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| Preface and Acknowledgments | |
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| Note on Terms, Spelling, and Translations | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| "One Mystical Body...Only One Shepherd": The Church Ideals of Social Order | |
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| "Two Swords...the Spiritual and the Temporal" | |
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| The Threat to the Sword of Spiritual Power: "Those Wretched and Miserable Jews" | |
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| "All Heresies Are Forbidden by Both Divine and Imperial Law" | |
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| The Upset Social Order: Nobles and the Jews in Poland | |
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| Polish Triangle of Power: The King, the Nobles, and the Catholic Church | |
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| "We Were Born Nobles First and Only Then Catholics" | |
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| Jews and the Nobles, "Their Protectors" | |
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| "A Great Danger...from the Outcry of the Gentiles that Jews...Have Dominion over Them" | |
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| Heresy and the Fleeting "Triumph of the Counter-Reformation" | |
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| Christians on Trial for "Falling into the Perfidious Apostasy and the Superstitious Sect of the Jews" | |
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| Between "the Papists" and "the Arians": The Christian "dissidentes de religione" | |
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| "To Accept One True Confession," Not "Someone Else's...But Our Own Polish and Christian" | |
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| "Bad and Cruel Catholics": Christian Sins and Social Intimacies Between Jews and Christians | |
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| Sunday Sins and Jewish Inns | |
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| "Debaucheries, Adulteries, and Lewdness": Female Servants in Jewish Homes | |
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| Feasting, Drinking, and Dancing: Jewish-Christian Socializing | |
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| "Neither Men nor Women Should Wear Non-Jewish Clothes": Restrictions of Rabbinic Law | |
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| "Even Jews and Turks Observe Holidays Better": The Church Rebukes Sinning Christians | |
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| "A Shameful Offence": The Nobles and Their Jews | |
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| "Impoverished and Destroyed": Church Revenues and the Jews | |
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| "The Jews as Their Lord Squire": A Wave of Prohibitions to Restore the Church Ideal of Social Hierarchy | |
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| "The Money, the Pepper, the Saffron, and the Christian Blood" | |
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| The Lords' Defiance of the Church and the Consequences Thereof | |
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| "Countless Books Against Common Faith": Catholic Insularity and Anti-Jewish Polemic | |
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| "So, Is It Inappropriate for Us to Have Books?": Control of Printing and Scholarship | |
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| Jewish Instruction of Christian Scholars, in Poland and Abroad | |
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| "The Rabid and Cruel Synagogue": Accusations by Catholic Clergy in Poland | |
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| The Host and the Blood: The Medievalism of Polish Anti-Jewish Polemic | |
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| "Is It Permissible to Kill a Pagan or a Jew...?" | |
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| "Warding Off Heretical Depravity": "Whom Does the Catholic Church Reject, Condemn and Curse?" | |
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| Promoting Mary and the Saints | |
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| Challenging the Protestants by Undermining the Jews | |
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| "The Heretics Are Truly Worse" | |
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| "Blindness," "Obstinacy," and "Blasphemies": Anti-Jewish Sources of Anti-Protestant Assaults | |
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| "They Are Obliged to Be Subordinate to the Dominant Religion": Legislative Measures Concerning Heretics | |
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| Conclusion: Did the Counter-Reformation Triumph in Poland? | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Notes | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index | |