1. Introduction

   • Jay R. Berkovitz
   • Ephraim Kanarfogel

   EditorialNotes 15 December 2017 Pages: 1 - 6

2. Marriage Before the Bench: Divorce Law and Litigation Strategies in Thirteenth-Century Ashkenaz

   • Rachel Furst

   OriginalPaper 12 December 2017 Pages: 7 - 30

3. Situating Maimonides’s Approach to the Oral Torah in Its Andalusian Context

   • Marc Herman

   OriginalPaper 14 December 2017 Pages: 31 - 46

4. One Question, Two Answers: Rabbinic Responsa as Legal Advocacy in the Medieval Islamic World

   • Phillip I. Lieberman

   OriginalPaper 15 December 2017 Pages: 47 - 65

5. Jewish Courts in Medieval England

   • Pinchas Roth

   OriginalPaper 12 December 2017 Pages: 67 - 82

6. On the Nuances of Reading Tosafist Literature and Other Medieval Rabbinic Texts for Trends in Religious Observance

   • Ephraim Kanarfogel

   OriginalPaper 06 December 2017 Pages: 83 - 102

7. The Increasing Reliance on Ritual Handbooks in Pre–Print Era Ashkenaz

   • Rachel Zohn Mincer

   OriginalPaper 14 December 2017 Pages: 103 - 128

8. The Use of Codified Law in the Rabbinic Courts of Frankfurt am Main on the Eve of the Enlightenment

   • Edward Fram

   OriginalPaper 13 December 2017 Pages: 129 - 147

9. Competing Perspectives on Legal Decision Making in Early Modern Ashkenaz

   • Jay R. Berkovitz

   OriginalPaper 11 December 2017 Pages: 149 - 171