If you want to understand why Europe didn’t like Jewish populations, it’s because for centuries Christianity didn’t allow charging another Christian interest.
The lords would borrow money from Jewish lenders to pay for wars since Christians couldn’t loan with interest, and when the lenders wanted repayment the lords would declare a pogrom.
Graeber’s “Debt: The First 5,000 Years” goes into this in a bit of detail about 2/3 of the way through.
The lords would borrow money from Jewish lenders to pay for wars since Christians wouldn’t loan without interest,
Literally the opposite…
The taking of interest was forbidden to clerics from AD 314. It was strictly forbidden for laymen in 1179. The beginning of the end as far as the total ban on interest was concerned came in the sixteenth century.
The lords would borrow money from Jewish lenders to pay for wars since Christians couldn’t loan with interest, and when the lenders wanted repayment the lords would declare a pogrom.
Graeber’s “Debt: The First 5,000 Years” goes into this in a bit of detail about 2/3 of the way through.
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Literally the opposite…
https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-1030,00.html
That’s what I said, the Christians wouldn’t loan because they couldn’t charge interest.
You used a double negative dawg…
What you said was:
That might not be what you meant to type, but that’s what was typed.
Or you could have said:
My bad. Thanks for the correction.
No worries
While that statement could be interpreted either way, I thought the context made it pretty clear what they meant
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