Kanta pembesar
Cari Loader

Rena N. Lauer 
Colonial Justice and the Jews of Venetian Crete 

Sokongan

When Venice conquered Crete in the early thirteenth century, a significant population of Jews lived in the capital and main port city of Candia. This community grew, diversified, and flourished both culturally and economically throughout the period of Venetian rule, and although it adhered to traditional Jewish ways of life, the community also readily engaged with the broader population and the island’s Venetian colonial government.
In Colonial Justice and the Jews of Venetian Crete, Rena N. Lauer tells the story of this unusual and little-known community through the lens of its flexible use of the legal systems at its disposal. Grounding the book in richly detailed studies of individuals and judicial cases—concerning matters as prosaic as taxation and as dramatic as bigamy and murder—Lauer brings the Jews of Candia vibrantly to life. Despite general rabbinic disapproval of such behavior elsewhere in medieval Europe, Crete’s Jews regularly turned not only to their own religious courts but also to the secular Venetian judicial system. There they aired disputes between family members, business partners, spouses, and even the leaders of their community. And with their use of secular justice as both symptom and cause, Lauer contends, Crete’s Jews grew more open and flexible, confident in their identity and experiencing little of the anti-Judaism increasingly suffered by their coreligionists in Western Europe.

€82.99
cara bayaran

Mengenai Pengarang

Rena N. Lauer teaches history and religious studies at Oregon State University.
Bahasa Inggeris ● Format EPUB ● Halaman-halaman 304 ● ISBN 9780812295917 ● Saiz fail 2.9 MB ● Penerbit University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc. ● Bandar raya Philadelphia ● Negara US ● Diterbitkan 2019 ● Muat turun 24 bulan ● Mata wang EUR ● ID 6913002 ● Salin perlindungan Adobe DRM
Memerlukan pembaca ebook yang mampu DRM

Lebih banyak ebook daripada pengarang yang sama / Penyunting

2,117 Ebooks dalam kategori ini