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In Ashkenaz too, social reality was more complex than the picture of a society more traditional and more deferential to rabbinic authority. In thirteenth-century France, Rabbi Isaac of Corbeil was asked about a Jewish woman who accepted baptism and took a Christian lover, then had second thoughts and went back to Judaism, and whose Christian partner converted to Judaism. May they marry? He ruled that they may not. It was hardly a typical case, but it suggests that in Ashkenaz as well, Jewish-Christian relations could not always be policed as authorities of both faiths wished.

References

1. p. 211

   supports · main text · ch. 7

   Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman. The Jews: A History. 3rd edition. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.

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2. p. 211

   supports · main text · ch. 7

   Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman. The Jews: A History. 3rd edition. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.

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