It strikes me as significant that, aside from events in Spain, Jewish massacres during the Black Death were limited to the area along the Rhine River. In part this reflected the terrible grip of tradition - where else in Europe did families identify themselves as Jew-roasters? But it also reflected the prevailing weakness of both Church and State authority in this region....'the most politically fractured area' of Germany...
One True God, p155.
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