Machine generated contents note: 1.Jewish Ideas about the Papacy -- 2.The Papal Promise of Protection -- 3.The Impact of the Crusades -- 4.Jews and Money -- 5.Papal Claims to Authority over Judaism -- 6.The Papacy and the Place of Jews in Christian Society -- 7.The City of Rome -- 8.Papal Rhetoric: Heretics, Muslims, and Jews.
Summary
Rebecca Rist explores the nature and scope of the relationship of the medieval papacy to the Jews of western Europe in the context of the substantial and on-going social, political, and economic changes of the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries.