Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland - A Beleaguered Church in the Post-Reformation Era

Informationen zum Autor Magda Teter is Assistant Professor of History at Wesleyan University. She is the recipient of the Koret Foundation publication prize and has been published in English, Polish and Hebrew in such journals as Jewish History, AJS Review and Gal-Ed. Klappentext Portrayal of Jews as victims of Church persecution but also as participants in Polish society. Zusammenfassung Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland takes issue with historians' common contention that the Catholic Church triumphed in Counter-reformation Poland. It portrays Jews not only as victims of Church persecution but as active participants in Polish society who had more influence than has been recognised. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and acknowledgements; Notes; Abbreviations; Map of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; Introduction; 1. 'One Mystical Body ... Only One Shepherd': church ideal of spiritual and social hierarchy; 2. The upset social order: Nobles and the Jews in Poland; 3. Heresy and the fleeting 'Triumph of the Counter-Reformation'; 4. 'Bad and cruel Catholics': Christian sins and social intimacies between Jews and Christians; 5. 'A shameful offence': The Nobles and Their Jews; 6. 'Countless Books against common Faith': Catholic insularity and anti-Jewish polemic; 7. 'Warding off heretical depravity': 'Whom does the Catholic church reject, condemn and curse?'; Conclusion: did the Counter Reformation triumph in Poland? Glossary; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Magda Teter, Magda (Director of Jewish and Israel Studie Teter, Teter Magda
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2009
• EAN: 9780521109918
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10991-8
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; History of Ideas, RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic, HISTORY / Social History, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Christianity, History of Religion, Church history, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church