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The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-39778-2

ISBN: 978-1-137-39776-8

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Oct 3, 2017

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Chapter 1Introduction: Jousting with Windmills

Mell, Julie L.

Pages: 1 –27

[Stephen Jay Gould once wrote that “the most erroneous stories are those we think we know best—and therefore never scrutinize or question.”2 This book will scrutinize the facts that “we think we know best” about medieval Jews, question how and why the tale of Jewish lending became a compelling...
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The Economic Function of the Jews: A Nineteenth-Century Story

Mell, Julie L.

Pages: 31 –75

[This chapter recounts the evolution of the narrative of the “Jewish economic function” from its origins in nineteenth-century liberal German scholarship. I aim to show that the narrative was fashioned out of nineteenth-century discourses on Jews and commerce in response to the issues of Jewish...
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Twentieth-Century Trajectories in European Economic History and the “Economic Function of the Jews”

Mell, Julie L.

Pages: 77 –151

[In the war years of 1943–1944, when the destruction of European Jewry was spiraling to its dreadful end, two Jewish émigrés took up their pens to write about Roscher’s old essay on the economic function of medieval Jewry. This was their war effort. For Guido Kisch and Toni Oelsner, writing about...
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“Rich as a Jew”? Wealth and Lending among Anglo-Jews

Mell, Julie L.

Pages: 155 –235

[Nowhere in medieval Europe are Jews thought to have been more wholly sunk in moneylending than in Anglo-Norman England.2 Rapid growth of royal administration in England generated copious records of Jewish loans and Jewish litigation over loans, Jewish tallages, and fines. An entire department of...
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An Economic Function for the Crown? On Tallage, Taxation, and the Legal Status of the Jews

Mell, Julie L.

Pages: 237 –316

[The image of Jews as a “royal milch cow” has been sustained by a web of interpretations linking Jewish taxation, the exchequer of the Jews, and Jewish legal status. In the most schematic accounts, tallage works to extort, and the exchequer of the Jews, to protect. The exchequer of the Jews and...

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