The myth of the medieval Jewish moneylender. Volume I ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Julie L. Mell.
• Authors: Mell, Julie
• Contents: ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Abbreviations""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Tables""; ""Chapter 1: Introduction: Jousting with Windmills""; ""Notes""; ""Part ONE: Modern History and Medieval Narratives""; ""Chapter 2: The Economic Function of the Jews: A Nineteenth-Century Story""; ""Wissenschaft des Judentums and the Origins of the German-Liberal Tradition of Jewish Economic History""; ""Jewish Commercialism in Mid-Nineteenth-­Century Germany""; ""Wilhelm Roscher and the Liberal Legacy: Jewish Economic History in German Scholarship of the 1860s and 1870s"" ""The Younger Historical School and the Theory of Economic Stages""""Capitalism and the Jews in the Sociologists Werner Sombart and Max Weber""; ""Sombartâ#x80;#x99;s The Jews and Modern Capitalism""; ""Weberâ#x80;#x99;s Ancient Judaism""; ""Afterword: Salo Baron""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 3: Twentieth-Century Trajectories in European Economic History and the â#x80;#x9C;Economic Function of the Jewsâ#x80;#x9D;""; ""â#x80;#x9C;The Economic Function of the Jewsâ#x80;#x9D; and the Holocaust""; ""Michael Postan, Robert Lopez, and Medieval Capitalism"" ""Postwar Currents in Britain: â#x80;#x9C;Neo-ÂƯMalthusians, â#x80;#x9D; Marxists, and Commercialization""""Neo-Malthusians""; ""The Marxists and Brenner Debate""; ""Commercialization""; ""Beyond Money, Market, and Trade: Karl Polanyi and The Great Transformation""; ""From Gift Economy to Profit Economy""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Part TWO: Some Facts: Merry Old England""; ""Chapter 4: â#x80;#x9C;Rich as a Jewâ#x80;#x9D;? Wealth and Lending among Anglo-Jews""; ""England as a Case Study""; ""Taxation in Anglo-Norman England""; ""Lay Subsidies: Methods and Limits of Analysis"" ""Tallage Rolls: Methods and Limits for Jewish History""""Four Jewish Tallages, 1194â#x80;#x93;1276""; ""The Northampton Donum (1194)""; ""Tallages of the 1220s""; ""The Third and the Worcester Tallage (c. 1240)""; ""The Great Tallage (c. 1275)""; ""Distribution of Wealth""; ""Comparison with Urban Population""; ""Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Moneylending: Christian and Jewish""; ""A Jewish Majority without Loans: Non-­Lenders versus Lenders""; ""Professional Lender versus Occasional Investor""; ""Jewish Moneylending c. 1240""; ""Notes"" ""Chapter 5: An Economic Function for the Crown? On Tallage, Taxation, and the Legal Status of the Jews""""Jewish Tallage in the Context of Anglo-ÂƯNorman Taxation""; ""Origin and Development of Tallage as an Urban Tax""; ""Tallage and Subsidies as Two Concurrent Forms of Experimentation""; ""Receipt Roll Evidence for Real Revenue""; ""Jewish Tallage in the Context of Royal Taxation""; ""Frequency of Tallage""; ""Administrative Machinery for Tallage""; ""The Exchequer of the Jews and the Birth of Common Law""
• Publisher Details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 940.04924; History; Jews -- Europe -- History; Jews in public life -- Europe -- History; Moneylenders -- History; HISTORY -- Europe -- Western; Jews; Jews in public life; Moneylenders; Political Science -- Labor & Industrial Relations; History -- Social History; Social & cultural history; Social history; History -- Europe -- General; European history; Europe; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137397782; 1137397780; 1137397764; 9781137397768
• Related ISBNs: 9781137397768; 1137397764
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