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“Minority Dress Codes and the Law: A Jewish-Christian Comparison”. In
Religious Minorities in Christian, Jewish and Muslim Law (5th - 15th centuries), 8:289–299. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2017.
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Baumgarten, Elisheva .
“Reflections of Everyday Jewish Life: Evidence from Medieval Cemeteries”. In
Les vivants et Les morts dans les sociétés médiévales (Histoire ancienne et médiévale) (French Edition), 95–104. Editions de la Sorbonne., 2017.
Baumgarten, Elisheva .
“"Tales in Context: A Historical Approach" Epilogue.”. In
Tales in context: Sefer ha-Ma'asim in medieval Northern France: (Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, Ms. Bodl. Or. 135), 687–672. Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press, 2017.
Berend, Nora, Youna Hameau-Masset, Capucine Nemo-Pekelman, and John Victor Tolan, eds.
Religious minorities in Christian, Jewish and Muslim law (5th-15th centuries).
Religion and law in medieval Christian and Muslim societies. Turnhout: Brepols, 2017.
AbstractThe fruit of a sustained and close collaboration between historians, linguists and jurists working on the Christian, Muslim and Jewish societies of the Middle Ages, this book explores the theme of religious coexistence (and the problems it poses) from a resolutely comparative perspective. The authors concentrate on a key aspect of this coexistence: the legal status attributed to Jews and Muslims in Christendom and to dhimmis in Islamic lands." –Back cover
Baumgarten, Elisheva .
“Motherhood and Ma’asim: Maternal Agency in Medieval Hebrew Stories”. In
Mothers in the Jewish Cultural Imagination, 345-357. Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2017.
AbstractThis article examines the roles of mothers in the 13th century composition Sefer ha-ma'asim written in Hebrew in Champagne
Baumgarten, Elisheva, Ruth Mazo Karras, and Katelyn Mesler, eds.
Entangled Histories: Knowledge, Authority, and Jewish Culture in the Thirteenth Century. 1st ed. Philadelphia: (Penn) University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.
http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15555.html.
AbstractFrom Halakhic innovation to blood libels, from the establishment of new mendicant orders to the institutionalization of Islamicate bureaucracy, and from the development of the inquisitorial process to the rise of yeshivas, universities, and madrasas, the long thirteenth century saw a profusion of political, cultural, and intellectual changes in Europe and the Mediterranean basin. These were informed by, and in turn informed, the religious communities from which they arose. In city streets and government buildings, Jews, Christians, and Muslims lived, worked, and disputed with one another, sharing and shaping their respective cultures in the process. The interaction born of these relationships between minority and majority cultures, from love and friendship to hostility and violence, can be described as a complex and irreducible "entanglement." The contributors to Entangled Histories: Knowledge, Authority, and Jewish Culture in the Thirteenth Century argue that this admixture of persecution and cooperation was at the foundation of Jewish experience in the Middle Ages.