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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810304703321

Autore

Bachrach Bernard S. <1939->

Titolo

Early medieval Jewish policy in Western Europe / / Bernard S. Bachrach

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 1977

©1977

ISBN

0-8166-6125-1

0-8166-0814-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 213 pages)

Disciplina

323.1/19/2404

Soggetti

Jews - History - 70-1789

Jews - Legal status, laws, etc - Europe

Europe Politics and government 476-1492

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 192-203) and index.

Nota di contenuto

CHAPTER I: Visigothic Jewish Policy -- CHAPTER II: Jewish Policy in Early Medieval Italy (476-774) -- CHAPTER III: Merovingian Jewish Policy -- CHAPTER IV: Jewish Policy in the Early Carolingian Empire and Its Environs -- CHAPTER V: Jewish Policy under Louis the Pious (814-840) and in the Environs of the Empire -- CHAPTER VI: Jewish Policy in the Carolingian Empire and Its Environs during the Period of Dissolution (840-877) -- CHAPTER VII: Conclusions

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first study of early medieval Jewish policy in the West which examines the nature of this policy from the perspective and aims of its formulators. As the author points out, most specialists in Jewish history have been dominated by what the historian Salo Baron has called the "lachrymose conception, ' a view which emphasized persecution and suffering as a fundamental theme of Jewish history. Professor Bachrach challenges this view and attacks what he calls the myth of Christian church domination of the early medieval world.