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Early Medieval Jewish Policy in Western Europe was first published in 1977. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. This is the first study of early medieval Jewish policy in the West which examines the nature of this policy from the perspective and aims of its formulators. As the author points out, most specialists in Jewish history have been dominated by what the historian Salo Baron has called the "lachrymose conception, ' a view which emphasized persecution and suffering as a fundamental theme of Jewish history. Professor Bachrach challenges this view and attacks what he calls the myth of Christian church domination of the early medieval world

The writing of medieval military history, at present, is dominated by a romantic emphasis on 'chivarly' and 'knightly' individualism. This parti pris fundamentally distorts the history of medieval warfare and undermines a proper understanding of medieval society by making it seem intrinsically alien to both Roman and early modern military culture. In this study of a siege, which dominated warfare during the Middle Ages, the material realities have been emphasized, e.g., administration and logistics, as contrasted to literary propaganda and religious propaganda, in an effort to stimulate discussion regarding the ineluctable facts that undergird war throughout history.