re Richard Landes' views on Judaizing:
I'm a bit puzzled about how Richard Landes is seeing the operation of
'judaizing' in the 11th and 12th centuries if on the one hand
'Apostolic' behaviour is viewed as Judaizing while on the other hand
we have Gregory VII's very conscious effort to get back to the
Apostles while simultaneously stressing the difference between the
laity and the clergy.
Moreover the pattern of behaviour among clerics which GVII was
attacking was not the conscious following of a 'Judaic' ideal
but merely, surely, a group of clerics getting on with family
life and commitments to local society in a traditional,
un-thought-out, manner.
Julia Barrow
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