Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Antisemitism
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Antisemitism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I The Classical Period
- Part II Medieval Times
- 8 The Medieval Islamic World and the Jews
- 9 Medieval Western Christendom
- 10 Christian Theology and Papal Policy in the Middle Ages
- 11 Crusades, Blood Libels, and Popular Violence
- 12 Jews and Money
- 13 Jews and Anti-Judaism in Christian Religious Literature
- 14 Antisemitism in Medieval Art
- Part III The Modern Era
- Appendix The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance: Working Definition of Antisemitism
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- References
10 - Christian Theology and Papal Policy in the Middle Ages
from Part II - Medieval Times
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2022
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Antisemitism
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Antisemitism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I The Classical Period
- Part II Medieval Times
- 8 The Medieval Islamic World and the Jews
- 9 Medieval Western Christendom
- 10 Christian Theology and Papal Policy in the Middle Ages
- 11 Crusades, Blood Libels, and Popular Violence
- 12 Jews and Money
- 13 Jews and Anti-Judaism in Christian Religious Literature
- 14 Antisemitism in Medieval Art
- Part III The Modern Era
- Appendix The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance: Working Definition of Antisemitism
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- References
Summary
This chapter considers the impact of theological doctrine on papal policy toward the Jews in medieval Europe. Specifically, it focuses on the ambivalence toward Jews and Judaism inherent in the Augustinian doctrine of Jewish witness and its expression in the decrees of Gregory the Great, Innocent III, and those popes who first condemned the Talmud in the 13th century.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Antisemitism , pp. 176 - 193Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022
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Further Reading
Champagne, M.-T., and Resnick, I. M., eds., Jews and Muslims under the Fourth Lateran Council (Turnhout, 2018). A recent collection of essays on the decrees of the Fourth Lateran Council (1215) concerning non-Christians in Christendom.Google Scholar
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Cohen, J., The Friars and the Jews: The Evolution of Medieval Anti-Judaism (Ithaca, NY, 1982). A study of the new Christian assault on contemporary postbiblical Judaism in the 13th and 14th century, and the role of Dominican and Franciscan friars in implementing it.Google Scholar
Cohen, J., Living Letters of the Law: Ideas of the Jew in Medieval Christianity (Berkeley, CA, 1999). The career of Christianity’s “hermeneutical Jew,” the Jew constructed to meet the needs of Catholic theology, from Augustine to the 13th century.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Grayzel, S., The Church and the Jews in the XIIIth Century, 2 vols. (New York, 1966–1989). First published in 1933, the classic collection of papal and conciliar decrees, in their Latin original and English translation, summaries, and/or notes. Vol. 1 is prefaced by Grayzel’s still valuable historical overview, vol. 2 contains Grayzel’s important study of 13th-century ecclesiastical policy, “Popes, Jews and Inquisition from ‘Sicut’ to ‘Turbato.’”Google Scholar
Grayzel, S., “The Papal Bull Sicut Judaeis,” in Studies and Essays in Honor of Abraham A. Neuman, ed. Ben-Horin, Meir et al. (Leiden, 1962), 243–248. Grayzel’s foundational essay on the standard papal constitution on behalf of the Jews, protecting their rights to live unharmed under Christian rule.Google Scholar
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