Jews and heretics in Catholic Poland : a beleagured church in the post-Reformation era /
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Author / Creator: | Teter, Magda. |
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Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xxiii, 272 pages) : illustrations, 1 map |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11812298 |
Table of Contents:
- "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?