about Jews and money that reflected the anxieties surrounding the rise of impersonal credit markets.0By the close of the … invention of these abstruse credit contracts was falsely attributed to Jews, and how this story gave voice to deep-seated fears …

Introduction -- Expulsion, Jews, and Usury: Trajectories of Christian Thought and Practice -- Inventing Expulsion in …: Episcopal Evasion and Papal Inaction, 1274-1400 -- Expanding (and Impeding) Expulsion: Jews, Usury, and Canon Law, 1300 … authorities, who denounced the evils of usury as they expelled Jews from their lands. Yet Jews were not alone in supplying coin …

"In this rich transnational history, Cornelia Aust traces Jewish Ashkenazi families as they moved across Europe and …