The shocking massacre of the Jews in York, 1190, is here re-examined in its historical context along with the circumstances and processes through which Christian and Jewish neighbours became enemies and victims.The mass suicide and murder of the men, women and children of the Jewish community in York on 16 March 1190 is one of the most scarring events in the history of Anglo-Judaism, and an aspect of England's medieval past which is widely remembered around the world. However, the York massacre was in fact only one of a series of attacks on communities of Jews across England in 1189-90; they were violent expressions of wider new constructs of the nature of Christian and Jewish communities, and the targeted outcries of local townspeople, whose emerging urban politics were enmeshed within the swiftly developing structures of royal government. This new collection considers the massacreas central to the narrative of English and Jewish history around 1200. Its chapters broaden the contexts within which the narrative is usually considered and explore how a narrative of events in 1190 was built up, both at the timeand in following years. They also focus on two main strands: the role of narrative in shaping events and their subsequent perception; and the degree of convivencia between Jews and Christians and consideration of the circumstances and processes through which neighbours became enemies and victims. Sarah Rees Jones is Senior Lecturer in History, Sethina Watson Lecturer, at the University of York. Contributors: Sethina Watson, Sarah Rees Jones, Joe Hillaby, Nicholas Vincent, Alan Cooper, Robert C. Stacey, Paul Hyams, Robin R. Mundill, Thomas Roche, Eva de Visscher, Pinchas Roth, Ethan Zadoff, Anna Sapir Abulafia, Heather Blurton, Matthew Mesley, Carlee A.Bradbury, Hannah Johnson, Jeffrey J. Cohen, Anthony Bale

Introduction: The Moment and Memory of the York Massacre of 1190 - Sethina WatsonNeighbours and Victims in Twelfth-Century York: A Royal Citadel, the Citizens and the Jews of York - Sarah Rees JonesPrelude and Postscript to the York Massacre: Attacks in East Anglia and Lincolnshire, 1190 - Joe HillabyWilliam of Newburgh, Josephus and the New Titus - Nicholas Vincent1190, William Longbeard and the Crisis of Angevin England - Alan CooperThe Massacres of 1189-90 and the Origins of the Jewish Exchequer, 1186-1226 - Robert C. StaceyFaith, Fealty and Jewish 'Infideles' in Twelfth-Century England - Paul HyamsThe 'archa' System and its Legacy after 1194 - Robin MundillMaking Agreements, with or without Jews, in Medieval England and Normandy - Thomas RocheAn Ave Maria in Hebrew: The Transmission of Hebrew Learning from Jewish to Christian Scholars in Medieval England - Eva De VisscherThe Talmudic Community of Thirteenth-Century England - Pinchas Roth and Ethan ZadoffNotions of Jewish Service in Twelfth and Thirteenth-Century England - Anna Sapir AbulafiaEgyptian Days: From Passion to Exodus in the Representation of Twelfth-Century Jewish-Christian Relations - Heather Blurton'De Judaea, Muta et Surda': Jewish Conversion in Gerald of Wales's Life of Saint Remigius - Matthew M. MesleyDehumanizing the Jew at the Funeral of the Virgin Mary in the Thirteenth Century [c.1170 - c.1350] - Carlee BradburyMassacre and Memory: Ethics and Method in Recent Scholarship on Jewish Martyrdom - Hannah JohnsonThe Future of the Jews of York - Jeffrey Jerome CohenAfterword: Violence, Memory and the Traumatic Middle Ages - Anthony BaleBibliography