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"""Brilliant, illuminating. . . . this is a book that will be studied for a long time to come.""---David d'Avray, Reviews in History ""This solid work of historical analysis will long remain an important contribution to the history of medieval expulsions . . . [and] it is an exemplar of how to critically think about and use sources."" * Choice * ""Original [and] scholarly.""---Jamin Andreas Hübner, EH.Net"

"""Winner of the Margaret Wade Labarge Prize, Canadian Society of Medievalists"" ""Winner of the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical Association"" ""Winner of the Pacific Coast Branch Book Award, American Historical Association"" ""Winner of the Salo W. Baron Prize, Association for Jewish Studies"" ""A remarkable book. . . . [No Return] is one of the most compelling, learned, and creatively argued revisionist studies I have ever read and firmly establishes Rowan Dorin as one of the most promising medieval historians working today.""---Thomas W. Barton, Speculum ""Brilliant, illuminating. . . . this is a book that will be studied for a long time to come.""---David d'Avray, Reviews in History ""This solid work of historical analysis will long remain an important contribution to the history of medieval expulsions . . . [and] it is an exemplar of how to critically think about and use sources."" * Choice * ""Original [and] scholarly.""---Jamin Andreas Hübner, EH.Net ""There is much to learn from this original and engaging study.""---Thomas A. Fudge, Journal of Religious History ""Until now, however, the history of the political practice of group expulsion—and of the nexus between group expulsions and accusations of usury—was not understood. No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe breaks new ground in elucidating these key facets of the Middle Ages. In the process, it transforms understandings of Jewish expulsions, medieval moneylending, and the legal and theological discourses that responded to and shaped new political practices and social realities.""---Paola Tartakoff, Journal of Church and State ""In this pioneering work, Rowan Dorin pulls back the curtain regarding Jewish dominance of money lending in late medieval Europe. . . . A valuable addition to academic collections supporting studies in medieval European history.""---Randall C. and Anne-Marie Belinfante, Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews"

""Winner of the Margaret Wade Labarge Prize, Canadian Society of Medievalists"" ""Winner of the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical Association"" ""Winner of the Pacific Coast Branch Book Award, American Historical Association"" ""Winner of the Salo W. Baron Prize, American Academy for Jewish Research"" ""Finalist for the Jordan Schnitzer Award in Medieval & Early Modern Jewish History & Culture, Association for Jewish Studies"" ""A remarkable book. . . . [No Return] is one of the most compelling, learned, and creatively argued revisionist studies I have ever read and firmly establishes Rowan Dorin as one of the most promising medieval historians working today.""---Thomas W. Barton, Speculum ""Brilliant, illuminating. . . . this is a book that will be studied for a long time to come.""---David d'Avray, Reviews in History ""This solid work of historical analysis will long remain an important contribution to the history of medieval expulsions . . . [and] it is an exemplar of how to critically think about and use sources."" * Choice * ""Original [and] scholarly.""---Jamin Andreas Hübner, EH.Net ""There is much to learn from this original and engaging study.""---Thomas A. Fudge, Journal of Religious History ""Until now, however, the history of the political practice of group expulsion—and of the nexus between group expulsions and accusations of usury—was not understood. No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe breaks new ground in elucidating these key facets of the Middle Ages. In the process, it transforms understandings of Jewish expulsions, medieval moneylending, and the legal and theological discourses that responded to and shaped new political practices and social realities.""---Paola Tartakoff, Journal of Church and State ""In this pioneering work, Rowan Dorin pulls back the curtain regarding Jewish dominance of money lending in late medieval Europe. . . . A valuable addition to academic collections supporting studies in medieval European history.""---Randall C. and Anne-Marie Belinfante, Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews ""Innovative. . . . No Return will be central to all future discussions of medieval Jewish history, as well as to the economic, political, ecclesiastical, and legal history of later medieval Europe.""---Sara Lipton, American Historical Review ""[A] thoughtful, deeply researched book.""---John Tolan, Times Literary Supplement

"""Winner of the Margaret Wade Labarge Prize, Canadian Society of Medievalists"" ""Shortlisted for the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical Association"" ""Winner of the Pacific Coast Branch Book Award, American Historical Association"" ""Brilliant, illuminating. . . . this is a book that will be studied for a long time to come.""---David d'Avray, Reviews in History ""This solid work of historical analysis will long remain an important contribution to the history of medieval expulsions . . . [and] it is an exemplar of how to critically think about and use sources."" * Choice * ""Original [and] scholarly.""---Jamin Andreas Hübner, EH.Net ""There is much to learn from this original and engaging study.""---Thomas A. Fudge, Journal of Religious History ""Until now, however, the history of the political practice of group expulsion—and of the nexus between group expulsions and accusations of usury—was not understood. No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe breaks new ground in elucidating these key facets of the Middle Ages. In the process, it transforms understandings of Jewish expulsions, medieval moneylending, and the legal and theological discourses that responded to and shaped new political practices and social realities.""---Paola Tartakoff, Journal of Church and State ""In this pioneering work, Rowan Dorin pulls back the curtain regarding Jewish dominance of money lending in late medieval Europe. . . . A valuable addition to academic collections supporting studies in medieval European history.""---Randall C. and Anne-Marie Belinfante, Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews"

"""Brilliant, illuminating. . . . this is a book that will be studied for a long time to come.""---David d'Avray, Reviews in History ""This solid work of historical analysis will long remain an important contribution to the history of medieval expulsions . . . [and] it is an exemplar of how to critically think about and use sources."" * Choice * ""Original [and] scholarly.""---Jamin Andreas Hübner, EH.Net ""There is much to learn from this original and engaging study.""---Thomas A. Fudge, Journal of Religious History"

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Rowan Dorin is Associate Professor of History at Stanford University.

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