According to Joseph Jacobs, Jewish literary and scholarly culture received its prime impetus during the time of Angevin England from France.
Jacobs sees Simeon Chasid of Treves as the first such writer; he lived in England between 1106 and 1146.
[1] The increasing degradation of the political status of the Jews in the thirteenth century is paralleled by the scarcity of their literary output compared with that of the twelfth.
In the earlier century, for example, there were eminent authorities such as Abraham ibn Ezra, Judah Sir Leon of Paris, Yom Tov of Joigny, and Jacob of Orléans, in addition to a school of grammarians which appears to have existed, including Moses ben Yom-Ṭob and Moses ben Isaac.
In England Berechiah ha-Nakdan produced his Fox Fables—one of the most remarkable literary productions of the Middle Ages.