Popes, Church, and Jews in the Middle Ages: Confrontation and Response. By Kenneth Stow

Abstract

The history of the Church and the Jews is as much the history of the Church as it is that of the Jews. Thus the central theme uniting the essays in this volume is reciprocity, if not mutality. The church and the Jews: St. Paul to Pius IX -- Agobard of Lyons an the medieval concept of the Jew -- Papal and royal attitudes toward Jewish lending in the thirteenth century -- The "1007 anonymous" an papal sovereignty: Jewish perceptions of the papacy and papal policy in the High Middle Ages -- The Avignonese papacy, or after the expulsions -- Papal mendicants or mendicant popes: continuity and change in papal policies toward the Jews and the end of the fifteenth century -- Conversion, apostasy, and apprehensiveness: Emicho of Flonheim and the fear of Jews in the twelfth century -- The Jewish family in the Rhineland in the High middle ages: form and function -- Jacob of Venice and Jewish settlement in Venice in the thirteenth century (with the addition of the letter of Maestro Andrea) -- Holy body, holy society: conflicting medieval structural conception -- By land or by sea: the passage of the Kaonlymides to the Rhineland in the tenth century.