Abraham's heirs: Jews and Christians in medieval Europe

1. Abraham's Heirs 1

2. The First European Jews 26

3. "They Display Documents": Jewish Life in the Carolingian Empire 41

4. Cultural Counterpoint: Later Ninth and Tenth Centuries 58

5. "To Make a City of My Village": The Pivotal Eleventh Century 77

6. "In Witness to the Oneness": The First Crusade and the Jews of the Rhineland 91

7. Christian Renewal, Jewish Decline: The Twelfth Century 111

8. Encounters and Representations: Jews and Christians in Twelfth-Century Cultural Life 130

9. "The Yoke of Servitude": Late Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries 155

10. "Reveal No Secrets": Maintaining a Culture in a Hostile World 178

11. "Our Property": Jews in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century England 204

12. "Odious to God and Men": Persecutions and Expulsions 234.