Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz : Men, Women, and Everyday Religious Observance
Elisheva Baumgarten offers a fresh assessment of Jewish daily practices in medieval Ashkenaz. The first study to address the practices of men and women together, Baumgarten explores how Jews who were not learned alongside those who were expressed their convictions and reinforced their identities as...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Langue: | English |
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Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,
2014
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| Titres liés à la collection: | Jewish Culture and Contexts Ser.
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| Sujets: | Ashkenazim ; History ; To 1500 Hasidism, Medieval Jewish way of life ; History ; To 1500 Jews ; Europe ; Social life and customs ; To 1500 Judaism ; Europe ; History ; To 1500 Electronic books Aschkenasim Religiöses Leben Geschichte 700-1500 |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (346 pages) |
| Résumé: | Elisheva Baumgarten offers a fresh assessment of Jewish daily practices in medieval Ashkenaz. The first study to address the practices of men and women together, Baumgarten explores how Jews who were not learned alongside those who were expressed their convictions and reinforced their identities as Jews within a Christian world. Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Medieval Jewish Communities of Germany and Northern France -- Toward a Social and Comparative History of Jewish and Christian Medieval Piety -- Piety and Gender -- Practicing Piety -- Chapter 1: Standing Before God: Purity and Impurity in the Synagogue -- Absence and Presence in the Medieval Synagogue -- Purity and Impurity: Changing Observance -- Men, Women, and Angels -- Impurity, Accessing the Sacred, and Approximating Angels: A Christian Comparison -- Jews, Christians, and Bodily Purity -- Visible Piety, Visible Practice -- Chapter 2: Jewish Fasting and Atonement in a Christian Context -- Jewish Fasting in Late Antiquity -- Christian Fasting in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages -- Jewish Fasting in Medieval Europe -- Fasting, Repentance, and Atonement -- Jewish and Christian Fasting: A Comparative View -- Conclusions: Jewish and Christian Fasting -- Chapter 3: Communal Charity: Evidence from Medieval Nürnberg -- The Nürnberg Memorbuch -- Charity as a Redemptive Act in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages -- Medieval Charity Pro Anima -- Donations from the Nürnberg Memorbuch -- Agency and Authority: Gendered Giving -- Gender and Charity: A Comparison of Jewish and Christian Practice -- Chapter 4: Positive Time-Bound Commandments: Class, Gender, and Transformation -- Etrog, Lulav, and Shofar: The Eleventh Through the Fourteenth Century -- Tefillin and Tzitzit: The Thirteenth Through the Fifteenth Century -- Performers and Practice: Continuity and Change -- Chapter 5: Conspicuous in the City: Medieval Jews in Urban Centers -- Clothing and Coiffure as Markers of Piety in Christian Europe -- Reconstructing Jewish Dress in Medieval Ashkenaz -- Apparel, Piety, and Religious Distinction -- Chapter 6: Feigning Piety: Tracing Two Tales of Pious Pretenders. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (346 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780812290127 0812290127 9780812246407 0812246403 |