re: Under Andalusian skies

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

I wrote:
>I believe that it's quite likely that anti-Jewish pogroms and the like
>became more common with the rise of capitalism (which corresponded to the
>creation of the Absolutist monarchies and of ethnic nationalism), but are
>you sure that there were no persecutions of Jews under Western European
>feudalism? This is sort of on the edge of my knowledge, but I know that
>religious "heretics" and witches were persecuted during the Middle Ages. So
>it makes sense that Jews were too, doesn't it?<

LP:>Absolutely. Christian anti-Semitism precedes capitalist property
relations.
It even precedes feudalism.<

I guess I misunderstood you as saying that Christian anti-Jewish bigotry
started with capitalism (or in 1492, whichever came first). In any event, my
friend the Medievalist says that the First Crusade (1095-1100) started with
a slaughter of Jews...

BTW, isn't "Andalusia" part of Spain? Why did an article on Tunisia refer to
Andalusian skies?

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine