Matthew Innes

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This is the first book to investigate how people in the early middle ages used the past: to legitimate the present, to understand current events, and as a source of identity. Each essay examines the mechanisms by which ideas about the past were - sometimes - subtly reshaped for present purposes.

The Uses of the Past in the Early Middle Ages

Thomas F. X. Noble

The essays in this volume attempt to re-evaluate, understand and explain various aspects of Jewish history within the broader historical context of the post-Roman Barbarian world. They address a wide variety of topics, sources, and geographies, and together they provide a nuanced and more balanced history of the Jews in the early medieval West. Although written independently of one another the various essays collected here reveal a remarkable tension between the "imaginary" (or "hermeneutical")Jew and the "real" one. As this volume demonstrates, Augustine's positive theological understanding of Jews and Judaism was often overshadowed by anti-Jewish sentiments, and consequently anti-Jewish invective remained the drive wheel of Christian theology, especially in the context of debates and polemics among the Christians themselves.

Jews and Judaism in the Early Medieval West

Barbarians and Jews

Amnon Linder, professor of medieval history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has published two seminal studies in the history of the Christian Holy Land and in Jewish-Christian relations in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Jerusalem-Toronto, 1987 and 1997 respectively) but in recent years has dedicated himself to the study of medieval liturgy, particularly Crusader liturgy of the liberation and destruction of Jerusalem. The essays gathered here from friends; colleagues and students of Prof. Linder pick up the themes of Linders publications - medieval law, liturgy and literature. The papers deal with a variety of sources and encompass the fourth to fifteenth centuries and span from the Holy Land to the British Isles and present different methodologies. They are organized chronologically and comprise the following papers: O. Limor; Reading Sacred Space: Egeria; Paula; and the Christian Holy Land B.-S. Albert; Le judaisme et les juifs dans l'hagiographie et la liturgie visigothique Y. Hen; Educating the Clergy: Canon Law and Liturgy in a Carolingian Handbook from the Time of Charles the Bald B. Z. Kedar; Convergence of Oriental Christian; Muslim; and Frankish Worshippers: The Case of Saydnaya S. Schein; Servise de Marriage and Law Enforcement in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem Y. Friedman; Did Laws of War Exist in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem D. Jacoby, Pilgrimage in Crusader Acre: The Pardouns dAcre P. B. Roberts; Sermons, Preachers, and the Law A. M. Kleinberg; Depriving Parents of the Consolation of Children: Two Legal Consilia on the Baptism of Jewish Children M. Goodich; Liturgy and the Foundation of Cults in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries J. Ziegler; Text and Context: On the Rise of Physiognomic Thought in the Later Middle Ages M. Toch; The Peasant Community and its Laws: Medieval Bavaria Esther Cohen, Who Dese

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