Heretics and Jews in the Writings of Ademar of Chabannes and the Origins of Medieval Anti-Semitism
Michael Frassetto
Although many scholars now recognize the turn of millennium as key point in development medieval civilization and birth Europe, there remains a tendency to look twelfth thirteenth centuries period which cultural intellectual norms emerged that would define civilization. This flourishing, long ago recognized renaissance by Charles Henry Haskins, has, recent years, taken on more ominous tones. Certainly this was great fervor, but it also, R. I. Moore has shown, time persecution. Just theologians offered positive definitions Christian faith society, they defined “other”—the enemy who stood stark contrast all true good society. And Western Christendom were no greater enemies than Jew heretic. Indeed, generally been Jewish fortunes increasingly worsened during course centuries.
Church History