Editing Edict of Expulsion (section)

==Significance==
{{see also|History of the Jews in England (1066–1290)#Attitudes to the Jewry after 1290}}
[[File:Edward I - Westminster Abbey Sedilia.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.6|alt=A painting of Edward I of England|[[Edward I of England|Edward I]] used [[antisemitism]] as an instrument of state policy.]]
The permanent expulsion of Jews from England and tactics employed before it, such as attempts at forced conversion, are widely seen as setting a significant precedent and an example for the 1492 [[Alhambra Decree]].<ref>{{harvnb|Richmond|1992|pp=44-45}}, {{harvnb|Roth|1964|p=90}}, {{harvnb|Huscroft|2006|p=164}}</ref> Traditional narratives of Edward I have sought to downplay the event, emphasising the peacefulness of the expulsion or placing its roots in Edward's pragmatic need to extract money from Parliament;{{sfn|Richmond|1992|pp=44-45}} more recent work on the Anglo-Jewish community's experience have framed it as the culmination of a policy of state-sponsored antisemitism.{{sfn|Stacey|2001|p=177}} These studies place the expulsion in the context of the execution of Jews for coin clipping and the first royal-sponsored attempts at converting Jews to Christianity, saying this was the first time a state had permanently expelled all Jews from its territory.<ref>{{harvnb|Roth|1964|p=90}}, {{harvnb|Stacey|2001}}, {{harvnb|Skinner|2003|p=1}}, {{harvnb|Huscroft|2006|p=12}}</ref> 

For Edward I's contemporaries, there is evidence the expulsion was seen as one of his most-prominent achievements. It was named alongside his wars of conquest in Scotland and Wales in the ''[[Commendatio]]'' that was widely circulated after his death, saying Edward I outshone the Pharoahs by exiling the Jews.<ref>{{harvnb|Strickland|2018|pp=455–6}}</ref>

The expulsion had a lasting effect on medieval and early-modern English culture. Antisemitic narratives became embedded in the idea of England as unique because it had no Jews, and of the English as God's chosen people, superseding the Jews. Jews became an easy target of literature and plays, and tropes such as child sacrifice and host desecration persisted.<ref>{{harvnb|Richmond|1992|pp=55-7}}, {{harvnb|Strickland|2018}}, {{harvnb|Shapiro|1996|p=42}}, {{harvnb|Tomasch|2002|pp=69-70}}, {{harvnb|Despres|1998|p=47}}, {{harvnb|Glassman|1975}} See chapters 1 and 2</ref> Jews began to settle in England after 1656,{{sfn|Roth|1964|pp=164-6}} and formal equality was [[Jewish emancipation in the United Kingdom|achieved by 1858]].{{sfn|Roth|1964|p=266}} According to medieval historian [[Colin Richmond]], English antisemitism left a legacy of neglect of this topic in English historical research as late as the 1990s.{{sfn|Richmond|1992|p=45}} The story of Little Saint Hugh was repeated as fact in local guidebooks in Lincoln in the 1920s, and [[St Hugh's School, Woodhall Spa|a private school]] was named after Hugh around the same time. The logo of the school, which referenced the story, was altered in 2020.<ref>{{harvnb|Martineau|1975|p=2}}, {{harvnb|Tolan|2023|p=188}}</ref>

===Apology===
In May 2022, the [[Church of England]] held a service that the Archbishop of Canterbury [[Justin Welby]] described as a formal "act of repentance" on the 800th anniversary of the [[Synod of Oxford]] in 1222. The Synod passed a set of laws that restricted the right of Jews in England to engage with Christians, which directly contributed to the expulsion of 1290.<ref>{{harvnb|TOA Staff|2022}}, {{harvnb|Gal|2021}}</ref>