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Jews & the Medieval Church: From Tolerance to Persecution

Explore the complex relationship between Jews and the Medieval Church, from early Christian theologians to the era of the Crusades and Jews under Islamic rule.

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Jews & the Medieval Church: From Tolerance to Persecution

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  1. Jews & the Medieval Church: From Tolerance to Persecution

  2. Jews & the Medieval Church: From Tolerance to Persecution I. Early Christian Theologians and the Jews

  3. Jews & the Medieval Church: From Tolerance to Persecution I. Early Christian Theologians and the Jews A. Theological Negation (verus Israel)

  4. “The Jews sacrifice their children to Satan…they are worse than wild beasts…The synagogue is a curse…[the Jews] have fallen into a condition lower than the vilest animals. Debauchery and drunkenness have brought them to the level of the lusty goat and pig. They only know one thing: to satisfy their stomachs, to get drunk, to kill and beat each other…I hate the Jews, because they violate the Law…It is the duty of all Christians to hate the Jews.” - St. John Chrysostom (347-407), Against the Judaizers

  5. “Impelled by drunkenness, they were guilty of scoffing at Christians and even Christ himself; and in derision of the cross and those who put their trust in the Crucified One, they seized a Christian boy, and having bound him to a cross, began to laugh and sneer at him. But in a little while becoming so transported with fury, they scourged the child until he died under their hands.”- Socrates Scholasticus (c.380- c.450), Ecclesiastical History

  6. Jews & the Medieval Church: From Tolerance to Persecution I. Early Christian Theologians and the Jews A. Theological Negation (verus Israel) B. Political Toleration (sicut Iudaeis)

  7. Jews & the Medieval Church: From Tolerance to Persecution I. Early Christian Theologians and the Jews A. Theological Negation (verus Israel) B. Political Toleration (sicut Iudaeis) C. Practical Limitation

  8. Jews & the Medieval Church: From Tolerance to Persecution I. Early Christian Theologians and the Jews A. Theological Negation B. Political Toleration C. Practical Limitation II. Jews in the Middle Ages

  9. Jews & the Medieval Church: From Tolerance to Persecution I. Early Christian Theologians and the Jews A. Theological Negation B. Political Toleration C. Practical Limitation II. Jews in the Middle Ages A. Early Medieval Background

  10. Jewish money-lenders in medieval France

  11. Jews & the Medieval Church: From Tolerance to Persecution I. Early Christian Theologians and the Jews A. Theological Negation B. Political Toleration II. Jews in the Era of the Crusades A. Early Medieval Background B. The First Crusade: Riots in the Rhineland

  12. 1250 French Bible illustration depicts Jews being massacred by Crusaders

  13. Jews & the Medieval Church: From Tolerance to Persecution I. Early Christian Theologians and the Jews A. Theological Negation B. Political Toleration II. Jews in the Era of the Crusades A. Early Medieval Background B. The First Crusade: Riots in the Rhineland C. The Second Crusade (1145-46) & After

  14. 12th century images of monks preaching the Crusades

  15. [Bernard preached] …It is noble of you to wish to go forth against the Ishmaelites; still, whoever touches a Jew so as to lay hands on his life, does something as sinful as if he laid hands on Jesus himself! My disciple, Ralph, who has spoken against them to exterminate them, has preached only unrighteousness, for, concerning them it stands written in the Books of Psalms: “Do not kill them, let my people not be forgotten!” - Recorded by Ephraim bar Jacob, 1146

  16. Jews & the Medieval Church: From Tolerance to Persecution I. Early Christian Theologians and the Jews A. Theological Negation B. Political Toleration II. Jews in the Era of the Crusades A. Early Medieval Background B. The First Crusade: Riots in the Rhineland C. The Second Crusade (1145-46) & After III. Jews Under Islam

  17. Jews & the Medieval Church: From Tolerance to Persecution I. Early Christian Theologians and the Jews A. Theological Negation B. Political Toleration II. Jews in the Era of the Crusades A. Early Medieval Background B. The First Crusade: Riots in the Rhineland C. The Second Crusade (1145-46) & After III. Jews Under Islam A. Muslim Spain

  18. THE RUINED CITADEL Samuel Ha-Nagid (993-1055) I billeted a strong force overnight in a citadel laid waste in former days by other generals. There we slept upon its back and flanks, while under us its landlords slept. And I said to my heart: Where are the many people who once lived here? Where are the builders and vandals, the rulers and paupers, the slaves and masters? Where are the begetters and the bereaved, the fathers and the sons, the mourners and the bridegrooms? And where are the many people born after the others had died, in days gone by, after other days and years? Once they lodged upon the earth; now they are lodged within it. They passed from their palaces to the grave, from pleasant courts to dust.

  19. Moses Maimonides teaching (1135-1204)

  20. A page from a draft of Maimonides’s Guide to the Perplexed

  21. Jews & the Medieval Church: From Tolerance to Persecution I. Early Christian Theologians and the Jews A. Theological Negation B. Political Toleration II. Jews in the Era of the Crusades A. Early Medieval Background B. The First Crusade: Riots in the Rhineland C. The Second Crusade (1145-46) & After III. Jews Under Islam IV. Christian-Jewish Relations in Later Middle Ages

  22. 14th century image of Jewish moneylenders

  23. Jews & the Medieval Church: From Tolerance to Persecution I. Early Christian Theologians and the Jews A. Theological Negation B. Political Toleration II. Jews in the Era of the Crusades A. Early Medieval Background B. The First Crusade: Riots in the Rhineland C. The Second Crusade (1145-46) & After III. Jews Under Islam IV. Christian-Jewish Relations in Later Middle Ages A. Economic Exploitation

  24. Jews & the Medieval Church: From Tolerance to Persecution I. Early Christian Theologians and the Jews A. Theological Negation B. Political Toleration II. Jews in the Era of the Crusades A. Early Medieval Background B. The First Crusade: Riots in the Rhineland C. The Second Crusade (1145-46) & After III. Jews Under Islam IV. Christian-Jewish Relations in Later Middle Ages A. Economic Exploitation B. Increased Religious Persecution

  25. 1493 Image of Simon of Trent- artistic conception of a blood libel

  26. Medieval artistic conception of Jews desecrating the Host

  27. A late medieval image of Jews with badges

  28. Medieval Jews & Christians debate

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