Introduction
Historical and Geographical
Considerations
Social Structure
Literary History
Philosophical and Religious
Thought
Mystical Literature
Jewish History and Literature
The End of the Middle Ages
Conclusion
Suggested Reading
Introduction
The European Middle Ages, despite its foreignness (alterity) and chronological distance from us today, exert tremendous fascination on people in the modern …
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