The ‘Medieval Ashkenaz - Corpus of Sources on the History of the Jews in the Late Medieval Empire’ [Corpus der Quellen zur Geschichte der Juden im spätmittelalterlichen Reich] is a project conducted by the Arye Maimon Institute for Jewish History at Trier University. It aims at collecting, describing, annotating and presenting all written sources relating to the history of the Jews in the area covered by the German Empire between 1273 and 1519, as long as these sources can be dated and/or located. Such sources are preserved in various forms and come in Latin, Hebrew and in various vernacular languages. Published texts and documents are presented in abstract form, unpublished sources are edited in full. The sources convey ideas expressed by Jews on Jews and Christians as well as those by Christians on Jews. The ‘Corpus’ thus provides new information on Jewish history and on the history of Christian-Jewish relations in later medieval Europe.
Completed sections (‘subcorpora’) successively appear on the project’s website (www.medieval-ashkenaz.org), launched in 2011. They are mostly defined by geographical areas and divided into four periods (1273–1347; 1348–1390; 1391–1437; 1438–1520).
The ‘Corpus’ project was initiated by Professor Alfred Haverkamp, who also directed the work until his death in 2021. From 2006 through 2019 it was sponsored by the ‘Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz’. Work on the project still continues; its far-reaching long-term goals are aimed at providing a new basis of historical memory across religious borders, for new approaches towards the manifold identities of Jews and Christians, of Judaism and Christianity in the medieval world.
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The ‘Medieval Ashkenaz - Corpus of Sources on the History of the Jews in the Late Medieval Empire’ [Corpus der Quellen zur Geschichte der Juden im spätmittelalterlichen Reich] is a project conducted by the Arye Maimon Institute for Jewish History at Trier University. It aims at collecting, describing, annotating and presenting all written sources relating to the history of the Jews in the area covered by the German Empire between 1273 and 1519, as long as these sources can be dated and/or located. Such sources are preserved in various forms and come in Latin, Hebrew and in various vernacular languages. Published texts and documents are presented in abstract form, unpublished sources are edited in full. The sources convey ideas expressed by Jews on Jews and Christians as well as those by Christians on Jews. The ‘Corpus’ thus provides new information on Jewish history and on the history of Christian-Jewish relations in later medieval Europe.
Completed sections (‘subcorpora’) successively appear on the project’s website (www.medieval-ashkenaz.org), launched in 2011. They are mostly defined by geographical areas and divided into four periods (1273–1347; 1348–1390; 1391–1437; 1438–1520).
The ‘Corpus’ project was initiated by Professor Alfred Haverkamp, who also directed the work until his death in 2021. From 2006 through 2019 it was sponsored by the ‘Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz’. Work on the project still continues; its far-reaching long-term goals are aimed at providing a new basis of historical memory across religious borders, for new approaches towards the manifold identities of Jews and Christians, of Judaism and Christianity in the medieval world.