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• Introduction
• Expulsion, Jews, and Usury: Trajectories of Christian Thought and Practice
• Inventing Expulsion in England, 1154-1272
• Inventing Expulsion in France, 1144-1270
• Canonizing Expulsion: The Second Council of Lyon, 1274
• Disseminating Expulsion: Synods, Summas, and Sermons
• Emulating Expulsion: England and France, 1274-1306
• Ignoring Expulsion: Episcopal Evasion and Papal Inaction, 1274-1400
• Expanding (and Impeding) Expulsion: Jews, Usury, and Canon Law, 1300-1492
• Conclusion

A groundbreaking new history of the shared legacy of expulsion among Jews and Christian moneylenders in late medieval Europe Beginning in the twelfth century, Jewish moneylenders increasingly found themselves in the crosshairs of European authorities, who denounced the evils of usury as they expelled Jews from their lands. Yet Jews were not alone in supplying coin and credit to needy borrowers. Across much of Western Europe, foreign Christians likewise engaged in professional moneylending, and they too faced repeated threats of expulsion from the communities in which they settled. No Return examines how mass expulsion became a pervasive feature of European law and politics-with tragic consequences that have reverberated down to the present. Drawing on unpublished archival evidence ranging from fiscal ledgers and legal opinions to sermons and student notebooks, Rowan Dorin traces how an association between usury and expulsion entrenched itself in Latin Christendom from the twelfth century onward. Showing how ideas and practices of expulsion were imitated and repurposed in different contexts, he offers a provocative reconsideration of the dynamics of persecution in late medieval society. Uncovering the protean and contagious nature of expulsion, No Return is a panoramic work of history that offers new perspectives on Jewish-Christian relations, the circulation of norms and ideas in the age before print, and the intersection of law, religion, and economic life in premodern Europe.
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• Introduction
• Expulsion, Jews, and usury : trajectories of Christian thought and practice
• Inventing expulsion in England, 1154-1272
• Inventing expulsion in France, 1144-1270
• Canonizing expulsion : the Second Council of Lyon, 1274
• Disseminating expulsion : synods, summas, and sermons
• Emulating expulsion : England and France, 1274-1306
• Ignoring expulsion : episcopal evasion and papal inaction, 1274-1400
• Expanding (and impeding) expulsion : Jews, usury, and canon law, 1300-1492
• Conclusion

"Beginning in the twelfth century, Jewish moneylenders increasingly found themselves in the crosshairs of European authorities, who denounced the evils of usury as they expelled Jews from their lands. Yet Jews were not alone in supplying coin and credit to needy borrowers. Across much of Western Europe, foreign Christians likewise engaged in professional moneylending, and they too faced repeated threats of expulsion from the communities in which they settled. No Return examines how mass expulsion became a pervasive feature of European law and politics-with tragic consequences that have reverberated down to the present. Drawing on unpublished archival evidence ranging from fiscal ledgers and legal opinions to sermons and student notebooks, Rowan Dorin traces how an association between usury and expulsion entrenched itself in Latin Christendom from the twelfth century onward. Showing how ideas and practices of expulsion were imitated and repurposed in different contexts, he offers a provocative reconsideration of the dynamics of persecution in late medieval society. Uncovering the protean and contagious nature of expulsion, No Return is a panoramic work of history that offers new perspectives on Jewish-Christian relations, the circulation of norms and ideas in the age before print, and the intersection of law, religion, and economic life in premodern Europe"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction
• Expulsion, Jews, and Usury: Trajectories of Christian Thought and Practice
• Inventing Expulsion in England, 1154-1272
• Inventing Expulsion in France, 1144-1270
• Canonizing Expulsion: The Second Council of Lyon, 1274
• Disseminating Expulsion: Synods, Summas, and Sermons
• Emulating Expulsion: England and France, 1274-1306
• Ignoring Expulsion: Episcopal Evasion and Papal Inaction, 1274-1400
• Expanding (and Impeding) Expulsion: Jews, Usury, and Canon Law, 1300-1492
• Conclusion

A groundbreaking new history of the shared legacy of expulsion among Jews and Christian moneylenders in late medieval Europe Beginning in the twelfth century, Jewish moneylenders increasingly found themselves in the crosshairs of European authorities, who denounced the evils of usury as they expelled Jews from their lands. Yet Jews were not alone in supplying coin and credit to needy borrowers. Across much of Western Europe, foreign Christians likewise engaged in professional moneylending, and they too faced repeated threats of expulsion from the communities in which they settled. No Return examines how mass expulsion became a pervasive feature of European law and politics-with tragic consequences that have reverberated down to the present. Drawing on unpublished archival evidence ranging from fiscal ledgers and legal opinions to sermons and student notebooks, Rowan Dorin traces how an association between usury and expulsion entrenched itself in Latin Christendom from the twelfth century onward. Showing how ideas and practices of expulsion were imitated and repurposed in different contexts, he offers a provocative reconsideration of the dynamics of persecution in late medieval society. Uncovering the protean and contagious nature of expulsion, No Return is a panoramic work of history that offers new perspectives on Jewish-Christian relations, the circulation of norms and ideas in the age before print, and the intersection of law, religion, and economic life in premodern Europe.
