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The shocking massacre of the Jews in York, 1190, is here re-examined in its historical context along with the circumstances and processes through which Christian and Jewish neighbours became enemies and victims.
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Introduction: The Moment and Memory of the York Massacre of 1190 - Sethina Watson
Neighbours and Victims in Twelfth-Century York: A Royal Citadel, the Citizens and the Jews of York - Sarah Rees Jones
Prelude and Postscript to the York Massacre: Attacks in East Anglia and Lincolnshire, 1190 - Joe Hillaby
William of Newburgh, Josephus and the New Titus - Nicholas Vincent
1190, William Longbeard and the Crisis of Angevin England - Alan Cooper
The Massacres of 1189-90 and the Origins of the Jewish Exchequer, 1186-1226 - Robert C. Stacey
Faith, Fealty and Jewish 'Infideles' in Twelfth-Century England - Paul Hyams
The 'archa' System and its Legacy after 1194 - Robin Mundill
Making Agreements, with or without Jews, in Medieval England and Normandy - Thomas Roche
An
Ave Maria in Hebrew: The Transmission of Hebrew Learning from Jewish to Christian Scholars in Medieval England - Eva De Visscher
The Talmudic Community of Thirteenth-Century England - Pinchas Roth and Ethan Zadoff
Notions of Jewish Service in Twelfth and Thirteenth-Century England - Anna Sapir Abulafia
Egyptian Days: From Passion to Exodus in the Representation of Twelfth-Century Jewish-Christian Relations - Heather Blurton
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De Judaea, Muta et Surda': Jewish Conversion in Gerald of Wales's
Life of Saint Remigius - Matthew M. Mesley
Dehumanizing the Jew at the Funeral of the Virgin Mary in the Thirteenth Century [
c.1170 -
c.1350] - Carlee Bradbury
Massacre and Memory: Ethics and Method in Recent Scholarship on Jewish Martyrdom - Hannah Johnson
The Future of the Jews of York - Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
Afterword: Violence, Memory and the Traumatic Middle Ages - Anthony Bale
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Sarah Rees Jones, Sethina Watson
Summary
The shocking massacre of the Jews in York, 1190, is here re-examined in its historical context along with the circumstances and processes through which Christian and Jewish neighbours became enemies and victims.
