CONTENTS:
Jews, Lordship, and the Experience of Power in Early Eleventh Century France — Tzafrir Barzilay
Celebrating St Melor at Amesbury Priory — Anne Bagnall Yardley
Magistrae of the Beguines of Valenciennes and Their Social Networks — Huanan Lu
Race, Skin Colour, Enslavement and Sexuality in the Late Medieval Mediterranean — Michelle Armstrong-Partida
A Local Translation in a Global World: Odoric of Pordenone, William of Solagna, and a Giant Tortoise in Fourteenth-Century Padua — Philippa Byrne
The Tournament at Saint-Inglevert (1390): Chivalry, Diplomacy and Pas d’armes — Craig Taylor

Eds. Bar Kribus, Zaroui Pogossian and Alexandra Cuffel (Arc Humanities Press, September 2024)

This book demonstrates the potential of material culture, including artworks and archaeological finds, to shed new light on Jewish-Christian interaction in medieval and early modern times. Previous studies have focused on areas where Jews lived as a minority under Christian rule, such as in Western Europe and the Byzantine Empire. This book, on the other hand, explores the eastern Mediterranean to Central Asia, the Red Sea and India, where Jews and Christians interacted on a different footing.

Jews in Slovenia in the Middle-Ages is exploring the medieval Jewish history of Carinthia, Styria, Carniola, Gorizia County, Trieste and northern Venetian Istria. The description starts with the Antiquity, including the treatment of Aquileia, and ends with the expulsion of Jews from Carinthia and Styria in 1496 and from Carniola in 1515. The book is covering the topic thoroughly with the examination of all the available sources and literature writing about them until the present day. It is an indispensable work for all those trying to understand the medieval Jewish history of Southeastern Alps, Inner Austria and Slovenia.

Klemen Jelinčič Boeta, PhD, graduated at the universities of Tel Aviv and Ljubljana and wrote a series of books in Jewish studies in Slovenian (Kratka zgodovina Judov, ‘Short History of Jews’, Judje na Slovenskem, ‘Jews of Slovenia’, Judje na Slovenskem v srednjem veku, ‘Jews in Slovenia in Middle-Ages’, in Uvod v judovstvo, ‘Introduction to Judaism’, 2009-2010), as well as papers on medieval Jewish experience in Slovenian lands, both in Slovenian and English. He also wrote the books Vzhodne cerkve na kratko, ‘Eastern Churches in Brief’ (2015) and Protestantske cerkve in skupnosti, ‘Protestant Churches and Communities’ (2018), both in Slovenian, followed by Languages and Peoples of Europe (2021), published in Slovenian and English versions.