Caption
The Fight of Jews from the Medieval West
Summary
Color-coded map shows
- Regions forbidden to Jews:
- before 1300 (blue)
- before 1400 (purple)
- prohibitions varying according to place and time before 1500 (pink)
- other Catholic countries (yellow)
- Muslim world circa 1500 (green);
- Migration:
- from England in the 8th century (purple arrows)
- from France – 14th-15th centuries (pink arrows)
- from the Holy Roman Empire – 14th-15th centuries (blue arrows);
- Guest communities and centers of new Jewish settlement (black squares);
- Major Jewish communities in Western Europe (black dots);
- Other significant Jewish communities (white dots);
- Slaughter of Jews by the “”Armleder”” in Central Germany -1298-1303- (red star);
- Slaughter of Jews by “”Rindfleisch”” in Franconia and Alsace (1336-1338) (red star).
Source
The Penguin Atlas of Diasporas. By Gerard Chaliand and Jean-Pierre Rageau. Maps by Catherine Petit. Penguin Books U.S.A. Inc., 1995. (p. 20)
Copyright
Gerard Chaliand and Jean-Pierre Rageau