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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818515503321

Autore

Mundill Robin R.

Titolo

The king's Jews : money, massacre and exodus in medieval England / / Robin R. Mundill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Bloomsbury, , [2010]

©2010

ISBN

1-4411-7362-5

1-282-87438-1

9786612874383

1-4411-3887-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Disciplina

942.004924

Soggetti

Jews - England - History - To 1500

Jews - England - Social conditions

Great Britain History Medieval period, 1066-1485

England Ethnic relations History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1 Colonisation and confinement; 2 Jews and the economy; 3 A community within a state; 4 Saints and martyrs; 5 Christians and Jews; 6 Church and Synagogue; 7 Dissolution and Diaspora; Glossary; Abbreviations; Money; Notes; Manuscript sources; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In July 1290, Edward I issued writs to the Sheriffs of the English counties ordering them to enforce a decree to expel all Jews from England before All Saints' Day of that year.  England became the first country to expel a Jewish minority from its borders. They were allowed to take their portable property but their houses were confiscated by the king. In a highly readable account, Robin Mundill considers the Jews of medieval England as victims of violence (notably the massacre of Shabbat haGadol when York 's Jewish community perished at Clifford's Tower) and as a people apart, isolated amidst