The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender Volume II /

This book challenges a common historical narrative, which portrays medieval Jews as moneylenders who filled an essential economic role in Europe. Where Volume I traced the development of the narrative in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and refuted it with an in-depth study of English Jewry, V...

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Main Author: Mell, Julie L. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
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ISBN:9783319341866
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1 The Discourse of Usury and the Jewish Usurer in medieval France
  • .Chapter 2 Commercialization among the Jewish Merchants of Marseille
  • .Chapter 3 From Gift Exchange to Profit Economy reconsidered: Towards a Cultural History of Money
  • .Conclusion 'Which is the Merchant here? And which the Jew?'.