Ephraim Shoham-Steiner

Gebundenes Buch

Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe

Beschreibung

Drawing on a variety of legal, liturgical, literary, and archival sources, Ephraim Shoham-Steiner examines the reasons for the involvement in crime, the social profile of Jews who performed crimes, and the ways and mechanisms employed by the legal and communal body to deal with Jewish criminals and with crimes committed by Jews.

Autor

Ephraim Shoham-Steiner is professor of medieval Jewish history at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Be'ersheva Israel, where he is the director of the Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters (CSOC). He is the author of On the Margins of a Minority: Leprosy, Madness, and Disability among the Jews of Medieval Europe (Wayne State University Press, 2014) and the editor of Intricate Interfaith Networks in the Middle Ages: Quotidian Jewish-Christian Contacts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wayne State University Press
• Seitenzahl: 476
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 862g
• ISBN-13: 9780814345597
• ISBN-10: 081434559X
• Artikelnr.: 62152688