Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Weights and measures
- Jewish nomenclature
- Chronology
- 1 The English Exodus re-examined
- 2 Jewish settlement, society and economic activity before the Statute of the Jewry of 1275
- 3 ‘The King's most exquisite villeins’: the views of royalty, Church and society
- 4 The royal tribute
- 5 The attempted prohibition of usury and the Edwardian Experiment
- 6 The economic fortunes of provincial Jewries under Edward I
- 7 The Christian debtors
- 8 Interpreting the English Expulsion
- Appendix I Places of jewish settlement, 1262-1290
- Appendix II The Statute of the Jewry, 1275
- Appendix III Articles touching the Jewry
- Appendix IV Charles of Anjou's Edict of Expulsion, 1289
- References
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought
6 - The economic fortunes of provincial Jewries under Edward I
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Weights and measures
- Jewish nomenclature
- Chronology
- 1 The English Exodus re-examined
- 2 Jewish settlement, society and economic activity before the Statute of the Jewry of 1275
- 3 ‘The King's most exquisite villeins’: the views of royalty, Church and society
- 4 The royal tribute
- 5 The attempted prohibition of usury and the Edwardian Experiment
- 6 The economic fortunes of provincial Jewries under Edward I
- 7 The Christian debtors
- 8 Interpreting the English Expulsion
- Appendix I Places of jewish settlement, 1262-1290
- Appendix II The Statute of the Jewry, 1275
- Appendix III Articles touching the Jewry
- Appendix IV Charles of Anjou's Edict of Expulsion, 1289
- References
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought
Summary
In order to assess the effects of Edward I's experiment it is now time to turn to an examination of several Jewish communities and to see how they fared during the closing decades of Jewish presence in England. Such a study will consider the social structure and financial resources of particular Jewries and the ability of their financiers to continue to provide credit for Christians. As has been shown, Edward I drew on the financial resources of his Jewish subjects, but he apparently did not consider them to be as financially important as had earlier kings: for instance although he taxed them he never mortgaged his Jewries. Edward placed different financial pressures on his Jews. An examination of what the Jewries rendered to the Crown in toto, especially during 1278 and 1279, has already shown how the Anglo-Jewish community suffered financially and was forced to pay a massive individual fine as a result of the coin-clipping allegations. It cannot therefore be denied that the Edwardian Jewri s were generally in decline and under much economic and social pressure. Yet some seem to have fared better than others. Indeed the impact of Edward I's reforms of the Jewry are best illustrated on a local level. Such an examination will naturally confirm the view that Edward I's reign was very clearly a time of changing fortunes for the English Jew.
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- England's Jewish SolutionExperiment and Expulsion, 1262–1290, pp. 146 - 208Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998