You can now read Francois Soyer’s review of Ivan G. Marcus’ How the West Became Antisemitic: Jews and the Formation of Europe, 800–1500 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024) via H-Net Reviews.
Category Archives: Publications
Review of Ephraim Shoham-Steiner: “Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe”
You can now read a German review by Christian Scholl of Ephraim Shoham-Steiner’s book Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe in Das Mittelalter.
Review of “Archéologie du judaïsme en Europe,” eds Paul Salmona, Philippe Blanchard, and Amélie Sagasser
Read now Michael Studemund-Halévy’s review of Archéologie du judaïsme en Europe, eds Paul Salmona, Philippe Blanchard, and Amélie Sagasser (Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2023) via Francia Recensio.
A Newly Discovered Binding Fragment of Talmud Yerushalmi Shevuot
Read this new article by Menachem Katz and David Golinkin about “A Newly Discovered Binding Fragment of Talmud Yerushalmi Shevuot,” The Vatican Library Review 3 (2024) 189–203.
New Book: The Jewish Neighborhood in Medieval Ashkenaz
Michael: On the History of the Jews in the Diaspora, Vol. 17
Editors: Simha Goldin and Joseph Isaac Lifshitz
Jews lived amongst Christians for at least one millennium and, in this collection of articles, we learn that the daily life and relationship between Jews and Christians was both varied and complex. Even the borders of the Jewish street or the Jewish neighborhood were not that defined. This volume seeks to explore not only the physical structure of the medieval Jewish neighborhood but also the very concept of “neighborhood” and the social and cultural implications embedded therein.
New Issue of Medieval Encounters
Volume 30, Issue 5-6 (Oct 2024): Special Issue: Why Write Poetry? Transcultural Perspectives from the Later Medieval Period, edited by Krystina Kubina and Nikos Zagklas
CONTENTS:
[Open Access] Introduction: Why Write Poetry? Transcultural Perspectives from the Later Medieval Period — Krystina Kubina and Nikos Zagklas
“The Sweetness of the Persian Tongue”: the Limits of Poetry in Medieval and Early Modern Georgia — Nikoloz Aleksidze
Poetic Alchemy: the Rise of Romance from a Persian Perspective: Dedicated to Julie Scott Meisami, 1937–2021 — Cameron Cross
[Open Access] Greek Poetry in a Multicultural Society: Sicily and Salento in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries — Krystina Kubina and Nikos Zagklas
Hebrew Panegyric of the Late Middle Ages: Shemaryah, Son of Elijah, and His Praise Poems — Saskia Dönitz
Book Reviews, e.g. on “England’s Jews: Finance, Violence, and the Crown in the Thirteenth Century”, written by John Tolan
“It Requires Privacy”: Sharing a House in Thirteenth-Century Paris
Read the new aticle by Pinchas Roth, ““It Requires Privacy”: Sharing a House in Thirteenth-Century Paris,” Jewish History 38 (2024): 1–17.
Almohad-Era Jewish Jurisprudence: Moses Maimonides and Joseph Ibn ʿAqnīn
Read the new article by Marc Herman, “Almohad-Era Jewish Jurisprudence:
Moses Maimonides and Joseph Ibn ʿAqnīn,” Intellectual History of the Islamicate World 12 (2024): 45–69.
Rabbenu Tam and Count Henry the Liberal: New Sources
Read the new article by Yosaif Mordechai Dubovick & Avraham (Rami) Reiner, “Rabbenu Tam and Count Henry the Liberal: New Sources,” Journal of Medieval History 50.5 (2024): 563-72.
New Book — Cartographies of Exclusion: Anti-Semitic Mapping in Medieval England, by Asa Simon Mittman
Pennsylvania State University Press, 2025. Available as an e-book.
From the battles over Jerusalem to the emergence of the “Holy Land,” from legally mandated ghettos to the Edict of Expulsion, geography has long been a component of Christian-Jewish relations. Attending to world maps drawn by medieval Christian mapmakers, Cartographies of Exclusion brings us to the literal drawing board of “Christendom” and shows the creation, in real time, of a mythic state intended to dehumanize the non-Christian people it ultimately sought to displace.
