The Roman Catholic Church—Policies—Economic Limitations

Medieval W. Christendom

1. Introduction
   1. Economic Limitations
2. Images
   1. Pope Innocent III
   2. Monti de Pieta
3. Primary Texts
   1. Pope Innocent III, 1208 Papal Document
   2. Fourth Lateran Council, 1215 Conciliar Decree
   3. Council of Narbonne, 1227 Conciliar Decree
   4. Pope Gregory IX, 1237 Papal Document
4. Secondary Literature
   1. S. Simonsohn, The Apostolic See and the Jews- History, 157-227.
   2. R. Chazan, The Jews of Medieval Western Christendom, 58-63.
   3. K. Stow, “Papal and Royal Attitudes toward Jewish Lending in the Thirteenth Century,” AJS Review6 (1981)-161-184.
   4. A. Toaff, “Jews, Franciscans, and the First Monti de Pieta in Italy (1462-1500),” Friars and Jews in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, ed. Steven J. McMichael and Susan E. Myers (Leiden- Brill, 2004), 239-253.