Jews and crime in medieval Europe

• Verfasst von: Shoham-Shṭainer, Efrayim [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Jews and crime in medieval Europe
• Verf.angabe: Ephraim Shoham-Steiner
• Verlagsort: Detroit
• Verlag: Wayne State University Press
• E-Jahr: 2020
• Jahr: [2020]
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 459 Seiten)
• Fussnoten: Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
• ISBN: 978-0-8143-4560-3
• Schlagwörter: (g)Europa / (s)Juden / (s)Kriminalität / (z)Geschichte 500-1500
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Shoham-Shṭainer, Efrayim, 1968 - : Jews and crime in medieval Europe. - Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2021. - xi, 459 Seiten
• RVK-Notation: NY 4550
• Sach-SW: Electronic books
• K10plus-PPN: 1845496655
• K10plus-PPN:
  Universitätsbibliothek
• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- What Is Crime? -- Why Crime? -- Methodology and Methodological Issues -- Historical Context -- The Concepts of Crime and Punishment in Medieval Europe -- Temporal and Geographical Scope -- The Scarcity of Historical Information -- The History of Medieval Crime -- The History of Jewish Medieval Crime -- The Sources -- The Plan of This Book -- 1. "The Thieves That Go from House to House": Jewish Thieves in Medieval Europe -- A Time of Great Risk, Opportunity, and Change: The Late Tenth and Early to Mid-Eleventh Century -- A Guilty Conscience Needs No Accuser? -- For We Can Do No Wrong: Jewish Communal Regulations on Theft -- Stealing from Jews -- Using Magic to Steal -- People of the Book: The Rough Waters and the Solemn Banks of the Stolen Hebrew Book Market -- Battling Theft by Preaching -- Theft within and from the Community -- 2. "Be Gone Thou Man of Blood": Murder and Murderers in Medieval European Jewish Society -- An Israelite and a Levi on the Edge of Tzarfat: A Case from Limoges, Late Tenth Century -- The Status of a Murderer: What's in a Gaze? -- "He Who Kills in Our Times": From the Gaonic Period to Fifteenth-Century Europe -- Lethal Inclinations, Gentiles, and Exile: The Homilies of Rabbi Judah the Pious -- A Murderer in Our Midst: Addressing Extreme Violence in the Community -- 3. Women and Crime -- Methodological Problems -- Prostitution -- Violence in the Domestic Sphere -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: "Lest She Go Astray" -- Appendix 2: The Plundered Goods Caravan -- Appendix 3: The Renegade Cleric -- Appendix 4: Letter of Deliverance -- Appendix 5: The Case from Poland -- Appendix 6: The Manual of Penance -- Appendix 7: A Ḥazan Who Has Killed a Soul -- Appendix 8: A Responsum by Meir of Rothenburg -- Appendix 9: The Death of the Wife of Milo.