This conference will  use the events of 1189-90 as a lens through which to reassess society in England in the later twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. The York massacre was not just a local event but one of a series of violent attacks on local communities of Jews across England in 1189-90.

This wider conflict provides an important insight into the rapidly changing nature of English society. We therefore wish to invite papers not only on Anglo-Jewry but on the wider interpretative frameworks of scholarship on English culture, society and government within which the events of 1190 need to be located. Keynote speakers: Professor Paul R. Hyams, Department of History, Cornell University and Professor Jeffrey J. Cohen, Department of English, George Washington University and Professor Anna Abulafia, University of Cambridge.

Further details including a booking form, a poster and the full programme can be downloaded from the Conference website.