Author: Patricia Skinner
Publisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 9780851159317
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Accounts of specific communities and themes build to a comprehensive picture of Jews in England C11 - C13.
Author: Patricia Skinner
Publisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 9780851159317
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Accounts of specific communities and themes build to a comprehensive picture of Jews in England C11 - C13.
Author: Miriamne Ara Krummel
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319637487
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
This volume examines the teaching of Jewishness within the context of medieval England. It covers a wide array of academic disciplines and addresses a multitude of primary sources, including medieval English manuscripts, law codes, philosophy, art, and literature, in explicating how the Jew-as-Other was formed. Chapters are devoted to the teaching of the complexities of medieval Jewish experiences in the modern classroom. Jews in Medieval England: Teaching Representations of the Other also grounds medieval conceptions of the Other within the contemporary world where we continue to confront the problematic attitudes directed toward alleged social outcasts.
Author: Gloria Cigman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antisemitism
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Reflects why after the expulsion of the Jews from England in 1290 they remained a persistent phenomenon in English culture, e.g. as a recurring image in passion plays and in literature (for instance, in Chaucer). Medieval culture identified the Jew with the Devil and with Judas. Jesus' enemies were always depicted, in plays and in iconography, as Jews. Contends that the absence of a real Jewish presence allowed the development of a negative model essential to the religious instruction of Christians. Jew-hatred was used to reinforce the Christian faith, an urgent need in the 14th century when the Church faced heresies and growing inertia of the clergy and laity.
Author: Norman Golb
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521580328
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 621
Book Description
This 1998 book is a comprehensive account of the high Hebraic culture developed by the Jews in Normandy during the Middle Ages, and in particular during the Anglo-Norman period. This culture has remained virtually unknown to the public and to the scholarly world throughout modern times, until a combination of recent manuscript discoveries and archaeological findings delineated this phenomenon for the first time. The book explores the origins of this remarkable community, beginning with topographical evidence pointing to the arrival of the Jews in Normandy as early as Roman and Gallo-Roman times, through autograph documentary testimony available in the Cairo Genizah manuscripts and early medieval Latin sources, finally using the rich manuscript evidence of twelfth- and early thirteenth-century writers which attest to the high cultural level attained by this community and to its social and political interaction with the Christian world of Anglo-Norman times and their aftermath.
Author: Robin R. Mundill
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441138870
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
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 a hostile environment. The origins of the business world are considered including the fact that the medieval English Jew perfected modern business methods many centuries before its recognised time. What emerges is a picture of a lost society which had much to contribute and yet was turned away in 1290.
Author: Leonie Star
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781922086570
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
William Duke of Normandy conquers England in 1066. Jews follow him, arriving as traders. They have financial expertise and money-lending capabilities that are much needed in the medieval economy. A few have become among the wealthiest in the land. Yet medieval Jews have a unique status; they are owned by the King. This ultimately proves their downfall as they are consistently and savagely taxed.After two hundred years, anti-Jewish feeling — bolstered from Rome — is growing in intensity. The pious and prejudiced Edward I has passed a law forbidding Jewish money-lending. Italian financiers operating in England now provide him with money at interest. The value of his Jews is rapidly diminishing.It is All Saints’ Day, 1 November 1290, and by royal edict every single one of England’s Jews must leave the country or be put to death. From all over England families of Jews, carrying little more than essential religious items, walk south to begin their exile from the Isles of the Sea. This is the first permanent ethnic cleansing of a Jewish population from a whole country in the history of Europe.England’s Ethnic Cleansing of the Jews is a telling exploration of the treatment of Jews in medieval England. Anglo-Jewry rises to a peak of prosperity by 1200 then falls into the abyss one hundred years later. Its ethnic cleansing sets an iniquitous precedent in Europe. It has a malevolent influence that grows over time, culminating with horrific effect in the 20th century. About the AuthorLeonie Star began her professional life as a secondary school teacher. A family move to Canada in the 1960s saw her undertake two higher degrees in English, which she later followed with a degree in law from the University of New South Wales. She is a former principal of the Women’s College within the University of Sydney and a writer and editor of legal material.Her work as an author began after the death of Professor Julius Stone, whose biographer she became. She has written several other books, all non-fiction, choosing a wide variety of subjects according to her current interests. While undertaking research for the Stone biography she stumbled upon material about England’s ethnic cleaning of the Jews. Her own Jewish heritage and previous ignorance of this fascinating story prompted her interest in medieval Anglo-Jewish history. Leonie was born in England but has lived in Australia since she was a child. She is based in Sydney and has two daughters, both of whom live overseas, necessitating frequent travel to the United States and England. When not reading, researching topics of interest and writing, she spends her times attending classical music concerts and playing bridge.
Author: Michael Adler (Le Rev.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Author: Colin Richmond
Author: Michael Adler
Author: Richard Barrie Dobson