Alienated Minority: The Jews of Medieval Latin Europe

By Kenneth R. Stow

Book Overview

This narrative history surveying 1000 years of Jewish life, integrated 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674015924
• ISBN13: 9780674015920
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.3" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Important work

This wonderful and important work documents what Jews were doing and where they were between 1100 and 1500. It examines demographic and culture as well as religion and tradition and never forgets to examine the role of Jews in society and pose the question: how important and visible was the Jewish role in society in western world, how did Jews live and what was their culture and place in European history? A very interesting book, scholarly and not exceedingly interesting, but nonetheless important. Seth J. Frantzman