The political economy of expulsion: the regulation of Jewish moneylending in medieval England

Koyama, Mark

doi:10.1007/s10602-010-9087-3

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“…This is consistent with the findings that stronger states were responsible for ending the European witch-hunts in the late seventeenth century (Levack, 1996;Johnson and Koyama, 2011) and with the argument that the rise of larger and more centralized states led to a gradual increase in bounds of religious toleration in the early modern period (Johnson and Koyama, 2012a). 44 For studies of the expulsion of Jews from England see Leonard (1891); Elman (1937);Ovrut (1977); Menache (1987); Stacey (1997Stacey ( , 2000; Mundill (1998);Katznelson (2005); Koyama (2010b). For studies of the expulsion of Jews from Spain see Kamen (1988);Gerber (1992); Roth (1995).…”

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“…15 This policy was perhaps most developed in thirteenth century England as shown by Stacey (1985Stacey ( , 1995 and as analyzed by Koyama (2010b). 16 In France this implicit agreement first appears to have been stated in 1198 when the Jews were readmitted into the Royal Domain by Philip Augustus (Moore, 2008, 41).…”

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“…16 In France this implicit agreement first appears to have been stated in 1198 when the Jews were readmitted into the Royal Domain by Philip Augustus (Moore, 2008, 41). In England it followed the massacres of Jews in York and the establishment of the Exchequer of the Jewry in 1194 (Cramer, 1940;Dobson, 2003;Brown and McCartney, 2005;Koyama, 2010b).…”

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“…This mechanism explains the actions of Henry III of England in the 1240s and 1250s who extracted tremendous amounts of revenues from the Jewish community in order to avoid calling Parliament and thus compromising with his political opponents (Stacey, 1985(Stacey, , 1987Koyama, 2010b).…”

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“…8 We find that negative supply shocks often constituted a trigger that led to expropriations and expulsions in societies that were permeated with antisemitism. Other related contributions include Barzel (1992) who provides a rational choice explanation for why rulers expropriated minority Jewish lenders and Koyama (2010b) who analyzes why the Jews were expelled from medieval England. 9…”

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From the Persecuting to the Protective State? Jewish Expulsions and Weather Shocks from 1100 to 1800

2013

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What factors caused the persecution of minorities in medieval and early modern Europe? We build a model that predicts that minority communities were more likely to be expropriated in the wake of negative income shocks. We then use panel data consisting of 785 city-level expulsions of Jews from 933 European cities between 1100 and 1800 to test the implications of the model. We use the variation in city-level temperature to test whether expulsions were associated with colder growing seasons. We find that a one standard deviation decrease in average growing season temperature in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries was associated with a one to two percentage point increase in the likelihood that a Jewish community would be expelled. Drawing on our model and on additional historical evidence we argue that the rise of state capacity was one reason why this relationship between negative income shocks and expulsions weakened after 1600.

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