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Sinners on trial : Jews and sacrilege after the reformation /

Criminal law became a key tool in the effort to legitimize Church authority in post-Reformation Poland. Recounting dramatic stories of torture, trial, and punishment involving Christians and Jews, this is the first book to consider the sacrilege accusations of the early modern period within the broa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Teter, Magda
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : from sin to crime
  • The meaning of the sacred
  • Stealing sacred objects
  • Prosecuting sins, defending faith
  • The making of a Polish Jerusalem
  • Protestant heresy and charges against Jews
  • Christians on trial, Jews expelled
  • The struggle for power and authority
  • Justice and the politics of crime.