Title Christians and Jews in Angevin England : the York Massacre of 1190, narratives and contexts / edited by Sarah Rees Jones and Sethina Watson

Published York : York Medieval Press ; Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 2013 ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 351 pages) : illustrations, map Contents 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 Summary 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. This book sets it into the context of other attacks on Jews across England at the time, looks at how the narrative of events was created, and considers the circumstances and processes through which Christian and Jewish neighbours became enemies and victims Notes Many papers from a conference held in March 2010 at the University of York Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed January 30, 2015) Subject Jews -- England -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses Massacres -- England -- York -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses Pleas of the crown. HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain. HISTORY -- Medieval. Jews Massacres Pleas of the crown SUBJECT Great Britain -- History -- Angevin period, 1154-1216 -- Congresses Subject England England -- York Great Britain Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings History Form Electronic book Author Rees Jones, Sarah, editor. Watson, Sethina C. (Sethina Claire), 1972- editor. ISBN 9781782040774 1782040773 1299483895 9781299483897

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