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).

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

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.

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.