Author: Guido KischPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : de
Pages : 344
Book Description
Forschungen zur Rechts- und Sozialgeschichte der Juden in Deutschland während des Mittelalters
Author: Guido KischForschungen zur Rechts- und Sozialgeschichte der Juden in Deutschland des Mittelalters
Author: Guido KischForschungen zur Rechts- und Sozialgeschichte der Juden in Deutschland während des Mittelalters : nebst Bibliographien
Author: [Anonymus AC01462173]Publisher:
ISBN: 9783799560160
Category :
Languages : de
Pages : 336
Book Description
Forschungen zur Rechts- und Sozialgeschichte der Juden in Deutschland waehrend des Mittelalters
Author: Forschungen zur Rechts-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte der Juden
Author: Guido KischZur Rechts- und Sozialgeschichte der Juden in Deutschland im Mittelalter
Author: Selma SternAusgewählte Schriften
Author: Guido KischJohannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy Jewish Books
Author: David PricePublisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195394216
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The early sixteenth century saw a major crisis in Christian-Jewish relations: the attempt to confiscate and destroy every Jewish book in Germany. This unprecedented effort to end the practice of Judaism throughout the empire was challenged by Jewish communities, and, unexpectedly, by Johannes Reuchlin (1455-1522), the founder of Christian Hebrew studies. In 1510, Reuchlin wrote an extensive, impassioned, and ultimately successful defense of Jewish writings and legal rights, a stunning intervention later acknowledged by a Jewish leader as a ''miracle within a miracle.''The fury that greeted Reuchlin's defense of Judaism resulted in a protracted heresy trial that polarized Europe. The decade-long controversy promoted acceptance of humanist culture in northern Europe and, in several key settings, created an environment that was receptive to the nascent Reformation movement. The legal and theological battles over charges that Reuchlin's positions were "impermissibly favorable to Jews," a conflict that elicited intervention on both sides from the most powerful political and intellectual leaders in Renaissance Europe, formed a new context for Christian reflection on Judaism.David H. Price offers insight into important Christian discourses on Judaism and anti-Semitism that emerged from the clash of Renaissance humanism with this potent anti-Jewish campaign, as well as an innovative analysis of Luther's virulent anti-Semitism in the context and aftermath of the Reuchlin Affair. This book is a valuable contribution to study of an important and complex development in European history: Christians acquiring accurate knowledge of Judaism and its history.
Peasants and Jews in Medieval Germany
Author: Michael TochPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000939839
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
The studies collected here centre on the social and economic life of medieval Germany, within a broader European context. The first three articles engage the day-to-day workings of rural society: literature, verbal attack and the language of mediated settlement of conflicts lead to a nuanced view of social hierarchy, in which the meek too have a say. The next group examines some major elements of rural life, dealing with technology, resources, ecology, transport, communication and credit. In the second part, the author focuses on the life of the Jews in Germany, first charting the process of settlement of Jews in Germany, the dynamics of social stratification and household composition, and the impact of economics and persecution on settlement patterns. A case study uncovers the motives and steps that led up to the expulsion of the Jews of Nuremberg in 1498. These themes are followed up into the early modern period, when German Jewry mostly came to live a village life. The last studies deal with the economic history of medieval European Jews, including professions other than moneylending, and with the function of women in economic life.
Social and Religious History of the Jews
Author: Salo Wittmayer BaronPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231088466
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
This book explores the puzzling phenomenon of new veiling practices among lower middle class women in Cairo, Egypt. Although these women are part of a modernizing middle class, they also voluntarily adopt a traditional symbol of female subordination. How can this paradox be explained? An explanation emerges which reconceptualizes what appears to be reactionary behavior as a new style of political struggle--as accommodating protest. These women, most of them clerical workers in the large government bureaucracy, are ambivalent about working outside the home, considering it a change which brings new burdens as well as some important benefits. At the same time they realize that leaving home and family is creating an intolerable situation of the erosion of their social status and the loss of their traditional identity. The new veiling expresses women's protest against this. MacLeod argues that the symbolism of the new veiling emerges from this tense subcultural dilemma, involving elements of both resistance and acquiescence.