The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender Volume II /

• Main Author: Mell, Julie L. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
• Subjects: Europe-History-476-1492.; Labor-History.; Social history.; History of Medieval Europe.; Labor History.; Social History.

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...