The King and his Jews: Places and Positions of Jews in Western Monarchies
Denjean, Claude
The King and his Jews: Places and Positions of Jews in Western Monarchies - 2024.
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The article examines the evolution of the place of Jews over time within feudal and pre-modern monarchies, through some emblematic cases. Common opinion often ignores the existence of Jews in the feudal world before the legislation on “usurers” and their expulsion from the end of the twelfth century; but the Jews are present there. We will therefore leave from the South of the cartularies, from the Narbonne of the “kings of the Jews” in search of the Jews of this feudal world and their “invention” which followed the notarial expansion and the arrival of the Capetian State after the Crusade. England and the Iberian Peninsula will also be examined.
The King and his Jews: Places and Positions of Jews in Western Monarchies - 2024.
83
The article examines the evolution of the place of Jews over time within feudal and pre-modern monarchies, through some emblematic cases. Common opinion often ignores the existence of Jews in the feudal world before the legislation on “usurers” and their expulsion from the end of the twelfth century; but the Jews are present there. We will therefore leave from the South of the cartularies, from the Narbonne of the “kings of the Jews” in search of the Jews of this feudal world and their “invention” which followed the notarial expansion and the arrival of the Capetian State after the Crusade. England and the Iberian Peninsula will also be examined.
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