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• Contents: Preface
• Introduction, CA(c)cile Morrisson
• Part I Economic Thought: God and Mammon: credit, trade, profit and the canonists
• The Church, economic thought and economic practice
• Social justice: exchange and prosperity in Byzantium
• Nummus parit nummos: la (TM)usurier, le jurist at le philosophe A Byzance
• Economic concerns and attitudes of the intellectuals of Thessalonike
• Le dA(c)bat sur les droits du fisc et les droits rA(c)galiens au dA(c)but du 14e siAcle. Part II Economic Life: On individuals, aggregates and mute social groups
• Priests and bishops in the Byzantine countryside, 13th-14th centuries
• The peasant as donor (13th-14th centuries)
• A history of mills and monks: the case of the mill of Chantax (with Dieter Simon)
• The Byzantine village (5th-14th century)
• The Byzantine city: parasitic or productive?
• Index.
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Angeliki Laiou (1941-2008), one of the leading Byzantinists of her generation, broke new ground in the study of the social and economic history of the Byzantine Empire. Economic Thought and Economic Life in Byzantium, the last of three volumes to be published posthumously in the Variorum Collected Studies Series, brings together twelve articles that reflect her perennial concern with the relationship of theory and practice in historical contexts. Two of these are translated from Greek and German, respectively, and another is here published for the first time. The six articles in the first part explore several lively and wide-ranging debates over economic concepts and practices in late medieval Byzantium, touching on such concerns as usury, regalian rights, and the proper functioning of the market. The articles in the second part examine the nature and role of cities, villages, and the countryside in Byzantium, together with the rich and varied experiences of their inhabitants.
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• Contents: Preface, CA(c)cile Morrisson and Rowan Dorin
• Introduction, David Jacoby
• Part I Byzantium and the Other: The foreigner and the stranger in 12th-century Byzantium: means of propitiation and acculturation
• L'A(c)tranger de passage et l'A(c)tranger privilA(c)giA(c) A Byzance, XIe - XIIe siAcles
• Institutional mechanisms of integration. Part II Byzantium and the Crusades: Byzantium and the crusades in the 12th century: why was the 4th Crusade late in coming?
• On just war in Byzantium
• The just war of eastern Christians and the Holy War of the crusaders
• The many faces of medieval colonization. Part III Long Distance Trade and Relations: Byzantine trade with Christians and Muslims and the crusades
• Venice as a centre of trade and of artistic production in the 13th century
• Italy and the Italians in the political geography of the Byzantines (14th century)
• Monopoly and privilege: the Byzantine reaction to the Genoese presence in the Black Sea
• Monopoly and privileged free trade in the Eastern Mediterranean (8th-14th century)
• Regional networks in the Balkans in the middle and late Byzantine period
• Byzantium and the neighboring powers: small-state policies and complexities
• Index.
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Angeliki Laiou (1941-2008), one of the leading Byzantinists of her generation, broke new ground in the study of the social and economic history of the Byzantine Empire. Byzantium and the Other: Relations and Exchanges, the second of three volumes to be published posthumously in the Variorum Collected Studies Series, brings together fourteen articles published between 1982 and 2012 that reflect her enduring interest in Byzantium's political, ideological, and commercial relations with its neighbours. The first three articles examine Byzantine attitudes and institutional responses to foreigners and strangers within the empire, while the next four concern Byzantium's response to the Crusades and, more generally, to questions of justice in the spheres of conflict and colonisation. The final seven articles investigate Byzantium's political and commercial relations with other regional and Mediterranean powers; particular emphasis is placed on Venice and Genoa, whose increasing involvement in the Byzantine economy so marked the final centuries of the empire's existence.
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• Preface
• Introduction, Joelle Beaucamp
• Part I Women in Byzantine Law and Practice: Sex, consent and coercion in Byzantium
• Marriage prohibitions, marriage strategies and the dowry in 13th-century Byzantium
• The evolution of the status of women in marriage and family law
• Women in the marketplace of Constantinople, 10th - 14th centuries
• Family structure and the transmission of property.
