The first half of the seventeenth century saw a profound structural shift in the English economy and economic discourse. One of the controversial issues under dispute was the nature of usury. This paper sheds light on the enduring association of Jews with usury and seeks to demonstrate how the two concepts came to be decoupled in mid-seventeenth century England. It focuses on two case studies—the Jewish readmission polemic and Harrington’s Oceana—and examines two different channels through which this decoupling occurred. Reading these cases through the perspective of usury offers new insights not only into developing attitudes towards the Jews, but also into the different ways of coping with changing relations between traditional theological-economic paradigms and a shifting social reality in early modern England.

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十七世纪中叶的英格兰、高利贷和犹太人

十七世纪上半叶见证了英国经济和经济话语的深刻结构转变。有争议的争议问题之一是高利贷的性质。本文阐明了犹太人与高利贷的持久联系，并试图证明这两个概念是如何在 17 世纪中叶的英国分离的。它侧重于两个案例研究——犹太人重新接纳的争论和哈灵顿的 Oceana——并检查了这种脱钩发生的两个不同渠道。从高利贷的角度阅读这些案例不仅提供了对犹太人态度的新见解，而且提供了应对传统神学经济范式与现代早期英国不断变化的社会现实之间不断变化的关系的不同方式的新见解。