Colonial Justice and the Jews of Venetian Crete
Rena N. Lauer shows how Crete's Jews turned not only to their own religious courts but also to the secular Venetian judicial system to address matters as prosaic as taxation and as dramatic as murder. In the process, Lauer contends, Venetian Jews grew more open and flexible, experiencing little...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia
PENN, University of Pennsylvania Press
2019, ©2019
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| Series: | The Middle Ages Series
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Rena N. Lauer shows how Crete's Jews turned not only to their own religious courts but also to the secular Venetian judicial system to address matters as prosaic as taxation and as dramatic as murder. In the process, Lauer contends, Venetian Jews grew more open and flexible, experiencing little of the anti-Judaism common in Western Europe. "A fascinating and much-needed contribution to our understanding of the Jews of Candia and their legal options under Venetian Rule."—Sally McKee, University of California, Davis |
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| Physical Description: | 304 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8122-9591-7 978-0- |