Jews and heretics in catholic Poland

Titel: Jews and heretics in catholic Poland : a beleaguered church in the post-Reformation era / Magda Teter
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Veröffentlicht: Cambridge ˜[u.a.]œ : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2006
Umfang: XXXIII, 272 S.
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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ISBN: 0521856736 ; 9780521856737
Lokale Klassifikation: 32 3 F ; 32 11 D ; 32 11 G ; 32 7 F
  • List of Illustrations
  • p. xi
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • p. xiii
  • Note on Terms, Spelling, and Translations
  • p. xxi
  • Abbreviations
  • p. xxiii
  • Introduction
  • p. 1
  • 1
  • "One Mystical Body...Only One Shepherd": The Church Ideals of Social Order
  • p. 7
  • "Two Swords...the Spiritual and the Temporal"
  • p. 7
  • The Threat to the Sword of Spiritual Power: "Those Wretched and Miserable Jews"
  • p. 10
  • "All Heresies Are Forbidden by Both Divine and Imperial Law"
  • p. 18
  • 2
  • The Upset Social Order: Nobles and the Jews in Poland
  • p. 21
  • Polish Triangle of Power: The King, the Nobles, and the Catholic Church
  • p. 22
  • "We Were Born Nobles First and Only Then Catholics"
  • p. 25
  • Jews and the Nobles, "Their Protectors"
  • p. 28
  • "A Great Danger...from the Outcry of the Gentiles that Jews...Have Dominion over Them"
  • p. 33
  • 3
  • Heresy and the Fleeting "Triumph of the Counter-Reformation"
  • p. 41
  • Christians on Trial for "Falling into the Perfidious Apostasy and the Superstitious Sect of the Jews"
  • p. 42
  • Between "the Papists" and "the Arians": The Christian "dissidentes de religione"
  • p. 45
  • "To Accept One True Confession," Not "Someone Else's...But Our Own Polish and Christian"
  • p. 52
  • 4
  • "Bad and Cruel Catholics": Christian Sins and Social Intimacies Between Jews and Christians
  • p. 59
  • Sunday Sins and Jewish Inns
  • p. 60
  • "Debaucheries, Adulteries, and Lewdness": Female Servants in Jewish Homes
  • p. 63
  • Feasting, Drinking, and Dancing: Jewish-Christian Socializing
  • p. 69
  • "Neither Men nor Women Should Wear Non-Jewish Clothes": Restrictions of Rabbinic Law
  • p. 71
  • "Even Jews and Turks Observe Holidays Better": The Church Rebukes Sinning Christians
  • p. 76
  • 5
  • "A Shameful Offence": The Nobles and Their Jews
  • p. 80
  • "Impoverished and Destroyed": Church Revenues and the Jews
  • p. 82
  • "The Jews as Their Lord Squire": A Wave of Prohibitions to Restore the Church Ideal of Social Hierarchy
  • p. 88
  • "The Money, the Pepper, the Saffron, and the Christian Blood"
  • p. 91
  • The Lords' Defiance of the Church and the Consequences Thereof
  • p. 95
  • 6
  • "Countless Books Against Common Faith": Catholic Insularity and Anti-Jewish Polemic
  • p. 99
  • "So, Is It Inappropriate for Us to Have Books?": Control of Printing and Scholarship
  • p. 100
  • Jewish Instruction of Christian Scholars, in Poland and Abroad
  • p. 105
  • "The Rabid and Cruel Synagogue": Accusations by Catholic Clergy in Poland
  • p. 107
  • The Host and the Blood: The Medievalism of Polish Anti-Jewish Polemic
  • p. 113
  • "Is It Permissible to Kill a Pagan or a Jew...?"
  • p. 117
  • 7
  • "Warding Off Heretical Depravity": "Whom Does the Catholic Church Reject, Condemn and Curse?"
  • p. 122
  • Promoting Mary and the Saints
  • p. 122
  • Challenging the Protestants by Undermining the Jews
  • p. 125
  • "The Heretics Are Truly Worse"
  • p. 127
  • "Blindness," "Obstinacy," and "Blasphemies": Anti-Jewish Sources of Anti-Protestant Assaults
  • p. 131
  • "They Are Obliged to Be Subordinate to the Dominant Religion": Legislative Measures Concerning Heretics
  • p. 137
  • Conclusion: Did the Counter-Reformation Triumph in Poland?
  • p. 142
  • Glossary
  • p. 147
  • Notes
  • p. 149
  • Selected Bibliography
  • p. 225
  • Index
  • p. 253