The scope of this collection of original essays covers the years
1050 to 1215, but it really begins in the summer of 1096, when
marauding crusaders attacked Jewish communities in three Rhineland
cities. These violent episodes disrupted what had been a fairly
peaceful history of coexistence between Jews and Christians for
more than two centuries. Although the two groups inhabited
fundamentally different religious universes, Jews and Christians
lived in the same towns, on the same streets, and pursued their
lives with minimal mutual interference and often with considerable
cooperation. The events of 1096 destroyed that status quo.
Relations between the two communities deteriorated, and the Jewish
communities suffered as a result.
The contributors' careful analyses of people, events, and texts
provide a balanced perspective on the fate of twelfth-century
Jewish communities. They reveal that there is considerable evidence
that old routines and interactions between Christians and Jews
persisted throughout this period. From the perspective of the
editors and contributors, this sense of complementarity, of
interaction or action and reaction, needs to better inform the
medieval story. The essays in this volume therefore intentionally
highlight areas of common or parallel activity: in vernacular
literature, in biblical exegesis, in piety and mysticism, in the
social context of conversion, in relations with prelates and
monarchs, in coping in a time of change, renewal, and upheaval.
Most importantly, the editors and contributors insist on
integrating both Jewish and Christian perspectives into the larger
history of a very complex and increasingly urban twelfth-century
Europe.
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