Medieval Europe 814-1450: Religion - Research Article from Arts and Humanities Through the Eras

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 198 pages of information about Medieval Europe 814-1450.

Medieval Europe 814-1450: Religion - Research Article from Arts and Humanities Through the Eras

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Diaspora and Reestablishment.

Judaism came to Europe as a result of a process known as diaspora (from the Greek "scattering"), which can refer to any number of migrations of Jewish communities when they were forced to leave their homes and live among Gentiles outside the Holy Land. Major diaspora occurred after the Babylonian exile in the sixth century B.C.E., after the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in the first century C.E., in the early medieval period following Muslim conquest of the Holy Land, and in the late medieval period linked to Christian inquisitions and persecutions. Medieval Jewish religious communities were quite diverse as the various diaspora movements resulted in pockets of settlement all over the Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, and European world. Those settling in Spain, known as the Sephardim, created a golden age of Jewish culture in Muslim Andalusia. Those who...

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