Signum mortis : une nouvelle explication du signe de la rouelle ?
Capucine Nemo-Pekelman
The sixth to eleventh centuries are a crucial formative period for Jewish communities in Byzantium and Latin Europe: this is also which sources scarce about historians have often had speculate on the basis of scant evidence. legal studied volume provide relative wealth textual material concerning Jews, certain areas periods principal sources. While makes them particularly valuable, it their interpretation difficult, given lack corroborative scholars whose work has been brought together shed light key history Jews Jewish-Christian relations, focusing period: Byzantine imperial law, canons church councils, papal bulls, royal legislation from Visigoths or Carolingians, inscriptions, narrative Hebrew, Greek Latin. picture that emerges these studies variegated. Some scholars, following Bernhard Blumenkranz, depicted as one tolerance towards Judaism; others stressed intolerance shown at intervals by ecclesiastical authors, councils monarchs. Yet perhaps more than revealing general tendencies “tolerance” “intolerance”, bring ways law medieval societies serves variety purposes: providing theologically-based rationale social tolerance, attempting regulate restrict inter-religious contact, using anti-Jewish rhetoric assert authority legitimacy party Christian elite over against another. This an im- portant contribution not only but research uses functions societies.
Religion and law in medieval christian and muslim societies|HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)