In this land: Jewish life and legal culture in late medieval Provence

"Jewish communities existed across the county of Provence throughout the Middle Ages. "In This Land" reveals the changes that those communities underwent during the late-thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and the social and cultural tensions that shaped their identity. Through close and historically contextualized readings of legal responsa and other genres of rabbinic literature produced during the period, many of them previously unpublished, this book provides a startlingly vivid portrait of Jewish life in southern France during the later Middle Ages. "-- Provided by publisher.