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Das Erkenntnispotenzial serieller städtischer Überlieferung zur Erforschung der christlich-jüdischen Beziehungen im spätmittelalterlichen Reichsgebiet
Abstract The research project ‘Corpus of Sources on the History of the Jews in the Late Medieval Empire’, based at the Arye Maimon Institute of the University of Trier and directed by Lukas Clemens and the Institute’s founder Alfred Haverkamp (1937–2021), was funded by the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz from 2006 to 2019 as a long-term project of basic research. The aim of the project was and still is to record all temporally and spatially relevant written sources (Hebrew, Latin and vernacular) of the late medieval empire for the period from 1273 to 1519 and, depending on the edition situation of each, to make them available to researchers online as full text or regest (www.medieval-ashkenaz.org). Even during the conception of the project, special attention was already being paid to making the serial sources, which have so far been almost completely neglected by research, available – especially in numerous city books, usable for research on the history of the Jews. This article provides an insight into this tradition, which in part offers a completely new view of the coexistence of Christians and Jews in the medieval city.
Keywords city books; coexistence of Christians and Jews, late medieval city
