Language:
German
Year of publication:
2004
Titel der Quelle:
Aschkenas; Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur der Juden
Angaben zur Quelle:
14,2 (2004) 365-385
Keywords:
Catholic Church Relations
;
Judaism
;
Popes 16th century
;
Jews History 16th century
;
Christianity and antisemitism History 16th century
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism
;
Papal States
Abstract:
After toleration of Jews in the Middle Ages, and the first signs of deterioration during the Renaissance, persecution of Jews in the Papal States peaked in the Counter-Reformation period. A series of popes imposed harsh limitations on occupations and residence, the wearing of a badge, and forced attendance at sermons, with the purpose of causing Jews to convert. The most fanatic was Paul IV (1555-59). In 1569 Pius V expelled the Jews from the Papal States (except Rome and Ancona). Anti-Jewish popes alternated during this period with more tolerant ones. Attributes the popes' ambivalence to their dual role as heads of the Church and worldly rulers who found the Jews economically useful. Anti-Jewish measures, including ghettoization, spread slowly to other Italian states.
DOI:
10.1515/ASCH.2004.365
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