
Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe (with Prof. Ephraim Shoham-Steiner)
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Penitential Demands of the Goliaths
The gilm had a list of penitential mesures that were to be administered in case haspitali le hospicalum, someone takes a life. And if one wanted to return to the community, he had to undergo very severe what is interesting to see is first how askanazi jury draws on this galonic source. The reason for pushback is because they were very, very extreme and very severe. A people who are cused of being murderers were not only shunned from their communities and ostracized but also forced to live on bread and water for an entire week.
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