Because Christian laws said that Christian people could not lend money out at interest, and yet most kings and queens need to borrow money, the Jews played a major role in the medieval economy as moneylenders. ... Feudalism was the dominant social system in medieval Europe, which guaranteed protection to vassals, or landowners, who offered their allegiance in return. ... This claim was perpetrated throughout the Middle Ages until the 20th century, but the idea of a blood libel had developed dating back to the Hellenistic times, when it was directed towards Christians as well as Jews by the pag...

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Maimonides resting place is still a place of pilgrimage in modern times. Not only has he made significant impacts in the Jewish tradition but is also recognised by schoalrs in sciences and mathematics hence he is considered a historical rarity, because he is the only medieval Jewish Philosopher who is still continually recognised outside Judiasm "Maimonides is perhaps the only philosopher in the middle ages, perhaps even now, who symbolises the confluence of four cultures: Greco-Roman, Arab, Jewish and Western....

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The separation of east and West has continued into modern times, despite repeated attempts at reconciliation. ... Medieval Christianity in the West, unlike its eastern counterpart, developed into a single entity. ...

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He has been identified as the " first major European thinker in modern times to embrace democratic republicanism as the highest and most rational form of political organisation,"" in which all men were equal. ... The Jewish-Islamic Medieval mystical tradition also approached this. ...

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