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The King's Jews: Money, Massacre and Exodus in Medieval England de Dr Robin R. Mundill

The King's Jews: Money, Massacre and Exodus in Medieval England

Autor Dr Robin R. Mundill
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 iun 2010

În volumul The King's Jews, Dr Robin R. Mundill ne propune o incursiune riguroasă în istoria Angliei medievale, urmărind parcursul comunității evreiești de la stabilire până la decretul radical de expulzare emis de Edward I în iulie 1290. Observăm cum autorul reușește să transforme o cercetare academică densă într-o narațiune accesibilă, evidențiind faptul că Anglia a fost prima țară europeană care a forțat o minoritate religioasă să își părăsească hotarele, permițându-le acestora să ia doar bunurile mobile, în timp ce proprietățile imobiliare erau confiscate de coroană.

Suntem de părere că forța acestui studiu rezidă în echilibrul dintre analiza economică și cea socială. The King's Jews explorează modul în care evreii medievali au anticipat metode de afaceri moderne cu secole înainte de recunoașterea lor oficială, fiind totodată supuși unor violențe extreme, precum masacrul de la Clifford's Tower din York. Ca și England's Jewish Solution, scrisă de același autor, lucrarea acoperă perioada critică a secolului al XIII-lea, dar cu o metodologie care pune un accent mai mare pe trăirea umană și pe izolarea într-un mediu ostil, dincolo de cifrele tallajului.

Structura cărții, organizată în șapte capitole tematice, ghidează cititorul prin procesele de colonizare, interacțiunile economice și relația complexă dintre Biserică și Sinagogă. Comparativ cu England's Jews de John Tolan, care analizează rolul evreilor în memoria istorică, The King's Jews se ancorează mai profund în realitatea documentară a timpului, folosind peste 400 de surse primare pentru a reconstrui o societate pierdută care a contribuit fundamental la dezvoltarea statului englez înainte de a fi respinsă definitiv.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781847251862
ISBN-10: 1847251862
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 5 illus
Dimensiuni: 154 x 236 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Continuum
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este esențială pentru cercetătorii istoriei medievale și pentru cititorii interesați de originile antisemitismului instituționalizat. Dr Robin R. Mundill oferă o perspectivă clară asupra modului în care o minoritate a influențat economia unei națiuni, fiind în același timp victimă a politicii regale. Veți câștiga o înțelegere profundă a evenimentelor care au dus la prima expulzare în masă a evreilor din Europa, totul într-un format documentat scrupulos.

Descriere

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.

Cuprins

Introduction \ Chapter 1 : Colonisation and confinement \ Chapter 2 : Jews and the economy \ Chapter 3 : A community within a state? \ Chapter 4 : Saints and martyrs \ Chapter 5 : Christians and Jews \ Chapter 6 : Church and Synagogue \ Chapter 7 : The final phase

Recenzii

From the author of the acclaimed book on the expulsion of the Jews from England in 1290 we now have a lively account of the Jews of medieval England. From now on no one will have any excuse for not including Jews as an integral part of the history of Norman and Angevin England.
The history of medieval English Jews was well-served by earlier scholars, but as more and more evidence has been sifted and as technical scholarship has blossomed over the last several decades, it also became clear that there was a pressing need for a comprehensive new synthesis. With Robin Mundill's eminently readable book this need is addressed head on. The arguments he offers and the insights he provides into the relations of Jews and Christians in medieval England will be the ones the next generation of scholars will have to engage if they are to make further progress on this exciting subject. Mundill's accomplishment is commendable, and his work will constitute a powerful stimulus to further research.
Robin Mundill's new book is a very welcome addition to the all-too-short shelf of books dealing with the Jews of medieval England. It reflects Mundill's enviable familiarity with the manuscript and secondary sources, which he weaves into a praiseworthy overview of his subject, and presents a readable picture of how Jews lived in a medieval Christian milieu.
Mention in Times Higher Education.
Reviewed in Economic History Review
The King's Jews is the product of much research and contains much information of interest and value. Even experts in the field will encounter characters and cases they did not know.
The current volume [of this book], with maps and illustrations as well as glossary, abbreviations, details of money, extensive endnoters, manuscript sources, bibliography and index, summarizes in a vivid but basically sound fashion what is known about the Jewish immigration and the spread of the resultant settlements in England, the manner in which Jews made their living and some amassed extensive properties and huge capital, and the relationship between the monarch and the Jews.
It is a sad and sorry tale but is well worth the retelling. There is no better guide than Robin Mundill ... It is a fascinating chapter in English history and Mundill does it full justice.
'[A] fascinating vision of the Middle Ages ... lively and engaging.'
'Mr Mundill gives us a good survey based on a mastery of surviving records.'
'The author, who is well versed in both the primary and secondary sources of his subject, writes interestingly about the Jewish population... Overall, this is a useful book.'
'The King's Jews is written with verve and enthusiasm, clarity and balance. It provides an excellent starting-point for those wishing to understand not only the factual, historical details of the Jew's lives, but also the complicated, intricate relationship they had with the communities from whom they would ultimately be expelled.'
Robin Mundill's fine volume is an overview for the general reader of a great deal of innovative scholarship from the last twenty-five years on Christian-Jewish relations in England.
Illuminating for both scholar and layman, richly researched (over 400 primary and secondary sources, with scrupulous notes provided for each chapter), indexed, with glossary, illustrations, and maps, The King's Jews is an engaging, thorough, and edifying work.