Jews and heretics in Catholic Poland
Subtitle: a beleagured church in the post-Reformation era
By: Magda Teter.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780521856737
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Poland -- History; Jews -- Poland -- History; Heretics -- Poland -- History; Counter-Reformation -- Poland; Poland -- Church history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "One mystical body ... only one shepherd" : church ideal of spiritual and social hierarchy; title: "Two swords ... the spiritual and the temporal"; title: The threat to the sword of spiritual power : "those wretched and miserable Jews"; title: All heresies are forbidden by both divine and imperial law; title: The upset social order : nobles and the Jews in Poland; title: Polish triangle of power : the king, the nobles and the Catholic Church; title: "We were born nobles first and only then Catholics, Jews and nobles; title: Their protectors, a great danger; title: From the outcry of the Gentiles that Jews ... have dominion over them; title: Heresy and the fleeting "triumph of the counter-Reformation; title: Christians on trial for "falling into the perfidious apostasy and the superstitious sect of the Jews" between "the Papists" and "the Arians"; title: The Christian "dissidentes de religione"  "to accept one true; title: Confession," not "someone else's ... but our own Polish and Christian"; title: "Bad and cruel Catholics" : Christian sins and social intimacies between Jews and Christians; title: Sunday sins and Jewish inns; title: "Debaucheries, adulteries and lewdness" : female servants in Jewish homes; title: Feasting, drinking, and dancing : Jewish-Christian socializing; title: "Neither men nor women should wear non-Jewish clothes"; title: Rabbis' views on Jewish-Christian interaction; title: "Even Jews and Turks observe holidays better; title: The Church rebukes sinning Christians; title: "A shameful offence" : the nobles and their Jews; title: "Impoverished and destroyed" : church revenues and the Jews; title: The Jews as their Lord squire : a wave of prohibitions to restore the church; title: Ideal of social hierarchy; title: The money, the pepper, the saffron and the Christian blood; title: The Lords' defiance of the Church and the consequences thereof; title: "Countless books against common faith" : Catholic insularity and anti-Jewish polemic; title: "So, is it inappropriate for us to have books?" : control of printing and scholarship; title: Jewish instruction of Christian scholars in Poland and abroad; title: "The rabid and cruel synagogue" : accusations by Catholic clergy in Poland; title: The host and the blood : the medievalism of Polish anti-Jewish polemic; title: "Is it permissible to kill a pagan or a Jew ...?"; title: "Warding off heretical depravity" : "whom does the Catholic Church reject, condemn, and curse?"; title: Promoting Mary and the saints; title: Challenging the Protestants by undermining the Jews; title: "The heretics are truly worse"; title: "Blindness", "obstinacy", and "blasphemies" : anti-Jewish sources of anti-Protestant assaults; title: "They are obliged to be subordinate to the dominant; title: Religion : legislative measures concerning heretics; title: Conclusion: Did the counter Reformation triumph in Poland?