IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1727: Negotiating Boundaries between Jews and Christians in the Urban Space of Medieval Germany
Thursday 9 July 2020, 14.15-15.45
| Organisers: | Tzafrir Barzilay, Kreitman School of Advanced Graduate Studies Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Beer-Sheva Sophia Schmitt, Historisches Seminar, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Eveline Brugger, Institut für jüdische Geschichte Österreichs, St. Pölten |
| Paper 1727-a | Cut through the Middle: Bodies, Borders, and Gender-Based Violence in Medieval Ashkenaz (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Hebrew and Jewish Studies |
| Paper 1727-b | Water Use and Social Boundaries between Jews and Christians in 15th-Century Nürnberg (Language: English) Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Social History |
| Paper 1727-c | Truth, Justice, and the Jewish Way: Restricting Violence in Late Medieval Ashkenaz (Language: English) Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Law |
| Abstract | The experiences of medieval German Jews were shaped by negotiations of both common and distinct spheres within their Christian environs. In this session, three different case studies show the establishment of social, communal, and legal boundaries from a Jewish perspective that were meant to preserve distinctiveness, to provide protection, and to strengthen self-conception. These boundaries constituted reactions to changes in the surrounding society and thereby reflected Christian attitudes and perceptions. As a consequence, the discussion of these restrictions likewise highlights shared spaces, everyday encounters, and Jews' scope of action within medieval urban settings. |