For nearly a century, it has been a commonplace of Central European history that there were no Jews in medieval Prussia-the result, supposedly, of the ruling Teutonic Order's attempts to create a pure
This book offers the first systematic inventory of late medieval social imagery drawn from the entire surviving corpus of vernacular book production in the Middle Low German region prior to the Reform
Based on papers presented at the conference of the same name, held in Stockholm, Sweden, in June 2013, the 17 articles in this volume examine Jewish-Muslim-Christian relations in medieval Scandinavia
This book presents a fresh approach to the question of the historical continuities and discontinuities of Jew-hatred, juxtaposing chapters dealing with the same phenomenon – one in the pre-modern
This book presents the most recent scholarship on the sixteenth-century convert Johannes Pfefferkorn and his context. Pfefferkorn is the most (in)famous of the converts from Judaism who wrote descript
