Machine generated contents note: pt. I OVERVIEW OF THE TOSAFIST MOVEMENT -- 1. The Printed Page of the Talmud: The Commentaries and their Authors -- 2. Catastrophe and Halakhic Creativity: Ashkenaz -- 1096, 1242, 1306, and 1298 -- 3. The Halakhic Isolation of the Ashkenazic Community -- pt. II USURY AND MONEYLENDING -- 4. Usury, Jewish Law -- 5. The Jewish Attitude to Usury in the High and Late Middle Ages (1000 -- 1500) -- 6. Pawnbroking: A Study in Ribbit and of the Halakhah in Exile -- pt. III THE BAN ON GENTILE WINE AND ITS LINK TO MONEYLENDING -- 7. Can Halakhic Texts Talk History? -- 8. Halakhah, Taboo, and the Origin of Jewish Moneylending in Germany -- pt. IV SOME GENERAL CONCLUSIONS -- 9. Religious Law and Change: The Medieval Ashkenazic Example -- 10. ̀Religious Law and Change' Revisited -- 11. A Note on Deviance in Eleventh-Century Ashkenaz -- 12. On Deviance: A Reply to David Malkiel -- REVIEW ESSAY -- Yishaq (Eric) Zimmer, 'Olam ke-Minhago Noheg.