Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland: A Beleaguered Church in the Post-Reformation Era Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

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

Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland takes issue with historians' common contention that the Catholic Church triumphed in Counter-Reformation Poland. In fact, the Church's own sources show that the story is far more complex. From the rise of the Reformation and the rapid dissemination of these new ideas through printing, the Catholic Church was overcome with a strong sense of insecurity. Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland portrays Jews not only as victims of Church persecution but as active participants in Polish society who as allies of the nobles, placed in positions of power, had more influence than has been recogniz ed.Read More

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    Contrary to the common contention that the Catholic Church triumphed in Counter-Reformation Poland, this study reveals that from the rise of the Reformation and the rapid dissemination of its new ideas, the Catholic Church was overcome with a strong sense of insecurity. The beleaguered Church sought to separate Catholics from non-Catholics: Jews and heretics. This process helped form a Polish identity that led to racial anti-Semitism and to the exclusion of even most assimilated Jews from the category of Poles. The book portrays Jews not only as victims of Church persecution but as active influential participants in Polish society.

  • 0521109914
  • 9780521109918
  • Magda Teter
  • 30 April 2009
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 312
  • 1
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