William Urban

Economy, society, and lordship in medieval Poland, 1100-1250

CONTENTS: Guide to Polish and German Place-Names Introduction Taverns, Markets, and Oxen: Exchange and the Economy of an Ecclesiastical Estate Peasants, Craftsmen, and Revenues in the Economy of an Ecclesiastical Estate Ecclesiastical Immunity and Access to Peasants: Hunting, Transport, Defense Ecclesiastical Immunity and Jurisdiction over Peasants The German Law of Rural Settlement: Sources and Elements German Law within the Polish Duchies: Variation and Routine Adaptations of German Law: Regional Peripheries and Tenurial Variation Conclusion Bibliography Index.

Christianization and the Rise of Christian Monarchy: Scandinavia, Central Europe, and Rus' c. 900–1200 (review)

The second article is on the views of Agobard of Lyons and the third on “Papal and Royal Attitudes toward Jewish Lending in the Thirteenth Century.” There follows a long piece on medieval Jewish views of papal policy.The basic argument is that from the twelfth into the sixteenth centuries, the standing papal policy was, granted Jewish subservience, to protect and secure a place for the Jews in the Christian world order.Here we get an especially sharp form of an observation running throughout the book, that the soteriologically necessary role of the Jews according to Romans contradicts the idea of Galatians 4:21–5:14 and I Cor. 5:5–6:20 “that the Jews were primarily a source of social infection whose presence must be shunned at all costs”(IV,p.2).This seems to be a comparison of incommensurate things, and it is not clear how the commitment on all sides to purity categories and boundaries contradicts the idea that the Jews have a necessary place in the history of salvation.