All Outputs (32)

What got me into History? (2024)
Other
Irwin, D. (2024). What got me into History?. [Magazine Article]

This was an invited submission to the Historical Association's 'HA News'. In addition to addressing the question posed in the title, I was also asked to reflect on my experiences as an Independent Scholar.

Jews and Labour in Medieval England: Episcopal Theory and Legislative Reality (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Irwin, D. (2024, January). Jews and Labour in Medieval England: Episcopal Theory and Legislative Reality. Paper presented at Religious Minorities and Labour: Towards a New Paradigm, Queen Mary University of London

This was an invited presentation to a workshop feeding into the MIREL project, which is exploring Religious Minorities and Labour Specialization.

My paper took, as it's starting point, Robert Grosseteste's letter to Margaret de Quincy (1231-2), an... Read More about Jews and Labour in Medieval England: Episcopal Theory and Legislative Reality.

Social Hierarchies and Networks in the Thirteenth-Century London Jewry (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Irwin, D. (2023). Social Hierarchies and Networks in the Thirteenth-Century London Jewry. In Thirteenth Century England XVIII: Proceedings of the Cambridge Conference, 2019 (189-208)

The article revisits the social hierarchy of the medieval Anglo-Jewish community by focusing on the careers of two London Jews: Master Elias son of Master Moses (one of the majores) and Cresse son of Genta (one of the mediocres).

Review of Adrienne Williams Boyarin. The Christian Jew and the Unmarked Jewess: The Polemics of Sameness in Medieval English Anti-Judaism. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. Pp. 352. $79.95 (cloth). (2022)
Journal Article
Irwin, D. (2022). Review of Adrienne Williams Boyarin. The Christian Jew and the Unmarked Jewess: The Polemics of Sameness in Medieval English Anti-Judaism. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. Pp. 352. $79.95 (cloth). Journal of British Studies, 61(2), 456-458. https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2022.47

Review: Thou Art the Man: The Masculinity of David in the Christian and Jewish Middle Ages, by Ruth Mazo (2022)
Journal Article
Irwin, D. (2022). Review: Thou Art the Man: The Masculinity of David in the Christian and Jewish Middle Ages, by Ruth Mazo. #Journal not on list, 53, 179-181. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.jhs.2022v53.013

New Approaches to Medieval Anglo-Jewish History (2022)
Journal Article
Irwin, D., & Griffiths, T. (2022). New Approaches to Medieval Anglo-Jewish History. Jewish Culture and History, 23(1), 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1080/1462169X.2022.2025660

New Approaches to Medieval Anglo-Jewry (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Irwin, D. (2022). New Approaches to Medieval Anglo-Jewry. In Special Issue: New Approaches to Medieval Anglo-Jewry, Jewish Culture and History. https://doi.org/10.1080/1462169X.2022.2025660

Profit, usury and interest in medieval Anglo-Jewish transactions (2022)
Journal Article
Irwin, D. (2022). Profit, usury and interest in medieval Anglo-Jewish transactions. Jewish Culture and History, 21(1), 21-31. https://doi.org/10.1080/1462169X.2022.2025659

This article considers the role interest in medieval Anglo-Jewish moneylending transactions. Although there is some discussion of the impact of the prohibition of charging interest in 1275, fundamentally this piece is concerned with the preceding cen... Read More about Profit, usury and interest in medieval Anglo-Jewish transactions.

The Archae System Revisited: The Records of Indebtedness to Medieval Jews (2021)
Journal Article
Irwin, D. (2021). The Archae System Revisited: The Records of Indebtedness to Medieval Jews. Medieval Encounters, 27(6), 335-359. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700674-12340111

This article examines on document acknowledging debt to Maruna, a Jewish woman, to John of Kent that was deposited in a chest in Canterbury in 1264. Using this document, the article examines what can be learned about the archae system in thirteenth-c... Read More about The Archae System Revisited: The Records of Indebtedness to Medieval Jews.

From Chirograph to Roll: The Records of Thirteenth-Century Anglo-Jewish Moneylending (2020)
Book Chapter
Irwin, D. (2020). From Chirograph to Roll: The Records of Thirteenth-Century Anglo-Jewish Moneylending. In Accounts and Accountability in Late Medieval Europe: Records, Procedures, and Socio-Political Impact (251-272). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers

This paper explores the administrative processes which resulted in the production of the scrutiny rolls prior to 1275-6. In so doing, it argues for the need to distinguish between acknowledgements of debt (products of the urban environment) and scr... Read More about From Chirograph to Roll: The Records of Thirteenth-Century Anglo-Jewish Moneylending.

The materiality of debt to Jews in England, 1194-1276 (2018)
Journal Article
Irwin, D. (2018). The materiality of debt to Jews in England, 1194-1276. #Journal not on list, 49, 56-71. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.jhs.2017v49.045

Acknowledgements of debt have long been used in the study of medieval Anglo-Jewish moneylending activities. Such studies have been primarily based upon a socio-economic approach. In contrast, this paper is based upon an analysis of the material, pala... Read More about The materiality of debt to Jews in England, 1194-1276.

From Archae to Archives (2017)
Journal Article
Irwin, D. (2017). From Archae to Archives. #Journal not on list, 52(134), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.3828/archives.2017.1

Acknowledgments of debt, made to the Jews of England between 1194 and 1290, have long been known to historians. The two largest collections of acknowledgements, stored in the Westminster Abbey Muniments and The National Archives, have been utilised i... Read More about From Archae to Archives.