TY  - BOOK
AU  - Teter,Magda
TI  - Sinners on Trial: Jews and Sacrilege after the Reformation
SN  - 9780674061330
AV  - KKP206 
U1  - 364.1/8809438 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Jews-Legal status, laws, etc.-Poland-History
KW  - Religious minorities-Legal status, laws, etc.-Poland-History
KW  - Sacrilege-Poland-History
KW  - Counter-Reformation-Poland
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: From Sin to Crime -- 1. The Meaning of the Sacred -- 2. Stealing Sacred Objects -- 3. Prosecuting Sins, Defending Faith -- 4. The Making of a Polish Jerusalem -- 5. Protestant Heresy and Charges against Jews -- 6. Christians on Trial, Jews Expelled -- 7. The Struggle for Power and Authority -- 8. Justice and the Politics of Crime -- Glossary -- Abbreviations -- Note on Names and Terminology -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Index
N2  - Criminal law became a key tool in the effort to legitimize Church authority in post-Reformation Poland. Recounting dramatic stories of torture, trial, and punishment involving Christians and Jews, this is the first book to consider the sacrilege accusations of the early modern period within the broader context of politics and common crime
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