Language:
English
Year of publication:
2010
Titel der Quelle:
The Cambridge Guide to Jewish History, Religion, and Culture
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2010) 113-139
Keywords:
Jews History Middle Ages, 500-1500
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Jews
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Judaism Relations
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Christianity
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Christianity and other religions Judaism
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Christianity and other religions Judaism To 1500
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History
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Christianity and antisemitism History To 1500
Abstract:
Describes Jewish existence in medieval Catholic Europe, focusing on the ambivalent attitude toward Jews on the part of both the Church and lay authorities. While respecting the Jews as God's first Chosen People and defending their right to live within Christian society, the Church tried to keep the Jews apart from Christians and supported negative imagery of Jews, thus creating an atmosphere leading to popular hatred of the Jews and periodical outbursts of violence. The lay authorities, who could have been interested in the Jews and in their role in the economy, sometimes came to regard the Jews as a burdensome group (e.g. deteriorating their relationship with their subjects and the Church) and decreed their expulsions. Especially precarious was the situation of the Jews in Northern Europe, where they were regarded not only as deicides and dissidents, but also as newcomers, and where their activities were limited to moneylending.
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