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Jews in the Age of John, c. 1210-1222 (2024)
Journal Article
Irwin, D. (in press). Jews in the Age of John, c. 1210-1222. #Journal not on list, 183(3-4),

This paper situates the Jews into the broader context of King John's reign. Instead of treating them as a separate group, it argues that, broadly speaking, the experience of the Jews not dissimilar to that of many other groups. This builds upon work... Read More about Jews in the Age of John, c. 1210-1222.

An annus horribilis for Anglo-Jewry (2024)
Journal Article
Irwin, D. (in press). An annus horribilis for Anglo-Jewry. History today, 75(2),

As part of the 750th anniversary of the expulsions of Jews from Eleanor of Provence's dower towns (Jan. 1275) and the Statute of the Jewry (Oct. 1275), this piece explores the experience of Anglo-Jewry in the 12-15 months following Edward I's return... Read More about An annus horribilis for Anglo-Jewry.

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.

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.