ISBN:
9789004235397
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 373 pages)
Year of publication:
2013
Series Statement:
Études sur le judaïsme médiéval t. 56
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als The Economic History of European Jews: Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages
Keywords:
Jews History To 1500
;
Jews Economic conditions
;
Europe Commerce To 1500
;
History
;
Europe Economic conditions To 1492
;
Europe Ethnic relations
Abstract:
Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Chapter One Byzantium -- Chapter Two Italy -- Chapter Three Gaul, the Lands of the Franks, France -- Chapter Four The Iberian Peninsula -- Chapter Five Eastern Europe -- Chapter Six Jews, Commerce, and Money -- Chapter Seven Landholding, Crafts, Enterprises, Medicine, and the Internal Jewish Economy -- Chapter Eight Historical Conclusions -- Maps -- Appendix One Places of Jewish Settlement in the Byzantine Empire -- Appendix Two Places of Jewish Settlement in Italy -- Appendix Three Places of Jewish Settlement in France and Germany -- Appendix Four Places of Jewish Settlement in Iberia -- List of Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
The Economic History of European Jews attempts to make sense of the economic foundations of Jewish life in the different parts of late antique and early medieval Europe. In the first part Michael Toch describes the demographic arc, decline, subsequent rise, and spatial distribution of Jewish populations. This data is then broadened to include the range of economic activities. The second part analyses the actual share of Jews in different branches of the economy. This includes the idea of their pioneer role and the notion of an intercontinental network of Jewish commerce, the phenomenon of Jews in agriculture and entrepreneurship, gender roles and the household mode of production, and the difficult subject of the significance of minority status for economic activity, among other subjects. \'This is the most up-to-date scholarly reassessment of a century of both overly optimistic and occasionally negative interpretations of Jewish population and economic activities, a boon to students and researchers of the first millennium of the Jewish experience in Europe, and an interesting read for the general public.\' S. Bowman, University of Cincinnati
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1163/9789004235397
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