Books by Kenneth Stow

Includes essays united with the following theme: the attitude of the medieval Church, and in particular the papacy, toward the Jewish population of Western Europe.

Most Roman Jews were not immigrants; some had been there before the time of Christ. Nor were they cultural strangers: they spoke (Roman) Italian, and ate and dressed as did other Romans.

This narrative history surveying one thousand years of Jewish life integrates the Jewish experience into the context of the overall culture and society of medieval Europe. It presents a new picture of the interaction between Christians and Jews in this tumultuous era.

This book is a study of Catholic teachings on purity, and the anxiety these teachings have generated with respect to relations with the Jews since the time of St. Paul.