![Barbara Tuchman Quote - That the Jews were unholy was a belief so ingrained by the Church [by the 14th century] that the most devout persons were the harshest in their antipathy, none more so than St. Louis.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/that-the-jews-were-unholy-was-a-belief-so-ingraine.jpg)
![Barbara Tuchman Quote - That the Jews were unholy was a belief so ingrained by the Church [by the 14th century] that the most devout persons were the harshest in their antipathy, none more so than St. Louis.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/grey-that-the-jews-were-unholy-was-a-belief-s.jpg)
![Barbara Tuchman Quote - That the Jews were unholy was a belief so ingrained by the Church [by the 14th century] that the most devout persons were the harshest in their antipathy, none more so than St. Louis.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/blue-that-the-jews-were-unholy-was-a-belief-s.jpg)
![Barbara Tuchman Quote - That the Jews were unholy was a belief so ingrained by the Church [by the 14th century] that the most devout persons were the harshest in their antipathy, none more so than St. Louis.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/red-that-the-jews-were-unholy-was-a-belief-s.jpg)
![Barbara Tuchman Quote - That the Jews were unholy was a belief so ingrained by the Church [by the 14th century] that the most devout persons were the harshest in their antipathy, none more so than St. Louis.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/brown-that-the-jews-were-unholy-was-a-belief-s.jpg)
![Barbara Tuchman Quote - That the Jews were unholy was a belief so ingrained by the Church [by the 14th century] that the most devout persons were the harshest in their antipathy, none more so than St. Louis.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/white-that-the-jews-were-unholy-was-a-belief-s.jpg)
That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.
BARBARA TUCHMAN
That the Jews were unholy was a belief so ingrained by the Church [by the 14th century] that the most devout persons were the harshest in their antipathy, none more so than St. Louis.
![Barbara Tuchman Quote - [T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/the-obverse-of-facile-emotion-in-the-14th-century--683x1024.jpg)
![Barbara Tuchman Quote - That the Jews were unholy was a belief so ingrained by the Church [by the 14th century] that the most devout persons were the harshest in their antipathy, none more so than St. Louis.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/that-the-jews-were-unholy-was-a-belief-so-ingraine-683x1024.jpg)
![Barbara Tuchman Quote - The Church [in the 14th century] gave ceremony and dignity to lives that had little of either. It was the source of beauty and art to which all had some access and which many helped to create.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/the-church-in-the-14th-century-gave-ceremony-and-d-683x1024.jpg)
