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1 Online-Ressource (xx, 351 pages)
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9781782040774
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The mass suicide and murder of the men, women and children of the Jewish community in York on 16 March 1190 is one of the most scarring events in the history of Anglo-Judaism, and an aspect of England's medieval past which is widely remembered around the world. However, the York massacre was in fact only one of a series of attacks on communities of Jews across England in 1189-90; they were violent expressions of wider new constructs of the nature of Christian and Jewish communities, and the targeted outcries of local townspeople, whose emerging urban politics were enmeshed within the swiftly developing structures of royal government. This new collection considers the massacre as central to the narrative of English and Jewish history around 1200. Its chapters broaden the contexts within which the narrative is usually considered and explore how a narrative of events in 1190 was built up, both at the time and in following years. They also focus on two main strands: the role of narrative in shaping events and their subsequent perception; and the degree of 'convivencia' between Jews and Christians and consideration of the circumstances and processes through which neighbours became enemies and victims. Sarah Rees Jones is Senior Lecturer in History, Sethina Watson Lecturer, at the University of York. Contributors: Sethina Watson, Sarah Rees Jones, Joe Hillaby, Nicholas Vincent, Alan Cooper, Robert C. Stacey, Paul Hyams, Robin R. Mundill, Thomas Roche, Eva de Visscher, Pinchas Roth, Ethan Zadoff, Anna Sapir Abulafia, Heather Blurton, Matthew Mesley, Carlee A. Bradbury, Hannah Johnson, Jeffrey J. Cohen, Anthony Bale
Content:
Introduction: The Moment and Memory of the York Massacre of 1190 -- Part I: The Events of March 1190 -- 1. Neighbours and Victims in Twelfth-Century York: a Royal Citadel, the Citizens and the Jews of York -- 2. Prelude and Postscript to the York Massacre: Attacks in East Anglia and Lincolnshire, 1190 -- 3. William of Newburgh, Josephus and the New Titus -- 4. 1190, William Longbeard and the Crisis of Angevin England -- 5. The Massacres of 1189-90 and the Origins of the Jewish Exchequer, 1186-1226 -- Part II: Jews among Christians in Medieval England -- 6. Faith, Fealty and Jewish 'infideles' in Twelfth-Century England -- 7. The 'Archa' System and its Legacy after 1194 -- 8. Making agreements, with or without Jews, in Medieval England and Normandy -- 9. An Ave Maria in Hebrew: the Transmission of Hebrew Learning from Jewish to Christian Scholars in Medieval England -- 10. The Talmudic Community of Thirteenth-Century England -- 11. Notions of Jewish Service in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century England -- Part III: Representations -- 12. Egyptian Days: From Passion to Exodus in the Representation of Twelfth-Century Jewish-Christian Relations -- 13. 'De Judaea, muta et surda': Jewish Conversion in Gerald of Wales's Life of Saint Remigius -- 14. Dehumanizing the Jew at the Funeral of the Virgin Mary in the Thirteenth Century (c. 1170-c. 1350) -- 15. Massacre and Memory: Ethics and Method in Recent Scholarship on Jewish Martyrdom --16. The Future of the Jews of York -- Afterword: Violence, Memory and the Traumatic Middle Ages
Note:
Many papers from a conference held in March 2010 at the University of York
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781903153444
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781903153444
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English
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