@polishXcellence @ettingermentum This is not actually true https://t.co/f4ZrWbFJbH
@polishXcellence Religious sanctions on usury did not actually prevent Christians from money lending and most money lenders throughout the medieval period were Christian, not Jewish. Overwhelming majority of European Jews just farmed. Both volumes of this
@ytnessisdeath Not exactly what you're looking for but the discussion of the Brenner debate in volume one of this book(The best academic monograph of the 2010s in my opinion)is well worth a read. I know some people who are going to put out more on Brenner
@sjh_24 @carol_stirling @DrJinRussell I didn't get my head around Jesus. I haven't read The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Money Lender though I'm impressed by the likely scholarship of this. Just the fact of writing better history and a fuller case against a