HIST 226 Lecture 12: HIST 226 WEEK 7, LECURE 2
6 Mar 2018
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The experience of jews in medieval europe was structured by their relationship with three systems: christianity, the urban economy and royal power. The rst of these was in place by the early middle ages, while the last two developed between the 11th and. Less fundamental but also important was the violence christians in icted on particular jews and jewish communities as a result of paranoid fantasies that developed during the same time period. Southern europe: larger, better integrated, more economically diverse jewish communities. 11th and 12th c. church pressure on christian lending; restriction on jews. 1182 expulsion of the jews from the royal domain. 1204-1206 conquest of normandy, maine, anjou, touraine, northern poitou. Jews have an inherently marginal, unstable position in medieval society from the beginning, on account of the augustine doctrine of witness. The increasingly close association between the jews and royal power o ers some privileges, but also new vulnerabilities.
