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Journal Article
Intermarriage between Christians and Jews in Medieval Canon Law
1988
Overview
How did canon law view sexual relations between Jews and Christians? Gratian discusses this question in some twenty canons. By 1234, Gregory IX's \"Decretals\" added twenty more canons to the discussion. The Church condoned Jewish marriage, although it did not recognize its validity, since Judaism recognized divorce and, at least as the canonists understood it, polygyny. Christians could not marry Jews. A major problem was the conversion of a Jewish spouse to Christianity. Could such a mixed union be maintained? This question received no clear answer, although in 1199 Innocent III ruled that a convert to Christianity could remarry if his spouse refused to become a Christian. But what of a convert to Judaism? Could his Christian spouse remarry? Once again, Innocent III decided the issue, this time negatively. Canonists were especially exercised by questions of sexual contact between Jews and Christians, which figured in numerous canons. Harsh penalties were established, although they were rarely applied. Such contact, churchmen feared, would compromise Christian purity. /// [Abstract in Hebrew].
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Haifa University Press
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