Language:
French
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
Médiévales
Angaben zur Quelle:
43 (2002) 103-117
Keywords:
Feugeyron, Ponce
;
Jews History Middle Ages, 500-1500
;
Inquisition
Abstract:
Traces the career of Feugeyron, a Franciscan Inquisitor, whose activities covered an area which included almost all of southeastern France, from Avignon through the Dauphiné to the Duchy of Savoy, between 1409-39. Proposes that Feugeyron might have been the author of the anonymous manuscript "Errores gazariorum" (ca. 1436), one of the earliest texts to mention the Witches' Sabbath. Examines his actions against the Jews following a papal bull addressed to him in 1409, highlighting similarities between his fantasies about Jews and about witches. The bull, issued by Pope Alexander V, accused Jews of proselytizing, and condemned usury, the Talmud, and magic supposedly used by "conspiring" Jews and heretical Christians. The Jews of Avignon and the Comtat Venaissin, who had been under the rule of the Pope, were placed under Inquisitorial law, which was applied with such rigor by Feugeyron that Pope Martin V stepped in twice (1418 and 1421) to protect them. In 1426 Feugeyron launched a campaign to censor the Talmud and other Jewish books in the Duchy of Savoy. After the Jews and Christian sects, witches became the target of Feugeyron's attacks.
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