The Open court . ifth century changedin a degree the condition of theJews. The northern nations, aslong as they professed Arianismin preference to the Catholicfaith, showed themselves mer-ciful to their Jewish was especially the case withthe Goths. When the dominion of the Ostrogoths, under their kingTheodoric, succeeded that of Odoacer and the Heruli in Italy andthe west, the Jews had every reason to be satisfied with their newsovereign. The consequence was that the Goths in the west, likethe Persians in the east, found faithful allies in the Jews of thatperiod. When Justinian,
The Open court . ifth century changedin a degree the condition of theJews. The northern nations, aslong as they professed Arianismin preference to the Catholicfaith, showed themselves mer-ciful to their Jewish was especially the case withthe Goths. When the dominion of the Ostrogoths, under their kingTheodoric, succeeded that of Odoacer and the Heruli in Italy andthe west, the Jews had every reason to be satisfied with their newsovereign. The consequence was that the Goths in the west, likethe Persians in the east, found faithful allies in the Jews of thatperiod. When Justinian, by his general, Narses, conquered Italyfrom the Ostrogoths (A. D. 555), the Jews, especially those atNaples, assisted him, only to be heavily punished afterwards. The Visigoths also, in their defence of Aries, in Provence,against the Franks, under Clovis, were assisted by the Jews. InSpain the kings of the Visigoths treated them with favor till aboutthe year 600, their king, Reccared, having embraced the Catholic. 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
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