Jews and heretics in Catholic Poland

Magda Teter, MAGDA TETER

"This book takes issue with historians' common contention that the Catholic Church triumphed in Counter-Reformation Poland. In fact, the Church's own sources show that the story is far more complex. From the rise of the Reformation and the rapid dissemination of these new ideas through printing, the Catholic Church was overcome with a strong sense of insecurity. The "infidel Jews, enemies of Christianity," became symbols of the Church's weakness and, simultaneously, instruments of its defense against all of its other adversaries."--BOOK JACKET.