Early Medieval Christian Identity and Anti-Judaism: The Case of the Visigothic Kingdom
Rachel L. Stocking
Abstract This article discusses the efforts by Catholic rulers to eliminate Jewish communities of Visigothic kingdom in Spain. Their sustained effort define Christian identity through forced baptism Jews and criminalization Judaism was unusual early medieval Europe. In explaining anti‐Judaism, modern historians have disagreed over roles Iberian Jews, kings, church leaders such as Isidore Seville. suggests that rather than seeking causation royal greed, religious fanaticism, or ‘crypto‐Judaism’, can more fruitfully call upon approaches used scholars later anti‐Judaism Western
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