Jews in Ecclesiastical Territories of the Holy Roman Empire

Battenberg, J. Friedrich

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“…The emperor formally held all rights to "protect" Jews (Judenregal), including designating which towns could accept Jews as residents and issuing communal and individual letters assuring safe passage. These rights were farmed out, mortgaged, and granted to territorial princes, cities, and bishoprics (Battenberg 1995;Ries 1995: 215). Authorities could choose which Jewish individuals or families to admit and to whom to grant residency permits (Toch 2003), based on such characteristics as their wealth or trade connections, to facilitate economic exchange locally and abroad that could be taxed to fund the local ruler.…”

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Contexts of State Violence: Jewish Expulsions in the Holy Roman Empire

Doten-Snitker

2020

Soc. sci. hist.

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Policies excluding ethnoracial and religious minorities reinforce the power of political elites. This study addresses an extreme case of exclusion: urban expulsions of Jews in the medieval western Holy Roman Empire. Expulsions were official edicts proclaimed by Christian princes, lords, or town councils, whomever ruled a territory. Changing religious and political culture, in the form of new value on community righteousness and the beginning of territorialization, provided incentives for polities to expel their Jewish residents. Using a new database of Jewish settlement and city development in the Western Holy Roman Empire 1000–1520 CE, I show that the relational structure of political power between Christian elites could insulate or expose Jewish communities to political contests of the time. Jews were derided, lesser members of Christian society, but in spite of increasing focus on Christian piety and legislating community purity, most cities did not expel their Jewish residents. City rulers that did expel were attempting to solve challenges for sovereignty through their policies toward Jews.

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Section: Consequences For Jewsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contexts of State Violence: Jewish Expulsions in the Holy Roman Empire

Doten-Snitker

2020

Soc. sci. hist.

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Jews in Ecclesiastical Territories of the Holy Roman Empire

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Contexts of State Violence: Jewish Expulsions in the Holy Roman Empire

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