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The Palgrave dictionary of medieval Anglo-Jewish history / edited by Joe Hillaby and Caroline Hillaby.
LIBRA DS135.E5 P35 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--England--History--To 1500--Dictionaries.
- Jews.
- Jews--England--Social conditions--To 1500--Dictionaries.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc--England--History--To 1500--Dictionaries.
- Ethnic relations.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.
- History.
- Social conditions.
- England--Ethnic relations--Dictionaries.
- England.
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 447 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, [2013]
- Summary:
- Published to celebrate the 120th anniversary of the foundation of the Jewish Historical Society of England, this is no conventional dictionary. For two centuries an extensive Jewish community played an important role in English medieval history. The book opens up a society for which we have sources 'many hundreds of times richer than those for France' (Robert Chazan). Nearly 30 self-governing communities extended across the country, from York to Exeter, Hereford to Canterbury. Vestiges of the medieval Jewry remain in street names; sites of Jewish houses, synagogues and cemeteries; and archaeological sites and artefacts. The 55 illustrations include maps, town plans and tables. Thirty biographic entries examine leading members of communities; eight include family trees, in six cases extending over at least five generations. A wide range of entries of general interest provide details on matters as diverse as Bezant, Community, Herb Gardens, Laving Stone, Libraries and Books, Mikva'ot, Ritual Child Murder, Synagogues, Treasure, Usury and Women. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The English Medieval Jewry, c.1075-1290: An Introduction 1
- Dictionary of Medieval Anglo-Jewish History 17
- Statutory and other Key Documents 17
- Topographical, Biographical and General Entries 39.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0230278167
- 9780230278165
- OCLC:
- 820665699
- Publisher Number:
- 99955160896
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