Movement, Geography, and Rabbinic Culture in High Medieval Northern Europe

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ID16901898
AuthorsTzafrir Barzilay (0000-0003-1414-1165, Bar-Ilan University, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume15
Issue1
Pages34
Publication date2023-12-25
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel15010034
OpenAlexW4390235710
LanguageEN
References cited30

Despite the distance between their different communities and the difficulties of medieval travel, the Jews of northern Europe developed typical common legal and communal traditions. Rabbinic students traveled hundreds of kilometers to study with famous rabbis, rabbis themselves often relocated from one community to another, and questions were regularly sent to faraway rabbinic authorities and were quickly answered. This article sheds light on the movement and communication patterns of medieval Jewish scholars as a social group. It includes three sections; the first focuses on the movement patterns of prominent rabbis, the second on their forms of communication, and the third on the way these practices were reflected in the organization of larger communal structures. Overall, the article highlights the major role that networks of movement and communication played in the intellectual culture of the rabbinic elite (and other Jews as well) in high medieval northern Europe

Aesthetics · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Elite · Geography · Judaism · Middle Ages · Political science · Sociology · Classics · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · Medieval Literature and History · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity

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