Jews and heretics in Catholic Poland : a beleaguered church in the post-Reformation era

Jews and heretics in Catholic Poland : a beleaguered church in the post-Reformation era / Magda Teter.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Teter, Magda
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Catholic Church > Poland > History.
Jews > Poland > History.
Christian heretics > Poland > History.
Counter-Reformation > Poland.
Poland > Church history.
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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?

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