# Talk:Edict of Expulsion

I think there is too much background information in this article, which is largely duplicated on History of the Jews in England and also History of the Jews in England (1066–1290). Some of the points are just too general (eg, explaining feudalism) but overall it seems bad practice to have three articles making broadly the same points in different ways, especially when they are all neatly organised by a navigation table. I'm hoping editors will be OK with some pruning and rationalisation. Jim Killock (talk) 11:33, 29 December 2023 (UTC)

I've done most of the pruning but will next come back with references, and then work on improving the main text Jim Killock (talk) 13:39, 31 December 2023 (UTC)

An editor via IP edits has twice removed the sentence: The expulsion had the lasting effect of embedding antisemitism into English culture from the lead. In the body of the article the following is found, in "Significance":

The expulsion had a lasting effect on medieval and early-modern English culture. Antisemitic narratives became embedded in the idea of England as unique because it had no Jews. Jews became an easy target of literature and plays, and tropes such as child sacrifice and host desecration persisted. Jews began to settle in England after 1656, and formal equality was achieved by 1858. According to medieval historian Colin Richmond, English antisemitism left a legacy of neglect of this topic in English historical research as late as the 1990s. The story of Little Saint Hugh was repeated as fact in local guidebooks in Lincoln in the 1920s, and a private school was named after Hugh around the same time. The logo of the school, which referenced the story, was altered in 2020.
I think the lead summary is justified from that, but I am going to qualify it as "especially in the medieval and early modern period." The sources, especially Richmond as cited argue the legacy continues into the C20th and this is also reflected above. I do not think there is a justification for removing the statement. 
As per WP:STATUSQUO the text should remain on page while this is resolved here. Jim Killock (talk) 21:47, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

I have also clarified how the antisemitic beliefs related to the expulsion, being that there was a belief that England was unique because it had no Jews, and that the English had superceded the Jews as the chosen people. Hopefully that is clearer now. Jim Killock (talk) 17:41, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

Abrahams, B. L., The Expulsion of the Jews from England in 1290 (Oxford, 1895).
Abrahams, B. L., 'The Condition of the Jews of England at the Time of their Expulsion in 1290', Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England 2 (1896), 76-105.
Ashbee, J., 'The Tower of London and the Jewish expulsion of 1290', Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society 55 (2004), 35-37. https://www.lamas.org.uk/archives/23-transactions/129-transactions-vol55.html
Brand, P., 'New Light on the Expulsion of the Jewish Community from England in 1290', RMS 2014. https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/84583/1/RMS-2014-07_P._Brand%2C_New_Light_on_the_Expulsion_of_the_Jewish_Community_from_England_in_1290.pdf
Dobson, R. B., The Jewish Communities of Medieval England: The Collected Essays of R.B. Dobson, (Borthwick Texts and Studies 39: York, 2010).
Dorin, R., 'No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe', Histories of Economic Life 36 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/csae030
Elman, P., 'The Economic Causes of the Expulsion of the Jews in 1290', Economic History Review 7:2 (1937), 145-54.
Leonard, G. H., 'The Expulsion of the Jews by Edward I', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 2nd ser. 5 (1891), 103-45.
Mundill, R., 'Banishment from the Edge of the World: The Jewish Experience of Expulsion from England in 1290', in Expulsion and Diaspora Formation: Religious and Ethnic Identities in Flux from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century, ed. J. V. Tolan (Turnhout, 2015), 85-101, https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RELMIN-EB.5.109161
Ovrut, B. D., 'Edward I and the Expulsion of the Jews', Jewish Quarterly Review 67:4 (1977), 224-235. https://www.sfu.ca/~poitras/jqr_ed-I+expulsion_77.pdf http://www.jstor.org/stable/1454572 SerialNumber54129 15:54, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
Thanks - several of these look interesting., esp  Mundill 2015, Brand 2014, Ashbee 2004, Dorin 2023. Jim Killock (talk) 10:24, 26 August 2024 (UTC)