History of Christianity

===Relations with the Jewish people===
{{Main|Reconquista|Spanish Inquisition}}
[[File:Expulsion judios-en.svg|thumb|350px|right|Expulsions of Jews in Europe from 1100 to 1600|alt=map of Europe from 1100 to 1600 showing where and when Jews were expelled and exciled]]
A turning point in Jewish-Christian relations took place in the early 1200s when contents of the Talmud mocking the central figures of Christianity became public.{{sfn|Rosenthal|1956|pp=68–72}}{{sfn|Schacter|2011|p=2}} The medieval Catholic church never advocated the expulsion of all the Jews from Christendom, nor did the Church ever repudiate Augustine's doctrine of Jewish witness, but new canon law supported discrimination as secular rulers repeatedly confiscated Jewish property and evicted Jews from their lands.{{sfn|Cohen|1998|p=396}}

The Spanish inquisition was authorized by the Pope in answer to royal fears that ''[[Conversos]]'' or ''[[Marranos]]'' (Jewish converts) were spying and conspiring with the Muslims to sabotage the new state.{{sfn|Tarver|Slape|2016|pp=210–212}}{{sfn|Bernardini|Fiering|2001|p=371}} Early inquisitors proved so severe that the Pope soon opposed it and wanted to shut it down.{{sfn|Mathew|2018|pp=52–53}} Ferdinand is said to have threatened the Pope to prevent that. In October 1483, a papal bull conceded control to the Spanish crown.{{sfn|Kamen|2014|p=182}}{{sfn|MacCulloch|2009|p=587}} The inquisition became the first  national, unified and centralized institution of the nascent Spanish state.{{sfn|Casanova|1994|p=75}}

Anti-Judaism had become part of the [[Portuguese Inquisition|Inquisition in Portugal]] before the end of the fifteenth century, and forced conversion led many Jewish converts to India where they suffered as targets of the [[Goa Inquisition]].{{sfn|Flannery|2013|p=11}}

Frankfurt's Jews flourished between 1453 and 1613 despite harsh discrimination. They were restricted to one street, subject to strict rules if they wished to leave this territory and forced to  wear a [[yellow badge|yellow patch]] as a sign of their identity. Within the community they maintained some self-governance. They had their own laws, leaders and a Rabbinical school that functioned as a religious and cultural center.{{sfn|Cohen|1998|p=396}}