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A brief introduction to four periods of the history of the Jews and popes in Rome
Pius V is usually viewed from either an exclusively Catholic or exclusively Jewish viewpoint. New dimensions are revealed when he is examined from both at the same time, as this paper argues. The paper was published in Dominicans and Jews, ed. E. Fuellenbach and G. Miletto, De Gruyter, 2015.
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The essential clash between Judaism and Christianity, especially Catholic Christianity, has been over purity and contamination, in particular, by touch. The anxiety is biblically derived. It pertains especially to consuming meat and is amplified by the biophilic ‘affiliation’ of humans with animals. The current debate over kosher and halal slaughtering carries over these anxieties. That debate is exemplified in the article by the prohibition of Christian butchers purchasing and selling nonkosher quarters of meat in the early eighteenth century Roman Ghetto and the fight against this prohibition waged by Rabbi Tranquillo Corcos.
Framing Jewish Culture: Boundaries, Representations, and Exhibitions of Ethnic Difference, Jewish Cultural Studies, Vol 4
Selective Inclusion: Integration and Isolation of Jews in Medieval Italy2014 •
This essay presents episodes, mostly from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries, that demonstrate how Jews existed within the spatial framework of Rome and elsewhere in medieval Christian Italy, straddling social, economic, and spatial boundaries. Using a variety of sources to physically locate Jews in Italian urban culture allows a better understanding of the civic space available to them in Italian cities in the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance. Stretching from just before the promulgation of anti-Jewish decrees at the Fourth Lateran Council until the creation of the Venetian ghetto in 1516, this was a tumultuous but transformative period of Italian and Jewish history, in which Jewish communities settled and thrived throughout the entire peninsula.
For most of the Middle Ages, canon law’s position toward the Jews of Latin Christendom was straightforward: they were to be marginalized, but not expelled. Over the course of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, however, jurists began to question whether canon law might indeed require the expulsion of Jews. This question turned on the interpretation of an ecumenical decree, Usurarum voraginem, which had been drafted in response to Christian moneylending, but whose ambiguous phrasing took on new meaning as a result of shifting political dynamics and new trends in canonistic jurisprudence. Ultimately, even a reigning pope would come down in favor of an expansive reading of the decree, rupturing a tradition of papal resistance to Jewish expulsion that had endured for nearly a thousand years. By tracing jurists’ debates over the meaning of the decree alongside the response of secular and ecclesiastical authorities, this paper explores the interaction between legislative intent, legal interpretation, and the expulsion of Jews in the late Middle Ages.
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The Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law
Spiritualis Uterus: The Question of Forced Baptism, and Thomas Aquinas’s Defense of Jewish Parental Rights2018 •
The Cambridge History of Judaism, vol. 7: The Early Modern World
The Jews of Italy (1650-1815)2017 •
A Companion to Early Modern Rome, 1492-1692
Pamela M Jones, Barbara Wisch, & Simon Ditchfield, Table of Contents & INTRODUCTION2019 •
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Ilia Rodov, "Papal Lions on the Torah Ark: A Heraldic Symbol Converted"BA Thesys, Zagreb: University of Zagreb, 1999
Sephardic Diaspora in the Mediterranean in the 16th CenturyMediterranean Historical Review
Rabbis on refugees: theological responses to the treatment of converso migrants in sixteenth- century Candia2019 •