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The book contains sixteen articles divided according to three themes: “Learning, Law, and Society,” “Polemics, Persecutions, and Mutual Perceptions,” and “Cultural Expressions and Appropriations: Art, Poetry, and Literature.” They were written by a broad range of scholars, some very well known, others who will soon be
What constitutes France in the thirteenth century? Is thirteenth century France, if it can be said to exist, the same for the Jews and Christians of the title? Again, Baumgarten and Galinsky are aware of this problem and address it in the introduction, with regard to the tendency to lump together the Jews of Ashkenaz (Germany and France)
Jessica Marin Elliott, in “Jews ‘Feigning Devotion’: Christian Representations of Converted Jews in French Chronicles before and after the Expulsion of 1306,” looks at a variety of Christian chronicles written in France and the lowlands in the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries dealing with Jewish converts
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The book contains sixteen articles divided according to three themes: “Learning, Law, and Society,” “Polemics, Persecutions, and Mutual Perceptions,” and “Cultural Expressions and Appropriations: Art, Poetry, and Literature.” They were written by a broad range of scholars, some very well known, others who will soon be. Eds. Jews and Christians in Thirteenth-Century France (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) xxv + 282 pp. We define our periods in terms of centuries, as that allows us to make general statements with greater ease.
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