ePub Indigenous and Popular Thinking in América (Latin America Otherwise) by Rodolfo Kusch in History

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First published in 1938; Jacob Rader Marcus’s The Jews in The Medieval World has remained an indispensable resource for its comprehensive view of Jewish historical experience from late antiquity through the early modern period; viewed through primary source documents in English translation. In this new work based on Marcus’s classic source book; Marc Saperstein has recast the volume’s focus; now fully centered on Christian Europe; updated the work’s organizational format; and added seventy-two new annotated sources. In his compelling introduction; Saperstein supplies a modern and thought-provoking discussion of the changing values that influence our understanding of history; analyzing issues surrounding periodization; organization; and inclusion. Through a vast range of documents written by Jews and Christians; including historical narratives; legal opinions; martyrologies; memoirs; polemics; epitaphs; advertisements; folktales; ethical and pedagogical writings; book prefaces and colophons; commentaries; and communal statutes; The Jews in Christian Europe allows the actors and witnesses of events to speak for themselves.