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Jews and heretics in Catholic Poland : a beleagured church in the post-Reformation era /
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 t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. The 'infidel Jews, enemies of Christianity' became symbols of the Church's weakness and, simultaneously, instruments of its defense against all of its other adversaries. This process helped form a Polish identity that led, in the case of Jews, to racial anti-Semitism and to the exclusion of Jews from the category of Poles. This book 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 recognized. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxiii, 272 pages) : illustrations, 1 map |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-251) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511137699 9780511137693 1280431881 9781280431883 0511135521 9780511135521 9780511499043 0511499043 9786610431885 6610431884 9780511201882 0511201885 |