Research Catalog

Title

Under crescent and cross : the Jews in the Middle Ages / Mark R. Cohen ; with a new introduction and afterword by the author.

Author

Cohen, Mark R., 1943-

Publication

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2008.

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Details

Description

xxv, 296 p.; 24 cm.

Alternative Title

• Under crescent & cross
• Under crescent & cross : the Jews in the Middle Ages

Subject

• 70-1789
• Geschichte 500-1500
• Judaism > Relations > Christianity > History
• Christianity and other religions > Judaism > History
• Judaism > Relations > Islam > History
• Islam > Relations > Judaism > History
• Judaism > History > Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789
• Judaism > Relations > Christianity
• Christianity and other religions > Judaism
• Judaism > Relations > Islam
• Islam > Relations > Judaism
• Jews > History > 70-1789

Genre/Form

History

Note

• "Reissue, with a new introduction and afterword, 2008"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction to the 2008 edition -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Note on transliteration -- Introduction -- Part 1: Myth and countermyth -- Chapter 1. Myth and countermyth -- Part 2: In religion and law -- Chapter 2. Religions in conflict -- Chapter 3. The legal position of Jews in Christendom -- Chapter 4. The legal position of Jews in Islam -- Part 3: In the economy -- Chapter 5. The economic factor -- Part 4. In the social order -- Chapter 6. Hierarchy, marginality, and ethnicity -- Chapter 7. The Jew as townsman -- Chapter 8. Sociability -- Part 5: Polemics and persecution -- Chapter 9. Interreligious polemics -- Chapter 10. Persecution, response, and collective memory -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Afterword: a paradigm -- Index.

ISBN

• 9780691139319
• 0691139318

OCLC

• 231587181
• SCSB-12728173

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library