title: Alienated Minority: The Jews of Medieval Latin Europe
author: Kenneth Stow
description: [An] enlightening and learned book. (Mark Miller <i>Forward</i>)<br /><br />What has heretofore been lacking both to students of medieval Jewish history and to general historians is a manageable, yet indepth, analysis in English of the medieval Jewish experience. Stow provides such a study. (Steven Bowman <i>Religious Studies Review</i>)<br /><br />In exemplary fashion, Stow blends Jewish and Christian sources, a meld lamentably lacking in other English-language studies of similar topics. (<i>Choice</i>)
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  I N T RO D U C T I O N
  
  
  Twentieth-century events and concerns have fostered interest in the treatment
  of social and religious minorities in the past. As a consequence, medievalists
  have also set out to unravel both what was perceived or constructed as
  difference, and how groups regarded as different were treated.
  
  
  These studies have started to reveal the complexity of non-Christian positions
  in the Middle Ages. The analysis of the place of Jews in medieval Europe, for
  example, modified not only the interpretation of Jewish history, abandoning
  its ‘lachrymose conception’,1 but also that of the dynamics of state formation
  and of developments within Christian theology and practice in medieval
  society.2 The debate about the role and function