Jews in Medieval England
Gone Medieval
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The Expulsion of Jews in England
We see those moments of violence against jews in england that ultimately lead up to the expulsion of all jews i mean a statute that's in place for kind of 350 odd years that jews weren't permitted to be in england. What do you think motivated these attacks? There is certainly evidence to support the suggestion that money lending was reason that jews were targeted so in the 1190 massacre of york where 150 jewish men women and children died all of the jews die first. In 1264 when london is attacked by the forces of simon de montfort one of the leaders of that attack john fits john seeks out one of his creditors and kills him with his
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