Inhalt: | "One mystical body ... only one shepherd" : church ideal of spiritual and social hierarchy -- "Two swords ... the spiritual and the temporal" -- The threat to the sword of spiritual power : "those wretched and miserable Jews" -- All heresies are forbidden by both divine and imperial law -- The upset social order : nobles and the Jews in Poland -- Polish triangle of power : the king, the nobles and the Catholic Church -- "We were born nobles first and only then Catholics, Jews and nobles -- Their protectors, a great danger --From the outcry of the Gentiles that Jews ... have dominion over them -- Heresy and the fleeting "triumph of the counter-Reformation -- Christians on trial for "falling into the perfidious apostasy and the superstitious sect of the Jews" between "the Papists" and "the Arians" -- The Christian "dissidentes de religione" "to accept one true -- Confession," not "someone else's ... but our own Polish and Christian" -- "Bad and cruel Catholics" : Christian sins and social intimacies between Jews and Christians -- Sunday sins and Jewish inns -- "Debaucheries, adulteries and lewdness" : female servants in Jewish homes -- Feasting, drinking, and dancing : Jewish-Christian socializing -- "Neither men nor women should wear non-Jewish clothes" -- Rabbis' views on Jewish-Christian interaction -- "Even Jews and Turks observe holidays better -- The Church rebukes sinning Christians -- "A shameful offence" : the nobles and their Jews -- "Impoverished and destroyed" : church revenues and the Jews -- The Jews as their Lord squire : a wave of prohibitions to restore the church -- Ideal of social hierarchy -- The money, the pepper, the saffron and the Christian blood -- The Lords' defiance of the Church and the consequences thereof -- "Countless books against common faith" : Catholic insularity and anti-Jewish polemic -- "So, is it inappropriate for us to have books?" : control of printing and scholarship -- Jewish instruction of Christian scholars in Poland and abroad -- "The rabid and cruel synagogue" : accusations by Catholic clergy in Poland -- The host and the blood : the medievalism of Polish anti-Jewish polemic -- "Is it permissible to kill a pagan or a Jew ...?" -- "Warding off heretical depravity" : "whom does the Catholic Church reject, condemn, and curse?" -- Promoting Mary and the saints -- Challenging the Protestants by undermining the Jews -- "The heretics are truly worse" -- "Blindness", "obstinacy", and "blasphemies" : anti-Jewish sources of anti-Protestant assaults -- "They are obliged to be subordinate to the dominant -- Religion : legislative measures concerning heretics -- Conclusion: Did the counter Reformation triumph in Poland? |
