Early Middle Ages and Crusades
The synagogues of the royal domain converted into churches after the expulsion; that of the City becomes the Church of the Magdalene
1183·Paris
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The expulsion from the royal domain left places of worship and communal property vacant. In Paris, the great synagogue on the Île de la Cité was given to the Church and consecrated under the name of the Madeleine; other synagogues in the domain followed the same path.
The transformation of a synagogue into a church was not merely an appropriation: it was a sign, intended to be seen. It was repeated at every medieval expulsion, from England to Spain, and it is often through the mention of such a consecration that the existence of a vanished community is established today.
The Jews returned to Paris a few years later, against payment; the street that bore their name in the Middle Ages still exists, and excavations in the neighborhood have yielded Hebrew tombstones reused in the walls of the city.
- Period :
- Early Middle Ages and Crusades
- Type :
- Expulsion
- Region :
- Western Europe
- Country :
- France
Rigord, Gesta Philippi Augusti ; cartulaires parisiens.