At 11:14 AM 8/3/00 +0100, you wrote:
>A book which argues that the Jews were just one of a number of minority
>groups persecuted by a Christian majority is R.I. Moore, _The Formation of
>a Persecuting Society: Power and Deviance in Western Europe, 950-1250_
>(Oxford, 1987).
"just one"? he argues they were the first and most feared, and that the
machinery (institutional and ideological) built to fight them off by the
reforming clergy of the 11th cn was then switched over to others (starting
with heretics, then moving on to a whole range of targets including lepers).
i personally disagree with the thesis. i think "popular" heresy (apostolic)
was the main concern, and that jews were implicated (at least in the minds
of the clergy who attacked the two). but i think it misleading to say that
moore's point is that the jews were "just one of a number of minority
groups..."
rlandes
>Don Mowbray.
>
>
>>From: Jeffrey Woolf <[log in to unmask]>
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>>Subject: Re: Jews and Christians: Bibliography?
>>Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 11:52:43 +0300 (IDT)
>>
>>I recommend J. Cohen, Essential Papers on Jewish Christian Relations, NYU
>>Press; J. Katz, Exclusiveness and Tolerance, Schocken; idem, Divine Law in
>>Human Hands, Magnes; D. Berger, The Jewish Christian Debate in the High
>>Middle Ages, Jason aronson; D. Lasker, Jewish Philosophic Polemi.
>>
>>Jeffrey R. Woolf
>>
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