La concezione dei giudei come eretici tra tarda antichità e alto medioevo

Between Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages, many times Jews are equated with heretics in Patristic literature, imperial law, council canons. Comparison with later hagiographical texts likening Jews to the heretics concurs in casting light on some sides of relationships between Jews, Christian and heretics and reconstructing a sort of Christian “ideology” about Judaism and other religious groups. Sources considered by the Author reflect a negative categorization of Judaism according to models and formulas which were crystallizing on the basis of ideological, political and religious propaganda. Such stereotypes shed light on the attitude and the positions of predominant groups towards presences, such as that of Jews, heretics and Muslims, felt like “different” or “other” ones, disrupting the Christian Orthodox community