TY - BOOK ID - 32076442 TI - The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender : Volume II PY - 2018 SN - 3319341863 3319341855 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Moneylenders KW - Middle Ages KW - Jews in public life KW - Jews KW - Historiography. KW - History. KW - Medievalists KW - Lenders, Money KW - Money lenders KW - Capitalists and financiers KW - Europe-History-476-1492. KW - Labor-History. KW - Social history. KW - History of Medieval Europe. KW - Labor History. KW - Social History. KW - Descriptive sociology KW - Social conditions KW - Social history KW - History KW - Sociology KW - Europe—History—476-1492. KW - Labor—History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32076442 AB - This book challenges a common historical narrative, which portrays medieval Jews as moneylenders who filled an essential economic role in Europe. Where Volume I traced the development of the narrative in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and refuted it with an in-depth study of English Jewry, Volume II explores the significance of dissolving the Jewish narrative for European history. It extends the study from England to northern France, the Mediterranean, and central Europe and deploys the methodologies of legal, cultural, and religious history alongside economic history. Each chapter offers a novel interpretation of key topics, such as the Christian usury campaign, the commercial revolution, and gift economy / profit economy, to demonstrate how the revision of Jewish history leads to new insights in European history. . ER -