Money and the Jew is a dark trope pervading western thought. The Anglophone world celebrates Shakespeare, whose moneylender Shylock seeks his pound of flesh, and reveres the Magna Carta, whose original clauses included relief from Jewish moneylenders. Intertwined with the trope is the recurring theme of rulers exploiting popular suspicion in order to shore up… Continue reading #OTD 9 November – The benefit of the exchequer