellectual HistoryThis 1998 book is a comprehensive account of the high Hebraic culture developed by the Jews in Normandy during the Middle Ages, and in particular during the Anglo-Norman period. This culture has remained virtually unknown to the public and to the scholarly world throughout modern times, until a combination of recent manuscript discoveries and archaeological findings delineated this phenomenon for the first time. The book explores the origins of this remarkable community, beginning with topographical evidence pointing to the arrival of the Jews in Normandy as early as Roman and Gallo-Roman times, through autograph documentary testimony available in the Cairo Genizah manuscripts and early medieval Latin sources, finally using the rich manuscript evidence of twelfth- and early thirteenth-century writers which attest to the high cultural level attained by this community and to its social and political interaction with the Christian world of Anglo-Norman times and their aftermath. |
Contents
The Extent and Antiquity of Jewish Settlement in Normandy | 33 |
From Robert of Normandy until the First Crusade | 111 |
The Jewish Quarter of Rouen in the Twelfth Century | 137 |
School and Community in the Reign of Henry I and | 171 |
Masters of the Law in the Midtwelfth Century | 217 |
Abraham Ibn Era and his Literary Activities in Normandy | 253 |
Rouennaise Scholars during the | 297 |
The Civil Status of the Jews from Henry II to John Lackland | 349 |
From the Last Years of Philip Augustus to the Reign of Louis IX | 413 |
The Final Decades | 495 |
Appendixes | 547 |
Guibert of Nogents account of the persecution of the Jews | 557 |
The schools of the Jews of royal France Normandy | 563 |
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The Jews in Medieval Normandy: A Social and Intellectual History Norman Golb No preview available - 2012 |
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