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Accounts of specific communities and themes build to a
comprehensive picture of Jews in England C11 - C13. Britain's
medieval Jewish community arrived with the Normans in 1066 and was
expelled from the country in 1290. This is the first time in many
years that its life has been comprehensively examined for a student
and general readership. Beginning with an introduction setting the
medieval British experience into its European context, the book
continues with three chapters outlining the history of the Jews'
presence and a discussion of where they settled. Further chapters
then explore themes such as their relationship with the Christian
church, Jewish women's lives, the major types of evidence used by
historians, the latest evidence emerging from archaeological
exploration, and new approaches from literary studies. The book
closes with a reappraisal of one of the best-known communities,
that at York. Drawing together the work of experts in the field,
and supported by an extensive bibliographical guide, this isa
valuable and revealing account of medieval Jewish history in
Britain. Patricia Skinner is a Wellcome Research Fellow in the
College of Arts and Humanities, Swansea University. Contributors:
ANTHONY BALE, SUZANNE BARTLETT, PAUL BRAND, BARRIE DOBSON, JOHN
EDWARDS, JOSEPH HILLABY, D.A. HINTON, ROBIN MUNDILL, ROBERT C.
STACEY.
Significant Anglo-Saxon papers, with postscripts, illustrate
advances in knowledge of life and culture of pre-Conquest England.
Thomas Northcote Toller, of the Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon
Dictionary, is one of the most influential but least known
Anglo-Saxon scholars of the early twentieth century. The Centre for
Anglo-Saxon Studies at Manchester, where Toller was the first
professor of English Language, has an annual Toller lecture,
delivered by an expert in the field of Anglo-Saxon Studies; this
volume offers a selection from these lectures, brought together for
the firsttime, and with supplementary material added by the authors
to bring them up to date. They are complemented by the 2002 Toller
Lecture, Peter Baker's study of Toller, commissioned specially for
this book; and by new examinations ofToller's life and work, and
his influence on the development of Old English lexicography. The
volume is therefore both an epitome of the best scholarship in
Anglo-Saxon studies of the last decade and a half, and a guide for
the modern reader through the major advances in our knowledge of
the life and culture of pre-Conquest England. , Contributors:
RICHARD BAILEY, PETER BAKER, DABNEY ANDERSON BANKERT, JANET BATELY,
GEORGE BROWN, ROBERTA FRANK, HELMUT GNEUSS, JOYCE HILL, DAVID A.
HINTON, MICHAEL LAPIDGE, AUDREY MEANEY, KATHERINE O'BRIEN O'KEEFFE,
JOANA PROUD, ALEXANDER RUMBLE.
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