by hadassah | Sep 21, 2015 | The Church and the Jews
1511, Fresco, Stanza della Segnatura, Palazzi Pontifici, Vatican The four Stanze di Raffaello (Raphael Rooms) form a suite of reception rooms in the public part of the papal apartments in the Palace of the Vatican. They are famous for their frescoes, painted by...
by hadassah | Dec 16, 2008 | The Church and the Jews
Overview: The Church and the Jews The period between 1000 and 1500 was characterized, above all else, by the creation of a significant Jewish presence in medieval western Christendom, forcing both the Christian majority and the Jewish minority to new awareness...
by hadassah | Apr 14, 2008 | The Church and the Jews
The Roman Catholic Church—Policies—Missionizing Church policy of protection and limitation was complicated by yet one more element, and that involved the commitment to preaching Christian truth to the Jews. During the early part of our period, the eleventh and...
by hadassah | Apr 14, 2008 | The Church and the Jews
The Roman Catholic Church—Policies—Economic Limitations While the notion of Jewish harm inflicted on Christians was initially an issue of the religious sphere of life, with the passage of time this notion could easily be expanded and was. With the Jewish move...
by hadassah | Apr 14, 2008 | The Church and the Jews
The Roman Catholic Church—Policies—Segregation Jews were prohibited from inflicting harm on Christianity and harm on Christians as well. The most obvious harm that Jews could inflict of Christians was to wean them away from their faith. Jews might under no...
by hadassah | Apr 14, 2008 | The Church and the Jews
The Roman Catholic Church—Policies—Prohibition of Blasphemy According to the basic doctrine of the medieval Roman Catholic Church, Jews had a fundamental right to secure existence in Christian society, balanced by the need for Jewish life to be constrained in...
