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Licoricia of Winchester, the second wife of David of Oxford (one of the wealthiest financiers in England in the 13th ...
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When David of Oxford declared that he was divorced from his wife, Muriel, little did he know the furor it would cause...
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Asher of Lincoln had a son, David, who married a local woman, Muriel, and at some point moved to Oxford, where he liv...
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Moses of Oxford was one of the most prominent scholars and legal minds in Anglo-Jewry of the 13th century. Born in Ox...
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Just as London had a Jewish presence after the arrival of William and the Norman French, Oxford started to see a sign...
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In the City of London there is a street still called Old Jewry, currently dominated mostly by financial offices. In 2...
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The difference between different groups of Jews arts with the Jewish Diaspora, the displacement of Israelites outside...
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The first book printed in Hebrew with a date on it was printed in Italy and dated 18 February 1475. It was a commenta...
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An exegete is someone who interprets a text, especially religious texts. One of the leading Jewish exegetes in the Mi...
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"Apostasy" is the abandonment or renunciation of a religious (or political) belief. Yesterday's post on Canon 70 of t...
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After the past few entries concerning the anti-Jewish Canons of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215, we come finally t...
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The attempt to limit contact with Jews in public and keep their public authority diminished forced them to wind up be...
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Continuing our look at the final four Canons of the proceedings of the 1215 Fourth Lateran Council, we come to Canon ...
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Today we look specifically at the institutional racism against Jews established by Pope Innocent III in the Fourth La...
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Modern ideas of race and racism are largely based on skin color, but the Middle Ages saw many other factors. To quote...
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Not everyone believed that race and ethnicity were purely a result of being descended from the sons of Noah. Some fel...
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What did medieval people think about different races? How did they distinguish one ethnic group from another? This qu...
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Although Charlemagne is a famous name, and we know a lot about him, his descendants and the events of the Carolingian...
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In Saint-Omer in France there was a Benedictine abbey called the Abbey of St. Bertin, founded in 638 and existing rig...
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Our discussion on clerical celibacy, and how Emperor Justinian decreed no bishop or higher position could be married,...