The Economic History of European Jews

Abstract

rezensiert von/compte rendu rédigé par Amélie Sagasser, Paris Eine systematische Darstellung der jüdischen Wirtschaftsgeschichte im Mittelalter gilt als Desiderat der Forschung. Zwar liegt eine Reihe von wichtigen Untersuchungen zum Thema vor, doch handelt es sich meist um Fallstudien, die auf ein spezielles Thema oder einen geographisch beschränkten Raum fokussiert sind. Das einzige Werk, das bislang eine zusammenfassende Wirtschaftsgeschichte der

Essays on Production and Trade in Late Medieval Iberia and the Mediterranean: 1100-1500

“…Unfortunately, we have no reliable data after the 1050s, but such a coincidence in the rise of prices both for houses in the city and vineyards in the countryside during the first half of the eleventh century can be understood as the sign of a process of inurbamento taking place at the time, as Violante has shown for Milan in the tenth-eleventh centuries. 9 It was not the mere result of a general price inflation, for we can see in Figure 1 that the value of other rural properties in Leon's countryside did not experience such a sustained increase. And if we have a look at the average value of property sales (usually a good indicator of inflation), we can see that the influx of silver from al-Andalus did cause a sudden rise in the first decade of the eleventh century, but it remained quite stable thereafter.…”

“…And if we have a look at the average value of property sales (usually a good indicator of inflation), we can see that the influx of silver from al-Andalus did cause a sudden rise in the first decade of the eleventh century, but it remained quite stable thereafter. 9 Regarding the lack of reliable data after the 1050s, only 6 sale charters referring to urban properties have been preserved for more than a century thereafter (3 in 1061-1100, and other 3 in 1101-1175), while for instance we have 8 just for the first decade of the eleventh century. The reasons for such a documentary collapse lay on the huge transformations of local society and urban memories that took place during the early phases of the Central Middle Ages, leading to the disappearance of our main source of information for early medieval Leon: small family monasteries.…”

“…Fascinating debates have emerged, in the past decades, regarding the institutional and social peculiarities of Jewish, Islamic, and Christian merchants in Europe and the Mediterranean. 9 Through the study of markets and commercial exchange, one can grasp economic and social interactions at a broader scale, making it possible to understand better the formation of specialised productive centres, the rise of cosmopolitan urban centres, the paths of divergence, and the role of politics and institutions. Moreover, it allows historians to identify the socioeconomic thread that farmers, merchants, and consumers shared in their daily lives regardless of their origin.…”

The Field of History and the Fields of Iraq

“…As Toch points out, his own intervention in this direction is part of a broader historiographical trend. 142 I rely on the methodological groundwork laid by Toch on the one hand to "normalize" the picture of Jewish economic history, and on the other to support a new foundational narrative underpinning that history.…”

Schum Yahudi Topluluğu Bağlamında Birinci Haçlı Seferi Öncesi Aşkenaz Yahudiliği ne Bakış

“…Bunların bazılarının işledikleri, gelir sağladıkları ve miras bırakabildikleri kendi arazileri olduğu gibi bazılarının da bir derebeyinin arazisinde -serf olarak değilçalıştığı anlaşılmaktadır 90 . Zanaatkâr olan Yahudilerin ise; tabakhane işçisi, terzi, cam üfleyicisi, ipek dokumacısı, kuyumcu ve değerli eşya yontucusu gibi işlerde bulunduğu görülmektedir 91 .…”