Dear Tim, I'd be interested in the sources cited by Roth concerning "Vineam Soreth". Interesting that in the same year that this bull was published, John Peckham was instituted as archbishop of Canterbury by the Pope. Have you seen Mundill's recent book on the English Jews? MUNDILL, Robin R.: England's Jewish Solution: Experiment and Expulsion, 1262-1290 (Cambridge, 1998) You may want to have a look at the following: CHAZAN, Robert: Daggers of faith: 13th-century Christian missionizing and Jewish response (Berkeley, 1989) SHATZMILLER, Joseph: La deuxieme controverse de Paris: Un chapitre dans la polemique entre chretiens et juifs au Moyen Age (Louvain, Paris, 1994; Collection de la Revue des Etudes Juives, 15) Both relate particularly to the campaigns of the Jewish apostate and Dominican friar Pablo Christiani. Some material can also be found in: SCHOENBACH, Anton E.: Studien zur Geschichte der altdeutschen Predigt, III: Das Wirken Bertholds von Regensburg gegen die Ketzer (Vienna, 1904; Sitzungsberichte der Kais. Akademie der Wissen- schaften in Wien, phil.-hist. Kl. 147); reprinted Hildesheim 1968 WELLS, David A.: Attitudes to the Jews in Early Middle High German Religious Literature and Sermons, in: London German Studies, 4 (1992), 27-69 I have a paper in print that deals with the "Peckham connection" of the 1290 expulsion. If you want, I can sent it to you privately. Best wishes, and kind regards to the folks at Bristol, Christoph **************************************************************** Dr. Christoph Cluse, FB III - Institut fuer Geschichte der Juden DM-Gebaeude, Postf. 12, Universitaet, 54286 Trier, Germany http://www.uni-trier.de/uni/fb3/geschichte/haverkamp/amigj/start.htm tel. ++49-651-201-3303 / fax 3293 ************************************************************ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%