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Author Jordan, William Chester

Title The French Monarchy and the Jews : From Philip Augustus to the Last Capetians / William Chester Jordan
Published Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
©1989

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Description 1 online resource : 2 illustrations
Series The Middle Ages Series
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps -- Preface -- I. Philip Augustus and the Jews, 1180-1223 -- 1. The Jews of the Royal Domain -- 2. Conflict, Abuse, and Expulsion: "That Wicked King" -- 3. A New Beginning, 1198-1204 -- 4. The Machinery and Rhythm of Exploitation, 1204-1210 -- 5. The Last Years -- II. By Honest Labor: The Transformation of Royal Policy and Its Application, 1223-1285 -- 6. Louis VIII and the Stabilimentum of 1223 -- 7. Conquests in the South -- 8. The Regency and the Jews -- 9. The Evolution of Capetian Policy, 1242-1285 -- 10. Communities in Flux: Picardy, the Narbonnais, the Toulousain -- III. Journeys to Dark Lands: The Era of the Last Capetians, 1285-1328 -- 11. Prelude to the Great Expulsion -- 12. The Confiscations of 1306 -- 13. "Every Jew Must Leave My Land" -- 14. Disillusionment -- 15. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Backmatter
Summary From 1179 to 1328 relations between French Christians and Jews were chronically unstable--exploitation, repression, and expulsion were sanctioned by a government dedicated to a purified Christian state. The French Monarchy and the Jews tells in rich and compelling detail the fate of the Jews in Capetian France
Notes In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Dec. 09, 2016)
Subject Jews -- France -- History -- 70-1789
HISTORY -- Medieval.
Jews
SUBJECT France -- History -- Capetians, 987-1328. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051265
Subject France
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781512805321
1512805327