New Approaches to Medieval Anglo-Jewry
(2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
All Outputs (49)
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
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.2022.2025659This 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/10.1163/15700674-12340111This 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
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.2017v49.045Acknowledgements 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.2017.1Acknowledgments 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.
Learning to Play Well with Others? Jews and Christians as Neighbours in Medieval English Towns
Presentation / Conference Contribution
There was a Jewish presence in medieval England from shortly after the Norman Conquest (1066) until the general expulsion of the Jews from England in 1290. For much of this period, Jews and Christians lived together in towns across England. This talk... Read More about Learning to Play Well with Others? Jews and Christians as Neighbours in Medieval English Towns.
Eleanor of Provence & Medieval Gloucester
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Eleanor of Provence, Queen of England, wife of Henry III and mother of Edward I, often visited medieval Gloucester and after Henry’s death was responsible for the expulsion of Gloucester’s Jewish community from the city in the dramatic events of Janu... Read More about Eleanor of Provence & Medieval Gloucester.