Language:
English
Year of publication:
1996
Titel der Quelle:
From Witness to Witchcraft
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1996) 257-273
Keywords:
Philip
;
Louis
;
Louis
;
Jews History To 1500
;
Jews History 14th century
;
Antisemitism History Middle Ages, 500-1500
;
Kings and rulers History To 1500
Abstract:
Medieval rulers usually made immediate and dramatic displays of power at the time of their accession to the throne. Contends that doing something extraordinary to harm the Jews was one of the acts adopted in France, and examines why this was the case. Describes actions against the Jews by King Philip II Augustus (1180-1223), who expelled the Jews from the French domain in 1182, but readmitted them in 1198, and he thereafter developed a policy of leniency toward the Jews. The first act of his son, Louis VIII (1223-1226), on his accession was to repudiate his father's policy of leniency. Throughout the ensuing 13th century there was an increasingly hostile and restrictive royal policy toward the Jews. However, Louis X (1314-1316), the son of Philip IV who had expelled the Jews in 1306, had become the King of Navarre in 1305 (at the age of 16) as an inheritance from his mother, and he admitted the expelled Jews into his realm in Navarre. On his accession to the French throne in 1314, he nullified his father's expulsion decree.
Note:
Appeared also in his "Ideology and Royal Power in Medieval France" (2001).
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