Language:
Italian
Year of publication:
1997
Titel der Quelle:
Zakhor; rivista di storia degli ebrei d'Italia
Angaben zur Quelle:
1 (1997) 11-23
Keywords:
Judas Iscariot
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Antisemitism History Middle Ages, 500-1500
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Christianity and antisemitism History To 1500
Abstract:
Traces the birth of the negative economic stereotype of the Jew (e.g. as usurer) to the 11th-12th-century theological controversy on "simony, " the accusation of making profit from sacred objects or Church property. Many ecclesiastical figures, among them Cardinal Umberto di Silvacandida in his "Adversus Simoniacos" (1058), fulminated against this materialistic deviation, denounced as "carnality" and "avarice, " comparable with Judas's cupidity and treason, and thus identified with "Judaica infidelitas" and "perfidia Judeorum." These accusations, echoed later by Peter the Venerable and Bernard of Clairvaux, were in fact realized in the archetypical figure of the Jew-usurer sanctioned by the Lateran Council of 1215.
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