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A period of great change for Europe, the thirteenth-century was a time of both animosity and intimacy for Jewish and Christian communities. In this wide-ranging collection, scholars discuss the changing paradigms in the research and history of Jews and Christians in medieval Europe, discussing law, scholarly pursuits, art, culture, and poetry.

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Introduction: Jews and Christians in Thirteenth-Century France; Elisheva Baumgarten and Judah D. Galinsky PART I: LEARNING, LAW, AND SOCIETY 1. Continuity and Change in the Study of the Bible: the Ten Commandments in Christian Exegesis; Lesley Smith 2. Psalters for Men, Books of Hours for Women: Arras as a Case Study; Margo Strumsa-Uzan 3. What Happened to Christian Hebraism in the Thirteenth Century?; Ari Geiger 4. "I Have Asked for Nothing except the Ius Commune ": Legal Change in Thirteenth-Century France; Karl Shoemaker 5. Between Ashkenaz (Germany) and Tsarfat (France): Two Approaches towards Popularizing Jewish Law; Judah D. Galinsky 6. Authority, Control and Conflict in Thirteenth-Century Paris: Contextualizing the Talmud Trial; Yosef Schwartz PART II: POLEMICS, PERSECUTIONS, AND MUTUAL PERCEPTIONS 7. Joseph ben Nathan´s Sefer Yosef ha-Mekanné and the Medieval Jewish Critique of Christianity; Daniel J. Lasker 8. How, When, and To What Degree was the Jewish-Christian Debate Transformed in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries?; David Berger 9. Of Milk and Blood: Innocent III and the Jews, revisited; John Tolan 10. The Image of Christians in Medieval Ashkenazic Rabbinic Literature; Ephraim Kanarfogel 11. Jews "Feigning Devotion": Christian Representations of Converted Jews in French Chronicles before and after the Expulsion of 1306; Jessica Marin Elliot 12. Women behind the Law: Lay Religious Women in Thirteenth-Century France and the Problem of Textual Resistance; Anne E. Lester PART III: CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS: ART, POETRY, AND LITERATURE 13. Mirroring Samson the Martyr: Reflections of Jewish-Christian Relations in the North French Hebrew Illuminated Miscellany ; Sara Offenberg 14. The Lament on the Martyrs of Troyes as a Monument of Judeo-French on the Verge of the Expulsions; Cyril Aslanov 15. Exegesis and Romance: Revisiting the Old French Translation of Kallir ; Susan E. Einbinder, with an appendix by Samuel N. Rosenberg 16. Abstinence in Medieval France: A Comparison of "A Slave for Seven Years" in Sefer ha-ma´asim to "The Life of St. Alexis"; Rella Kushelevsky

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"Elisheva Baumgarten and Judah Galinsky´s volume ... is a welcome reminder of the Jews´ long history in the French Hexagone. ... All the essays are well-researched, meticulously edited, and to the point. Indeed, this a rare example of an edited book with a coherent construction and in which the different essays are in real dialogue with one another. ... this is a volume of uncommon thematic coherence and all together a superb piece of scholarship." (Flora Cassen, The Medieval Review, 2016)

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