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A Tale of Two (Lincolnshire) Jewries: Lincoln and Stamford in the Jewish Receipt Rolls (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Irwin, D. (2024, July). A Tale of Two (Lincolnshire) Jewries: Lincoln and Stamford in the Jewish Receipt Rolls. Paper presented at International Medieval Congress (IMC), Leeds University

This paper is presented as part of a series of panels that I organised on the medieval Lincoln Jewry. It examines the receipt roll evidence (TNA E 401) for Anglo-Jewry generally, before focusing on the evidence for Lincoln and Lincolnshire. It also a... Read More about A Tale of Two (Lincolnshire) Jewries: Lincoln and Stamford in the Jewish Receipt Rolls.

The Lincoln Jewry, II: Memory, Myth, and Archaeology (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Irwin, D. (2024, July). The Lincoln Jewry, II: Memory, Myth, and Archaeology. Presented at Leeds International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds

This is the second of two sessions that I have organised for the Leeds International Medieval Congress. The proceedings will be published in due course. There was a Jewish community at Lincoln by the 1150s. It was one of the leading communities of... Read More about The Lincoln Jewry, II: Memory, Myth, and Archaeology.

The Lincoln Jewry I: Financial and Legal Sources (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Irwin, D. (2024, July). The Lincoln Jewry I: Financial and Legal Sources. Presented at Leeds International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds

This is the first of two sessions that I have organised for the Leeds International Medieval Congress. The proceedings will be published in due course. There was a Jewish community at Lincoln by the 1150s. It was one of the leading communities of... Read More about The Lincoln Jewry I: Financial and Legal Sources.

Lincoln Jews Biography #1: Ursell Levy by Dr Dean Irwin (2024)
Digital Artefact
Irwin, D. (2024). Lincoln Jews Biography #1: Ursell Levy by Dr Dean Irwin

This post explores the career of Ursell Levy, a Lincoln Jew who held property in the town at the time of the Expulsion.

(Everybody needs good) Neighbours: Jews and Christians living together in medieval Kent (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Irwin, D. (2024, April). (Everybody needs good) Neighbours: Jews and Christians living together in medieval Kent. Presented at Medieval Canterbury Weekend

This is an invited paper which will see me return to the Medieval Canterbury Weekend, where I will talk about my book project. There as a Jewish presence in medieval Kent from at least the 1180s until the general expulsion of the Jews from England... Read More about (Everybody needs good) Neighbours: Jews and Christians living together in medieval Kent.

The Queen's Man: Eleanor of Castile and Cok Hagin (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Irwin, D. (2024, April). The Queen's Man: Eleanor of Castile and Cok Hagin. Paper presented at Loyalty in the Medieval World, University of Lincoln

Eleanor of Castile’s use Jewish debts to expand and consolidate her landholdings is well known. An under explored element of her activities relates to how Eleanor worked with individual Jews. Many of these relationships were formal, routine even. In... Read More about The Queen's Man: Eleanor of Castile and Cok Hagin.

In the Shadow of Lincoln? The Jews of Stamford, c.1190-1290 (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Irwin, D. (2024, April). In the Shadow of Lincoln? The Jews of Stamford, c.1190-1290. Paper presented at Abseits großer Gemeinden: Kleine jüdische Siedlungen im Mittelalter, University of Klagenfurt

This was an invited paper to participate in a conference on Small Jewish communities, with the paper being delivered virtually. The county of Lincolnshire was home to two medieval Jewish communities. One, that of Lincoln, is incredibly well docume... Read More about In the Shadow of Lincoln? The Jews of Stamford, c.1190-1290.

Gone but not Forgotten: 'Jewish' Properties in Post-Expulsion England (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Irwin, D. (2024, March). Gone but not Forgotten: 'Jewish' Properties in Post-Expulsion England. Presented at Historical Association (Leicestershire Branch), Online

This is an invited talk which will see me return (virtually) to the Leicestershire branch of the Historical Association. Following the expulsion of the Jews from England in 1290, their properties defaulted to the Crown. Although they were subseque... Read More about Gone but not Forgotten: 'Jewish' Properties in Post-Expulsion England.

England Remembers, Jews Forget: Memory of Jews and England, 1290-1541 (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Irwin, D. (2024, March). England Remembers, Jews Forget: Memory of Jews and England, 1290-1541. Paper presented at Enterprise, Engagement, Integration: Jews of Seventeenth-Century Britain and the Empire, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies

This paper was an invited presentation to at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies' conference on Jews in Britain and the Empire during the seventeenth century. Following the expulsion of the Jews from England in 1290, their properties d... Read More about England Remembers, Jews Forget: Memory of Jews and England, 1290-1541.

The Records for Lincoln’s Jews in 1290 (2024)
Digital Artefact
Irwin, D. (2024). The Records for Lincoln’s Jews in 1290

This piece provides an overview of the processes for the Expulsion, and the records that it generated at Lincoln.

Henry III and the Jews: Rex Simplex? (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Irwin, D. (2024, February). Henry III and the Jews: Rex Simplex?. Presented at Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies Seminar, University of Reading (online)

This paper was an invited presentation at the University of Reading's Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies Seminar. This paper considers Henry III's relations with, and treatment of, the Jews of medieval England. It moves away from treating Henry... Read More about Henry III and the Jews: Rex Simplex?.

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

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.