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The Jews in the Legal Sources of the Middle Ages

Edited with Introductions, translations, and annotations by Amnon Linder		 Jewry law, the corpus of legal texts and practices that regulated the life of the Jews in their relations with the medieval Christian society, is one of the main sources of evidence on medieval Jewish history. This volume presents a comprehensive collection of the legal texts bearing specifically on the Jews during the early Middle Ages, from the disappearance of the unitary imperial system in the fifth and sixth centuries to the emergence of centralized governmental structures and the codification of canon law, roughly between the close of the eleventh century and the middle of the twelfth century.
The Jews in Legal Sources of the Early Middle Ages is the first and only corpus of the relevant sources in their original Greek or Latin and in English translation. This book provides historians with all the relevant texts available in print, which Linder has supplemented with certain texts still unpublished, known from manuscript versions only.
1. Byzantine Texts

2. Western Secular Texts

3. Papal Decrees

4. Concillar Canons
Ecumenical Councils
Regional Councils
Early Councils
Gaul
Spain
Later Councils

5. Canonical Collections
 
$75.00s cloth / ISBN 0-8143-2403-7

717 pages / 6 x 9

1997

Copublished with the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem