Expelled for Profit: The Financial Holocaust of Medieval Jews

Описание: Why were Jewish communities systematically expelled from medieval England, France, Spain, and dozens of other European regions? While religion provided the excuse, the true motive was often shockingly financial.

This documentary explores the hidden economic cycle that made Jewish communities both invaluable and disposable to European monarchs. We trace how Church laws banning Christians from money lending forced Jews into the role of bankers, how kings taxed them into poverty, and how expulsion became the ultimate royal debt-cancellation scheme.

Discover the brutal financial logic behind the Edict of Expulsion of 1290 in England, the repeated banishments in France, and the Alhambra Decree of 1492 in Spain. This is the story of how state debt, asset confiscation, and ruthless profit drove one of history's longest-running tragedies.
📚 SOURCES & FURTHER READING:

The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision by Henry Kamen

The Jew in the Medieval World by Jacob Rader Marcus

Historical economic studies on medieval taxation and debt instruments

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