IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 309: Information and Trust between Jews and Christians
Monday 4 July 2022, 16.30-18.00
| Organisers: | Aviya Doron, Department of Jewish History & Contemporary Jewry Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ryan Nakano Low, Department of History, Harvard University |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Rebecca Winer, Department of History, Villanova University, Pennsylvania |
| Paper 309-a | Jewish Legal Strategies before Local Courts in Late Medieval Austria (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Law, Social History |
| Paper 309-b | Public Faith in Private Homes: Jewish Creditors, Christian Notaries, and Rural Debtors in the Medieval Dauphiné (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Economics - Rural, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Social History |
| Paper 309-c | The Boundaries of Foreignness: Jews, Lombards, and Bourgeois in 14th-Century Paris (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Demography, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Social History |
| Abstract | Our aim is to bring together scholars interested in mechanisms by which Jews and Christians in medieval Europe shared information with each other, especially across the borders of the rural-urban divide, and question the role of trust in promoting information exchange. Our session will investigate how information exchange and cooperation, whether private or through the vast repositories of information contained in notaries, courts, chancelleries, markets, and other institutions, allowed Jews and Christians to surmount boundaries posed both by religious difference and by geographical distance across different regions in Europe. We hope that examining the boundaries of information and cooperation in Jewish-Christian exchange may contribute to the understanding of the definition and function of trust in these interreligious contacts. |