Religion and Law in Medieval Christian

and Muslim Societies

2
Series Editor
John TOLAN
Editorial Board:
Camilla ADANG, Tel Aviv University
Nora BEREND, Cambridge University
Nicolas DE LANGE, Cambridge University
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Christian MLLER, Institut de Recherches et dHistoire des Textes,
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interreligious interactions, while judges and scholars interpreted these laws.
Religion and Law in Medieval Christian and Muslim Societies presents a series of studies on these
phenomena. Our goal is to study the history of the legal status of religious minorities in Medieval
societies in all their variety and complexity. Most of the publications in this series are the products of research of the European Research Council project RELMIN: The Legal Status of Religious
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JEWS IN EARLY CHRISTIAN LAW:

Byzantium and the Latin West,
6th-11th centuries

Edited by
John TOLAN, Nicholas DE LANGE, Laurence FOSCHIA
and Capucine NEMO-PEKELMAN

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Capucine Nemo-Pekelman & Laurence Foschia, Introduction

I - Rank and status of Jews in civil and canonical law
1. Ralph W. Mathisen, The Citizenship and Legal Status of Jews in RoMAN,AWDURING,ATE!NTIQUITYCA #%
2. Cline Martin, Statut des juifs, statut de libre dans lOccident du haut
-OYENyGELEXEMPLEIBRIQUE
 $AVID &REIDENREICH *EWS 0AGANS AND (ERETICS IN %ARLY -EDIEVAL
Canon Law

II - Lawyers at work : from the adaptation of Roman Law to the creation

of canonical collections and false canons
4. "RUNO*UDIC'RGOIRELE'RANDETLESJUIFS0RATIQUEJURIDIQUEETENJEUXTHOLOGIQUES
5. Jessie Sherwood, Interpretation, negotiation, and adaptation: Converting the Jews in Gerhard of Mainzs Collectio
6. 0HILIPPE$EPREUX,ESJUIFSDANSLEDROITCAROLINGIEN
 Capucine Nemo-Pekelman, Signum mortis : une nouvelle explication
du signe de la rouelle ?
III - Juridical sources as indications of Jewish life and institutions?
 !LEXANDER0ANAYOTOV*EWISH#OMMUNAL/CESIN"YZANTINE,AWAND
Jewish Inscriptions from the Balkans
 Bat-Sheva Albert, Les communauts juives vues travers la lgislaTIONROYALEETECCLSIASTIQUEVISIGOTHIQUEETFRANQUE
10. Raul Gonzlez-Salinero, The Legal Eradication of the Jewish Literary
Legacy in Visigothic Spain
11. Johannes Heil, Getting them in or Keeping them out? Theology,
Law, and the Beginnings of Jewish Life at Mainz in the 10th and 11th
centuries
IV - From the Law to Violence, from Violence to Law
12. Paul Magdalino, All Israel will be saved? The forced baptism of the
Jews and imperial eschatology
 Rachel Stocking, Forced Converts, Crypto-Judaism, and Children:
2ELIGIOUS)DENTICATIONIN6ISIGOTHIC3PAIN
14. Mara Jess Fuente, Jewish Women and Visigoth Law

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15. /SCAR0RIETO$OMINGUEZ4HEMASSCONVERSIONOF*EWSDECREEDBY
%MPEROR"ASIL)INITSREECTIONINCONTEMPORARYLEGALCODESAND
its underlying reasons
16. Amnon Linder, The Jewish Oath
Nicholas de Lange and John Tolan, Conclusion

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mass conversion of all the Jews within the Byzantine Empire, thus breaking
with Constantinoples long-lasting tolerance. It is surprising that Basil had to
spend six years on the imperial throne before he decided to adopt this measure. To date, no convincing reason has been proposed for such a delay, even
though several extant historiographical testimonies, both Greek and Hebrew,
report the implications of this persecution2. According to the historian
Symeon Logothetes, this operation proved highly successful thanks to the
personal intercession of the Emperor, who treated all Jews who agreed to
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Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. I should like to thank Paul Magdalino and Nicholas
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Symeon Logothetes 256, 10-13: 
           
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as there were at that time, by his own hand, after they had been received by all the dignitaries,

Jews in Early Christian Law: Byzantium and the Latin West, 6th-11th centuries
John TOLAN, Nicholas DE LANGE, Laurence FOSCHIA and Capucine NEMO-PEKELMAN,
Turnhout, 2013, (Relmin 2) pp. 283-310
FHG
DOI 10.1484/M.RELMIN-EB.1.101889

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