• Part II Law, Politics and Society: Law, justice and the Byzantine historians: 9th - 12th centuries
• Peasant rebellion: notes on its vocabulary and typology
• The Emperor's word: chrysobulls, oaths and synallagmatic relations in Byzantium (11th - 12th centuries)
• Index.
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Angeliki Laiou (1941-2008), one of the leading Byzantinists of her generation, broke new ground in the study of the social and economic history of the Byzantine Empire. "Women, Family and Society in Byzantium", the first of three volumes to be published posthumously in the "Variorum Collected Studies Series", brings together eight articles published between 1993 and 2009. Demonstrating Professor Laiou's characteristic attention to the relationship between ideology and social practice, the first five articles concern the status of women as evidenced through legal, narrative, hagiographical, and archival sources, while the final three investigate conceptions of law and justice, the vocabulary and typology of peasant rebellions, and the form and evolution of political agreements in Byzantine society.
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"Signs of War in Old English Poetry" demonstrates how Anglo-Saxon poets conceived of "war" as a distinct category of conflict with its own particular morality. As devised in Anglo-Saxon historiography, hagiography, law, and political philosophy, war was large in scale, the prerogative of a Christian king, served the interests of a "people" (þeod), and was the most dramatic earthly working of God's will by human agents. This idea of war approximates the classical Roman bellum publicum and resembles common present-day perceptions of what war is or ought to be. I argue that representing war was an issue for Anglo-Saxon poets composing vernacular poetry in the traditional "heroic" style, which idealized and aestheticized the "heroic" violence that sustained, through plunder, a migration-era lord and his personal retinue, or comitatus. This violence is small in scale, the prerogative of any ambitious warrior, and principally serves the interests of the few men comprising the comitatus. Poets not only recognized but highlighted tensions between the moral limits of Christian warfare and the idealization of "heroic violence." I argue that this discord is a hallmark of Old English heroic poetry compared to other early medieval vernacular traditions. My first two chapters focus on Beowulf and participate in a generations-long argument about the moral status of heroism in the poem. My primary intervention is to use the model outlined above to deconstruct the poem's notion of violence, which has traditionally been discussed monolithically. I argue the conceptual complexity of violence in Beowulf is obscured by lexical ambiguity—Old English has no singular word corresponding to the modern English word "war, " though Anglo-Saxons called it bellum in Latin. I explain the effect of this undiscussed semantic quirk on criticism of Beowulf while showing how the poem does differentiate between heroic violence and war, and how that difference enables a structural strategy whereby the poem devalues its own signs, not to ultimately condemn heroism, but to confine its value to an artificial space. My third chapter argues that the Exeter Book riddles whose solutions are weapons use personification to tally an account of the human cost of war that is radical among early medieval poetry for reckoning that cost according to the bodily and psychological toll exacted from its participants. This chapter engages with critical discussions of the formal possibilities of the riddle genre itself by showing how the transference of psychology between the personified weapons (the riddles' solutions) and their wielders (the "metaphorical focus") formally objectify warrior subjectivity to create vivid lyrical expressions of pain, regret, and hardship. My final chapter uses my theories about war and representation to interpret the historical sense of The Battle of Maldon. The expanded military responsibility of tenth and eleventh century "Kings of England" demanded a clarified ethic of war; growing monastic power and literary production helped define it. These poems stage contemporary events as trials of the capacity of the new ethic to accommodate both traditional images of heroic violence and an expanded religious sense.

Epicureanism and the Death of the Soul in the High Middle Ages demonstrates that from the twelfth to the fourteenth century discussion and debates about the death of the human soul took place from the highest to the lowest social levels of Latin Christendom. The evidence examined reveals that the discussion tended to focus upon the moral consequences of holding that the human soul died with the body. Epicurus's famed mortalism, coupled with his ethic based on pleasure made him and his philosophy a touchstone within medieval conversations about these issues. In many sources, a belief that affirming the death of the soul would lead to amoral behavior on the part of mortalists is on display, as is the fear that the presence of contemporary mortalists—often branded "Epicureans"—would threaten key aspects of medieval society, such as politics, the church, and the universities. The sources analyzed exhibit a fear that new social, institutional, and economic developments taking place from the twelfth to the fourteenth century were leading their contemporaries to abandon the Christian faith and embrace a "worldly" and/or "carnal" life. The sources further show that Dante's decision to condemn Epicurus and all those who embraced his teachings in his Inferno X triggered a debate among early humanists that led to a renewed interest in the ancient Greek philosopher