Peasants and Jews in Medieval Germany

Studies in Cultural, Social and Economic History

Michael Toch

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000939835
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

The studies collected here centre on the social and economic life of medieval Germany, within a broader European context. The first three articles engage the day-to-day workings of rural society: literature, verbal attack and the language of mediated settlement of conflicts lead to a nuanced view of social hierarchy, in which the meek too have a say. The next group examines some major elements of rural life, dealing with technology, resources, ecology, transport, communication and credit. In the second part, the author focuses on the life of the Jews in Germany, first charting the process of settlement of Jews in Germany, the dynamics of social stratification and household composition, and the impact of economics and persecution on settlement patterns. A case study uncovers the motives and steps that led up to the expulsion of the Jews of Nuremberg in 1498. These themes are followed up into the early modern period, when German Jewry mostly came to live a village life. The last studies deal with the economic history of medieval European Jews, including professions other than moneylending, and with the function of women in economic life.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Page
• Half Title
• Front Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Publisher’s Note
• I Asking the Way and Telling the Law: Speech in Medieval Germany
• II Schimpfwörter im Dorf des Spätmittelalters
• III Ethics, Emotion and Self-interest: Rural Bavaria in the later Middle Ages
• IV Agricultural Progress and Agricultural Technology in Medieval Germany: An Alternative Model
• V Lords and Peasants: A Reappraisal of Medieval Economic Relationships
• VI Peasants of the Mountains, Peasants of the Valleys and Medieval State Building: The Case of the Alps
• VII Hauling Away in Late Medieval Bavaria: The Economics of Inland Transport in an Agrarian Market
• VIII Local Credit in an Agrarian Economy: The Case of Bavaria, 14th to 15th Centuries
• IX The Formation of a Diaspora: The Settlement of Jews in the Medieval German Reich
• X Jewish Migrations to, within and from Medieval Germany
• XI Siedlungsstruktur der Juden Mitteleuropas im Wandel vom Mittelalter zur Neuzeit
• XII Die soziale und demographische Struktur der jüdischen Gemeinde Nürnbergs im Jahre 1489
• XIII umb gemeyns nutz und nottdurfft willen. Obrigkeitliches und jurisdiktionelles Denken bei der Austreibung der Nürnberger Juden 1498/99
• XIV Aspects of Stratification of Early Modern German Jewry: Population History and Village Jews
• XV Jews and Commerce: Modern Fancies and Medieval Realities
• XVI Jüdische Geldleihe im Mittelalter
• XVII Geldleiher und sonst nichts? Zur wirtschaftlichen Tatigkeit der Juden im deutschen Sprachraum des Spätmittelalters
• XVIII Der jüdische Geldhandel in der Wirtschaft des Deutschen Spätmittelalters: Nürnberg 1350–1499
• XIX Die jüdische Frau im Erwerbsleben des Spätmittelalters
• XX Der Mankus – eine spätmittelalterliche Auferstehung
• XXI Between Impotence and Power – the Jews in the Economy and Polity of Medieval Europe
• Addenda et Corrigenda
• Index