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The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender Julie L. Mell

The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender By Julie L. Mell

The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender by Julie L. Mell


Summary

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.

The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender Summary

The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender: Volume II by Julie L. Mell

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.

The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender Reviews

This book is a seriously adept piece of scholarship which I suspect (and hope) will become an instant classic for students of medieval Jews in general and of medieval Anglo-Jewry specifically. (Towards a Bibliography of Medieval Anglo-Jewry, anglo-jewishbibliography.blogspot.de, January, 2017)

About Julie L. Mell

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 fur Judische Geschichte Kultur und Museumswesen, and received fellowships from the Yad HaNadiv, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, and the American Association of University Women.

Table of Contents

.Chapter 1 The Discourse of Usury and the Jewish Usurer in medieval France.-.Chapter 2 Commercialization among the Jewish Merchants of Marseille.-.Chapter 3 From Gift Exchange to Profit Economy reconsidered: Towards a Cultural History of Money.-.Conclusion 'Which is the Merchant here? And which the Jew?'.

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NLS9783319816968
9783319816968
3319816969
The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender: Volume II by Julie L. Mell
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Springer International Publishing AG
2018-08-28
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