Wednesday, December 8, 2021
4 p.m. EST
Virtual event via Zoom Webinar
The medieval city of Cologne was a bustling metropolis and a hub of commerce. The city is better known for its economic prowess, with Jews and Christians working side by side. But it is less known for its contribution to theology and canon law, from the Jewish to the halakha and Jewish tradition. Nevertheless, due to the city’s central location between England, the Low Countries, Northern France and the German Rhineland, it serves as a gauge for assessing many religious, political and cultural processes in the high middle ages. Dr. Ephraim Shoham Steiner, the 2021-2022 visiting scholar and a Fordham-NYPL Fellow in Jewish Studies, and members of Fordham’s faculty in Medieval Studies will explore together how Cologne served in this fashion drawing on examples from both medieval Christian and Jewish sources.
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Eyal Levinson (December 2, 2021). Webinar – Putting on Cologne: An Exploration of a Medieval City. medievalJewishStudiesNow! Retrieved April 18, 2025 from https://doi.org/10.58079/rhi1