Popes and Jews, 1095-1291

192 Popes and Jews, 1095–1291 Thus popes exerted their authority to try to protect Jews from physical mistreat- ment. Yet they a ...

Papal Claims to Authority over Judaism 193 of ‘heavy and immoderate usury’ of Christians by Jews, rather than an outright ban, w ...

194 Popes and Jews, 1095–1291 the bishop of Cordova he expressed grave concern that in the provinces of Cordova and Baeza, Jews ...

Papal Claims to Authority over Judaism 195 nevertheless, despite such sentiments, Peter the venerable did not connect his views ...

196 Popes and Jews, 1095–1291 odo of Châteauroux, and from thirty-five accusations levelled against the Talmud, probably repeate ...

Papal Claims to Authority over Judaism 197 sentence of excommunication against those who refused to give them up.230 In another ...

198 Popes and Jews, 1095–1291 Gregory’s purpose was to show that the Talmud’s teachings were absurd. In par- ticular he wanted t ...

Papal Claims to Authority over Judaism 199 many. Yet there is no evidence of any mass seizure of books by the other major monarc ...

200 Popes and Jews, 1095–1291 err in those things which pertain to the truth of the old law, the Church judges concerning those ...

Papal Claims to Authority over Judaism 201 ... we then, bound as we are by the Divine command to tolerate them in their law, tho ...

202 Popes and Jews, 1095–1291 Christian objections to the burning of the Talmud, Innocent also anticipated objections to his com ...

Papal Claims to Authority over Judaism 203 fears by making them seem part of a larger threatening coalition.269 Finally, he argu ...

204 Popes and Jews, 1095–1291 long ago made its peace with it. For Innocent, although Donin had introduced new and damning evide ...

Papal Claims to Authority over Judaism 205 Indeed at ‘official’ levels—both ecclesiastical and secular—the impact of the Talmud’ ...

206 Popes and Jews, 1095–1291 1267, Clement Iv similarly complained to the archbishop of Tarragona about innumerable abuses and ...

Three Hebrew narratives have survived from the intensified campaigns of the Church of the mid-thirteenth century: one—The Disput ...

208 Popes and Jews, 1095–1291 when the Church sought to claim jurisdiction.6 That claim was often opposed by the civil authoriti ...

The Papacy and the Place of Jews in Christian Society 209 voluntary baptism as much as possible and to give converts every incen ...

210 Popes and Jews, 1095–1291 In response to this decree and often with the support of monarchs, the friars began to set up ‘Hou ...

The Papacy and the Place of Jews in Christian Society 211 Innocent’s successors continued to issue letters about conversion. Hon ...