De Sion exibit lex et verbum domini de Hierusalem: Essays on Medieval Law, Liturgy and Literature in Honour of Amnon Linder (Cultural Encounters in ... the Middle Ages)

by Yitzhak Hen

Amnon Linder, professor of medieval history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has published two seminal studies in the history of the Christian Holy Land and in Jewish-Christian relations in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Jerusalem-Toronto, 1987 and 1997 respectively) but in recent years has dedicated himself to the study of medieval liturgy, particularly Crusader liturgy of the liberation and destruction of Jerusalem. The essays gathered here from friends; colleagues and students of Prof. Linder pick up the themes of Linders publications - medieval law, liturgy and literature. The papers deal with a variety of sources and encompass the fourth to fifteenth centuries and span from the Holy Land to the British Isles and present different methodologies. They are organized chronologically and comprise the following O. Limor; Reading Sacred Egeria; Paula; and the Christian Holy Land B.-S. Albert; Le judaisme et les juifs dans l'hagiographie et la liturgie visigothique Y. Hen; Educating the Canon Law and Liturgy in a Carolingian Handbook from the Time of Charles the Bald B. Z. Kedar; Convergence of Oriental Christian; Muslim; and Frankish The Case of Saydnaya S. Schein; Servise de Marriage and Law Enforcement in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem Y. Friedman; Did Laws of War Exist in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem D. Jacoby, Pilgrimage in Crusader The Pardouns dAcre P. B. Roberts; Sermons, Preachers, and the Law A. M. Kleinberg; Depriving Parents of the Consolation of Two Legal Consilia on the Baptism of Jewish Children M. Goodich; Liturgy and the Foundation of Cults in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries J. Ziegler; Text and On the Rise of Physiognomic Thought in the Later Middle Ages M. Toch; The Peasant Community and its Medieval Bavaria Esther Cohen, Who Dese

214 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2001