UID:
almafu_9959234439002883
Format:
1 online resource (208 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-99025-1
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1-134-99026-X
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1-280-32562-3
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0-203-20233-3
Content:
The twelfth century was a period of rapid change in Europe. The intellectual landscape was being transformed by new access to classical works through non-Christian sources. The Christian church was consequently trying to strengthen its control over the priesthood and laity and within the church a dramatic spiritual renewal was taking place. Christians and Jews in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance reveals the consequences for the only remaining non-Christian minority in the heartland of Europe: the Jews. Anna Abulafia probes the anti-Jewish polemics of scholars who used the new
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; CHRISTIANS AND JEWS IN THE TWELFTH-CENTURY RENAISSANCE; Copyright; CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; Part I THE TWELFTH-CENTURY RENAISSANCE; 1 THE SCHOOLS; 2 THE TOOLS OF REASON AND CHRISTIAN HUMANISM; 3 THE CHRISTIANIZATION OF REASON; Part II CHRISTIANS AND JEWS IN THE TWELFTH-CENTURY RENAISSANCE; 4 A CHANGING SOCIETY; 5 THE JEWISH CHALLENGE; Part III THE JEWISH-CHRISTIAN DEBATE; 6 CHRISTIANIZED REASON AT WORK; 7 THE TESTIMONY OF THE HEBREW BIBLE; 8 BODIES AND MONEY; 9 INCLUSIVENESS AND EXCLUSION; EPILOGUE; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-86183-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-00012-2
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203202333
