This narrative history surveying one thousand years of Jewish life
integrates the Jewish experience into the context of the overall
culture and society of medieval Europe. It presents a new picture
of the interaction between Christians and Jews in this tumultuous
era.
"Alienated Minority" shows us what it meant to be a Jew in
Europe in the Middle Ages. The story begins in the fifth century,
when autonomous Jewish rule in Palestine came to a close, and when
the papacy, led by Gregory the Great, established enduring
principles regarding Christian policy toward Jews. Kenneth Stow
examines the structures of self-government in the European Jewish
community and the centrality of emerging concepts of
representation. He studies economic enterprise, especially banking;
constructs a clear image of the medieval Jewish family; and
portrays in detail the very rich Jewish intellectual life.
Analyzing policies of Church and State in the Middle Ages, Stow
argues that a firmly defined legal and constitutional position of
the Jewish minority in the earlier period gave way to a legal
status created expressly for Jews, who in the later period were
seen as inimical to the common good. It was this special status
that paved the way for the royal expulsions of Jews that began at
the end of the thirteenth century.
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