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- Introduction
- Introduction- Economic Flexibility
- Primary Texts
- Business Dealings among Jews Eleventh-Century Responsum
- Business Arrangement between Jew and Bishop Eleventh-Century Responsum from Sefer ha-Dinim
- Business Dealings between Jew and Non-Jew Eleventh-Century Responsum
- Business Dealings between Jew and Non-Jew Eleventh-Century Responsum
- Early Jewish Money Lending, An Anonymous Responsum
- Dispute between a Jew and a Prior over Loan, 1220, Plea Rolls of the Exchequer of the Jews
- Dispute between a Jew and a Prior over Loan, 1244, Plea Rolls of the Exchequer of the Jews
- Acknowledgement of Loan Payment, 1266, Plea Rolls of the Exchequer of the Jews
- Secondary Literature
- Y. Assis, Jewish Economy in the Medieval Crown of Aragon 1213- 1327- Money and Power (Leiden- E. J. Brill, 1997).
- M. Meyerson, A Jewish Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Spain (Princeton- Princeton University Press, 2004), 176-209.
- M. Meyerson, Jews in an Iberian Kingdom- Society, Economy, and Politics in Morvedre, 1248-1391 (Leiden- Brill, 2004).
- A. Toaff, Love, Work & Death- Jewish Life in Medieval Umbria (London- Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1998), 195-253.
- M. Toch, “Between Impotence and Power- The Jews in the Economy and Polity of Medieval Europe,” Poteri economici e poteri politici secc. XIII-XVIII (1999) 221-243 2003 [Reprinted in his Peasants and Jews in Medieval Germany].
- Videos
- How did Jews contribute to the European economy? Prof. Robert Chazan.
- Moneylenders: How did art form public opinion in the medieval period? Abby Kornfeld. Produced by Down Low Pictures for COJS.