LEADER 04424oam 22005654a 450 001 9910524685403321 005 20230621135735.0 010 $a0-8018-1503-7 010 $a1-4214-3066-5 035 $a(CKB)4100000010460776 035 $a(OCoLC)1120066715 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse77218 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88856 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC29139104 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL29139104 035 $a(oapen)doab88856 035 $a(OCoLC)1526860177 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010460776 100 $a20190913d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMedieval Jewry in Northern France$eA Political and Social History /$fby Robert Chazan 205 $aOpen access edition. 210 $cJohns Hopkins University Press$d2019 210 1$aBaltimore, Maryland :$cProject Muse,$d2019 210 4$dİ2019 215 $a1 online resource (1 PDF (unpaged) :)$cmaps 225 0 $aHopkins open publishing encore editions 300 $aOriginally published: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1973], in series Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; ninety-first series, 2. 311 08$a1-4214-3103-3 311 08$a1-4214-3065-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- Tenth- and Eleventh- century background -- Twelfth-century growth and development -- Philip Augustus: Expulsion, exploitation, and ecclesiastical pressure -- Louis IX: the victory of the Church -- Philip IV: revival and ruin -- Expulsion and its aftermath. 330 $aFocusing on a set of Jewish communities, Robert Chazan tells how, by the eleventh century, French Jews had created for themselves a role as local merchants and moneylenders in adapting to the political, economic, and social limits imposed on them. French society, striving to become more powerful and civilized, was willing to extend aid and protection to the Jews in return for general stimulation of trade and urban life and for the immediate profit realized from taxation. While the authorities were relatively successful in protecting the Jews from others, there was no power to impose itself between the Jews and their protectors. The political and social well-being of the Jews was, therefore, dependent on the will of the governing authorities who taxed their holdings and regulated their activities. During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the position of the Jews was constantly under attack by reform elements in the church concerned with Jewish moneylending and blasphemous materials in Jewish books; these reformers were eventually devoted to a serious missionizing effort within the Jewish community. The Jews' situation was further complicated by deep popular animosity, expressing itself in a damaging set of slanders and occasionally in physical violence. Despite the impressive achievements of the Jews in medieval northern France, by the thirteenth century their community was increasingly constricted; and in 1306, they were expelled from royal France by Philip IV. Overcoming the handicap of a lack of copious source material, Chazan analyzes the Jews' political status, their relations with key elements of Christian society, their demographic development, their economic outlets, their internal organization, and their attitudes toward the Christian environment. As it highlights aspects of French society from an unusual perspective, Medieval Jewry in Northern France should be of special interest to the historian of medieval France as well as to the student of Jewish history. This story is also significant for all who are fascinated by the capacity of human groups to respond and adapt creatively to a hostile and limiting environment. 410 0$aJohns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ;$v91st ser., 2. 410 0$aHopkins open publishing encore editions. 606 $aJews$zFrance, Northern$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aJews$xHistory. 676 $a944/.2/004924 700 $aChazan$b Robert$0777633 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910524685403321 996 $aMedieval Jewry in Northern France$92772194 997 $aUNINA