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Article: Heretics and Jews in the writings of Ademar of Chabannes and the origins of medieval anti-Semitism.
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- Church History
- Article date:
- March 1, 2002
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Although many scholars now recognize the turn of the millennium as the key point in the development of medieval civilization and the birth of Europe, there remains a tendency to look to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries as the period in which cultural and intellectual norms emerged that would define medieval civilization. This cultural flourishing, long ago recognized as a renaissance by Charles Henry Haskins, has, in recent years, taken on more ominous tones. (1) Certainly this was a period of great intellectual fervor, but it was also, as R. I. Moore has shown, a time of persecution. (2) Just as medieval theologians offered positive definitions of the Christian faith ...