Convergencias y diferencias entre reyes visigodos y alta clerecía: el ejemplo de la legislación sobre los judíos

Abstract

Policy against baptised Jews shows both cooperation and dissension between Visigothic kings and high
Spanish Gothic clergy. Depending on the political circumstances, sometimes was the high clergy that
took the initiative forcing the respective king to accept their propositions, and sometimes were the kings
who forced the assembly of the ecclesiastical councils to take decisions that were inconsistent with the
ideas of the Church. But kings and clergy agreed upon a common aim of their different proposals and
measures: they wanted to ensure that baptised Jews behaved like good Christians to avoid God’s wrath
that, according to their ideas rooted in the Old Testament, could provoke even the ruin of the realm.