Antiquity
Councils of Vannes (465), Agde (506), Épone (517) and Orleans (533, 538, 541)
465-541·Gaule
The toll is reproduced exactly as the source states it — never rounded, never added to another. Tolls overlap from one event to the next.
shared meals, mixed marriages and possession of Christian slaves forbidden to Jews
For nearly a century, the bishops assembled in Gaul repeated and tightened the provisions of the Council of Elvira. Vannes, in Armorica, opened the series by forbidding clerics to share a table with a Jew; Agde, under Visigothic domination, extended the prohibition to the laity.
Épaone, in Burgundy, then the three Councils of Orléans, held under the Merovingian kings, added the prohibition of mixed marriages, the prohibition for a Jew to own a Christian slave — a measure that struck at the foundation of the manorial economy — and the obligation imposed on Jews to remain confined in their homes during the holy days of Easter.
These canons had force only over Christians, the Church legislating for no others; but the Frankish kings gradually gave them the force of law of the kingdom. It is through them that the late Roman separation passed into the law of medieval Western Christendom.
- Period :
- Antiquity
- Type :
- Persecution
- Region :
- Western Europe
- Country :
- Gaule (France)
Canons des conciles de Vannes, d'Agde, d'Épaone et d'Orléans ; collections canoniques gauloises.