Overview
- Volume I available here: https://www.palgrave.com/9781137397768
- Illuminates how changes in Jewish history change our understanding of European history
- Refutes the narrative of the Jewish moneylender with an in-depth economic study of the Jewish community in medieval Europe
- Offers a novel interpretation of central topics, such as the usury debate, commercial contracts, and moral literature on money and value
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History (CIH)
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Some Explorations: Ashkenaz and Beyond
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book challenges a common historical narrative, which portrays medieval Jews as moneylenders who filled an essential economic role in Europe. Where Volume I traced the development of the narrative in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and refuted it with an in-depth study of English Jewry, Volume II explores the significance of dissolving the Jewish narrative for European history. It extends the study from England to northern France, the Mediterranean, and central Europe and deploys the methodologies of legal, cultural, and religious history alongside economic history. Each chapter offers a novel interpretation of key topics, such as the Christian usury campaign, the commercial revolution, and gift economy / profit economy, to demonstrate how the revision of Jewish history leads to new insights in European history.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Julie L. Mell is Associate Professor of History at North Carolina State University, USA where she teaches courses in medieval history and Jewish history. She has published in Jewish Historical Studies, Jewish History, and the Wiener Jahrbuch für Jüdische Geschichte Kultur und Museumswesen, and received fellowships from the Yad HaNadiv, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, and the American Association of University Women.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender
Book Subtitle: Volume II
Authors: Julie L. Mell
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-34186-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34185-9Published: 20 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81696-8Published: 28 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-34186-6Published: 07 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2945-6630
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6649
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 264
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Medieval Europe, Labor History, Social History