Lateran Council banned Jews and Saracens from public view during Holy Week

Evidence

Muslims and Jews are also associated in their supposed hostility toward Christians. Both, for Lateran IV, are “blasphemers”; members of both groups parade around in garish clothes during Holy Week, mocking Christians who express their ritual grief at Christ’s Passion. This hostility is specifically invoked to justify the prohibition from holding public office: a “blasphemer” must not be given any power over a Christian. A polemical view of Islam informs the decisions of Lateran IV: the council does not enumerate or distinguish between the different “blasphemies” of the Muslims or the Jews, but it affirms that they are sufficient to justify the exclusion of both from positions of authority. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 1018 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

On the days of Lamentation and on Passion Sunday they [Saracens and Jews] shall not appear in public at all, because some of them on such days, so we have heard, do not blush to parade in their most elegant clothes and are not afraid to ridicule the Christians, who exhibit a memorial of the most holy Passion and display signs of grief. What we most strictly forbid is for them to venture to burst out at all in derision of the Redeemer. And as we ought not to ignore the insulting of Him who atoned for our sins, we order secular rulers to inflict condign punishment upon those who so venture, to restrain them from daring at all to blaspheme Him who was crucified for us. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 1014 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Medieval church councils barred Jews and Muslims from public during Holy Week — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 1014; Lateran IV excluded Muslims and Jews from office by classing both as blasphemers — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 1018; Prussian kings banned Jewish religious reform to prevent assimilation — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1993 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Medieval church councils barred Jews and Muslims from public during Holy Week #corroborates (1.00) — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 1014
• Lateran IV excluded Muslims and Jews from office by classing both as blasphemers #qualifies (1.00) — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 1018
• Lateran IV justified excluding Muslims and Jews from office by calling them blasphemers #qualifies (1.00)
• Secular bans on conspicuously religious practice in Europe target both Jews and Muslims #expands (1.00)
• Prussian kings banned Jewish religious reform to prevent assimilation #complicates (0.70) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1993
• The Council of Vienne’s Arabic chairs were never actually established. #complicates (0.70) — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 95
• EU antidiscrimination law requires unanimous Council decisions to take effect #complicates (0.70)
• The Council of Vienne founded Oriental language chairs for missionary work #complicates (0.70) — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 597
• In regards to the doctrinal differences of the Latins, some Orthodox had particularly staunch views. Patriarch Michael I Cerularius would state that Latin interpolations in the doctrine of the… #complicates (0.70)