Jews in the Middle Ages
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The history of Jews in the Middle Ages (approximately 500 CE to 1750 CE) can be divided into two categories. The history of the Jews in Muslim Arab lands (mainly Islamic Spain and North Africa) covered in the Islam and Judaism and Golden age of Jewish culture in the Iberian Peninsula articles, and the history of Jews in Christian Europecovered in this article. By the 10th century most of Europe was under the rule of Christian monarchs who made Christianity the religion of their realms. This, however, left a privileged niche for Jews in the new order. The Catholic Church forbade Christians from…mehr

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The history of Jews in the Middle Ages (approximately 500 CE to 1750 CE) can be divided into two categories. The history of the Jews in Muslim Arab lands (mainly Islamic Spain and North Africa) covered in the Islam and Judaism and Golden age of Jewish culture in the Iberian Peninsula articles, and the history of Jews in Christian Europecovered in this article. By the 10th century most of Europe was under the rule of Christian monarchs who made Christianity the religion of their realms. This, however, left a privileged niche for Jews in the new order. The Catholic Church forbade Christians from charging interest to fellow Christians; therefore only source of loans were non-Christians such as Jews. While this status did not always lead to peaceful conditions for the Jewish people, they were the most compatible non-Christians for the position due to their shared devotion to the same Abrahamic God that the Christians worshiped.