European Jewry and the First Crusade
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: February 1, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780520205062
Subjects: European history: c 500 to c 1500; Jewish studies; Religion - Judaism; Religion; Europe; Germany; Jewish - General; Judaism - General; Religion / General
First sentence: The development of the First Crusade, as well as the state of late eleventh-century northern European Jewry, can be understood only against the background of a broad material and spiritual revival throughout western Christendom during the tenth and eleventh centuries, which had particularly pronounced impact in the heretofore backward areas of northern Europe.