In This Land Jewish Life and Legal Culture in Late Medieval Provence

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English | ISBN: 0888442238 | 2021 | 178 pages | PDF | 1491 KB
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In This Land reveals the changes that Jewish communities across the county of Provence underwent during the late-thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and the social and cultural tensions that shaped their identity. Exploring legal responsa and other genres of rabbinic literature produced during this period – many of them previously unpublished – the book reveals the ways in which engagement with legal culture played a central role in the formation of medieval communal identity, providing both a language and a forum for the airing of grievances and the demarcation of social legitimacy.