Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland: A Beleaguered Church in the Post-Reformation Era

by Magda Teter

Contrary to the common contention that the Catholic Church triumphed in Counter-Reformation Poland, this study reveals that from the rise of the Reformation and the rapid dissemination of its new ideas, the Catholic Church was overcome with a strong sense of insecurity. The beleaguered Church sought to separate Catholics from non-Catholics: Jews and heretics. This process helped form a Polish identity that led to racial anti-Semitism and to the exclusion...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521856736
• ISBN13: 9780521856737
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.2"