The Open court . The High Priest, in Linen the blood in the holy of holies. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE JEWS. 275 faith, inaugurated that peculiar system of conduct toward the Jewswhich finally resulted in their total expulsion from the peninsula. The Franks were at first less merciful to the Jews than theGoths. The Merovingian line treated them with peculiar in 540 King Childebert forbade the Jews to appear in thestreets of Paris during the Easter week. Clotaire I. deprived themof the power of holding office. King Dagobert (629) compelledthem either to receive bap
The Open court . The High Priest, in Linen the blood in the holy of holies. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE JEWS. 275 faith, inaugurated that peculiar system of conduct toward the Jewswhich finally resulted in their total expulsion from the peninsula. The Franks were at first less merciful to the Jews than theGoths. The Merovingian line treated them with peculiar in 540 King Childebert forbade the Jews to appear in thestreets of Paris during the Easter week. Clotaire I. deprived themof the power of holding office. King Dagobert (629) compelledthem either to receive baptism or to leave the country. Under the Carlovingians in France the Jews of the eighth andninth centuries enjoyed so great a degree of prosperity, that the. The Fast of Jerusalem in Jerusalem. Romish bishops took alarm. Under Pepin le Bref, son of CharlesMartel, they enjoyed many privileges, and so likewise under his sonCharlemagne and under his successor and son, Louis le Debon-naire. The latter even freed them from the grinding taxes im-posed upon them, and confirmed them in their immunities in all exertions of the priesthood, especially of Ogobard, bishopof Lyons, to injure the Jews, were futile. The position of the Jews underwent an entire change at thedownfall of the Carlovingian dynasty, which began to decay afterthe death of Louis le Debonnaire. The invasion of the Normans 276 THE OPEN COURT. was partly the cause and partly the signal for a complete change ofkings in Europe. An age of barbarism spread over the whole faceof Christianity, the feudal system developed itself in every way in-jurious to the Jews. But one of the greatest evils which they werecompelled to endure was the prevalence of the crusading the
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