Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender

Julie L. Mell is Associate Professor of History at North Carolina State University, USA where she teaches courses in medieval history and Jewish history. She has published in Jewish Historical Studies, Jewish History, and the Wiener Jahrbuch für Jüdische Geschichte Kultur und Museumswesen, and received fellowships from the Yad HaNadiv, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, and the American Association of University Women.

• Chapter 1 The Discourse of Usury and the Jewish Usurer in medieval France.- .Chapter 2 Commercialization among the Jewish Merchants of Marseille.- .Chapter 3 From Gift Exchange to Profit Economy reconsidered: Towards a Cultural History of Money.- .Conclusion ‘Which is the Merchant here? And which the Jew?’.

“This book is a seriously adept piece of scholarship which I suspect (and hope) will become an instant classic for students of medieval Jews in general and of medieval Anglo-Jewry specifically.” (Towards a Bibliography of Medieval Anglo-Jewry, anglo-jewishbibliography.blogspot.de, January, 2017)