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TREATMENT OF THE JEWS not afraid to mock the Christians who maintain theme the most holy Passion by wearing signs of mourning THE NEW RELIGIOUS SENSIBILITIES that emerged in the High Middle Ages also had a negative side, the turning of Christians against their supposed enemies. Although the Crusades provide the most obvious example, Christians also turned on the murderers of Christ," the Jews. As a result, Jews suffered increased persecution. These three documents show different sides of the picture. The first is Canon 68 of the decrees of the Fourth Lateran Council called by Pope Innocent Ill in 1215. The decree specifies the need for special dress, one of the ways Christians tried to separate Jews from their community. The second selection is a chronicler's account of the most deadly charge levied against the Jews-that they were guilty of the ritual murder of Christian children to obtain Christian blood for the Passover service. This charge led to the murder of many Jews. The third document, taken from a list of regulations issued by the city of Avignon, France, illustrates the contempt Christian society held for the Jews. the fort book must from ment the le and antis insidie By had ea had fle renoun Englan readmit An Accusation of the Ritual Murder of a Christian Child by Jews The eight-year-old boy] Harold, who is buried in the Church of St. Peter the Apostle, at Gloucester ..is said to have been carried away secretly by Jews, in the opinion of many on Feb. 21, and by them hidden till March 16. On that night, the sixth of the preceding feast, the Jews of all England coming together as if to circumcise a certain box pretend dece that they are about to celebrate the feast Passoverlappen by law in such case, and deceiving the citizens of Glouce with the fraud, they tortured the lad placed before them immense tortures. It is true no Christian was present, or so heard the deed, nor have we found that anything was betrayed by any Jew. But a little while after when the whole come monks of Gloucester and almost all the citizens of that on and innumerable persons coming to the spectacle, saw the wounds of the dead body, scars of fire, the thornsfunden his head, and liquid wax poured into the eyes and face, touched it with the diligent examination of their hands tortures were believed or guessed to have been inflicted in that manner. It was clear that they had made him martyr to Christ, being slain without sin, and having feet with his own girdle threw him into the river most no INTOLER erance the Muslims Sexuals in the earl Canon 68 In some provinces a difference in dress distinguishes the Jews or Saracens (Muslims) from the Christians, but in certain others such a confusion has grown up that they cannot be distinguished by any difference. Thus it happens at times that through error Christians have relations with the women of Jews or Saracens and Jews or Saracens with Christian women. Therefore, that they may not, under pretext of error of this sort, excuse them- selves in the future for the excesses of such prohibited inter- course, we decree that such Jews and Saracens of both sexes in every Christian province and at all times shall be marked off in the eyes of the public from other peoples through the character of their dress.... Moreover, during the last three days before Faster and especially on Good Friday, they shall not go forth in public at all for the reason that some of them on these very durs, as we hear, do not blush to go forth better dressed and are homosex lar world attitudes ! change to any group favorite ap with other regular pra The Regulations of Avignon, 1243 Likewise, we declare that Jews or whores shall with their hands either bread or fruit put out to they should do this they must buy what they have Q What do these documents reveal about attitudes toward the Jews? Albigensian in most of The legi to it as a developed by Catholie op
what do these documents reveal about christian attiudes towards the Jews

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Antisemitism in Christianity is the hostility of Christian Churches, Christian groups, and by Christians in general to Judaism and the Jewish people.

Christian rhetoric and antipathy towards Jews developed in the early years of Christianity and was reinforced by the belief that Jews had killed Christ and ever increasing anti-Jewish measures over the ensuing centuries. The action taken by Christians against Jews included acts of ostracism, humiliation, violence, and murder, culminating in the Holocaust.

Christian antisemitism has been attributed to numerous factors including theological differences, competition between Church and Synagogue, the Christian drive for converts,misunderstanding of Jewish beliefs and practices, and a perceived Jewish hostility toward Christians. These attitudes were reinforced in Christian preaching, art and popular teaching for two millennia, containing contempt for Jews,as well as statutes which were designed to humiliate and stigmatise Jews.

Modern antisemitism has been described as primarily hatred against Jews as a race with its modern expression rooted in 18th-century racial theories, while anti-Judaism is described as hostility to Jewish religion, but in Western Christianity it effectively merged into antisemitism during the 12th century.Scholars have debated how Christian antisemitism played a role in the Nazi Third Reich, World War II. The Holocaust has driven many within Christianity to reflect on the relationship between Christian theology, practices, and that genocide.