Medieval Discrimination and Ill Treatment of Jews

Medieval Discrimination and Ill Treatment of Jews In the later part of the thirteenth century, a stable northern European society began to deteriorate due to widespread inflation and famine. As disease rapidly spread throughout Europe, pessimism and paranoia spread quickly among the people. Starved and fearful people began to look for a cause for all of the tragedies unfolding around them. Many Christians turned their anger towards the Jews. The Jewish people that were living …

…the reason for their continual attempts to convert the Jews to their own faith. When Jews from France refused in 1306 to convert to Christianity, they were expelled from the country. This happened in many countries because the Jews refused to abandon their own faith in Judaism. Overall, the Jews suffered numerous injustices by the Christians because the Christians blamed them for the problems in Europe and believed that their own faith was superior to Judaism.