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No Return - Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe (Hardcover)
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No Return - Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe (Hardcover)
Series: Histories of Economic Life
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A groundbreaking new history of the shared legacy of expulsion
among Jews and Christian moneylenders in late medieval Europe
Beginning in the twelfth century, Jewish moneylenders increasingly
found themselves in the crosshairs of European authorities, who
denounced the evils of usury as they expelled Jews from their
lands. Yet Jews were not alone in supplying coin and credit to
needy borrowers. Across much of Western Europe, foreign Christians
likewise engaged in professional moneylending, and they too faced
repeated threats of expulsion from the communities in which they
settled. No Return examines how mass expulsion became a pervasive
feature of European law and politics-with tragic consequences that
have reverberated down to the present. Drawing on unpublished
archival evidence ranging from fiscal ledgers and legal opinions to
sermons and student notebooks, Rowan Dorin traces how an
association between usury and expulsion entrenched itself in Latin
Christendom from the twelfth century onward. Showing how ideas and
practices of expulsion were imitated and repurposed in different
contexts, he offers a provocative reconsideration of the dynamics
of persecution in late medieval society. Uncovering the protean and
contagious nature of expulsion, No Return is a panoramic work of
history that offers new perspectives on Jewish-Christian relations,
the circulation of norms and ideas in the age before print, and the
intersection of law, religion, and economic life in premodern
Europe.
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