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The King's Converts: Jewish Conversion in Medieval London

Autor Lauren Fogle
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 26 noi 2018
In the Middle Ages, Jews who converted to Christianity occupied a shadowy and often dangerous place between the two religions. Rejected by their former community, and sometimes not accepted fully as Christians, converts were often destitute and at the mercy of noble benefactors. Only in London was there an official, royally sanctioned and funded, policy of conversion. When Henry III founded the Domus Conversorum, in 1232, he created a unique institution, one intended to house, protect, and instruct converts from Judaism.



This book provides an analysis of Jewish conversion in England and continental Europe in the 12th and 13th centuries and offers a detailed look at London's Domus Conversorum: its finances, its administration, and its inhabitants. Using royal records, financial accounts and receipts, Church letters and documents, London wills and assizes, and chronicles, this book presents the most in depth account of Jewish conversion in London to date.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781498589208
ISBN-10: 1498589200
Pagini: 274
Ilustrații: 3 b/w illustrations; 19 tables;
Dimensiuni: 160 x 229 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Lexington Books
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Chapter 1: Conversion in Twelfth Century England

Chapter 2: Conversion in Thirteenth Century England

Chapter 3: Career Converts: Converts in the King's Service and in Trade

Chapter 4: The Domus Conversorum: A Royal Project

Chapter 5: The Domus Conversorum: Post Expulsion of the Jews

Chapter 6: The Domus Conversorum: The Converts

Chapter 7: The Domus Conversorum: Buildings and Administration

Appendix 1: The Converts of the Domus Conversorum

Appendix 2: The Wardens of the Domus Conversorum

Recenzii

The King's Jews sheds new light on how converts lived in medieval London, but it also tells the story of the role, function, and symbolic and practical significance of the Domus Conversorum for the English kings who supported it-some reluctantly- through its history. This is an important and welcome addition to the growing scholarship on Jewish conversion.
In this original book dealing with the Jewish community in medieval London, Dr. Fogle has particularly focused on those Jews who 'broke faith' and apostatized. She examines the pressures (or inducements) that were brought to bear on the London Jews and their treatment once they had become 'conversi'. In this study, she has been able to shed light on the attitudes to Jews prevailing among the London population, and reveals for the first time the distinctiveness of the policies pursued by Henry III and later English kings. In her research Dr Fogle made the unexpected discovery that the house in London founded by Henry III for converted Jews - the Domus Coversorum - continued to be important to refugee Jews from all over Europe well into the sixteenth century: its significance clearly did not end with the expulsion of the Jews in 1290. This important study throws new light not only on the Jews themselves but also on the communities in which they lived and, on occasion, prospered.