Abstract:Jews were invited to England by the Norman conquerors in order to introduce a credit economy or at least to help solidify it. Their number never surpassed that of several thousand and by the year 1290 they were all expelled from the country. This is the brief history outlined in Mundill's new book, which is based upon very deep study of the multitude of extant documentary evidence of Jewish financial activities and other related economic transactions. The number of these documents is more than any one scholar … Show more
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