Visigothic law policed Jewish-Christian boundaries through slavery and sex rules

Evidence

Christians are rational, as befits men; Jews congregate like irrational sheep. Despite his dependence on Jerome, Isidore is much more virulently anti-Jewish than the earlier church fathers: he may well have played a key role in the formation of Visigothic anti-Jewish policy. Reccared himself had passed a law forbidding Jews to have Christian slaves or to have sexual intercourse with Christian women; the children of any such unions were to be baptized. No Jew was to be in a position of authority over Christians. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 144

Categorization

• XREF: Slave-ownership and intermarriage bans as group-boundary maintenance echo sumptuary and purity laws in other regimes — connects to lex Oppia and similar status-signaling legislation.