An edition of Jews and heretics in Catholic Poland
(2005)
Jews and heretics in Catholic Poland
a beleagured church in the post-Reformation era
by Magda Teter and MAGDA TETER
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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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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