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was convinced that
Reccared refused bribes from the Jewish community, which was large, well-connected throughout the Mediterranean and powerful, and Reccared's laws provided that the offspring of a Christian and a Jew be baptised, which was of little moment to the Jewish community, as whether it was
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In
January 587, Reccared renounced Arianism for Chalcedonianism, the single great event of his reign and the turning point for Visigothic Hispania. Most Arian nobles and ecclesiastics followed his example, certainly those around him at Toledo, but there were Arian uprisings, notably in Septimania,
443:, bishop Leander's brother, praises his peaceful government, clemency, and generosity: standard encomia. He returned various properties, even some private ones, that had been confiscated by his father, and founded many churches and monasteries. Pope Gregory, writing to Reccared in August 599 (
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not born of a Jewish mother or was born of a Jewish woman outside her community, the child was not considered a Jew anyway. Reccared eliminated the death penalty for Jews convicted of proselytising among
Christians and ignored Gregory's request that the trade in Christian slaves at
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Reportedly
Reccared engaged in a vigorous policy against the Jews, pursuing zealous and fanatical policies limiting Jewish freedoms as promulgated in the canons of synods. Modern historians have revised this view and see a continuation of traditional Visigothic tolerance.
403:, organized by St. Leander but convened in the king's name in May 589, set the tone for the new Catholic kingdom. The public confession of the king, read aloud by a notary, reveals by the emphatic clarity of its theological points and its quotations of
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When King
Leovigild died, within a few weeks of April 21, 586, bishop Leander was swift to return to Toledo. The new king had been associated with his father in ruling the kingdom and was acclaimed king by the Visigothic nobles without
447:. ix. 61, 122), extols him for embracing the true faith and inducing his people to do so, and notably for refusing the bribes offered by Jews to procure the repeal of a law against them. He sent Reccared a piece of the
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a homily upon the "triumph of the Church upon the conversion of the Goths". The text of the homily survives. Leander and the Roman bishops immediately instituted the program of forced conversion of
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be forbidden to Jews. Among the canons of five synods during
Reccared's reign, E. A. Thompson could find none disadvantaging the Jewish community.
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that it was ghost-written for the king. Bishop
Leander also delivered the triumphant closing sermon, which his brother Isidore entitled
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Distinction: Construction of Ethnic Communities, 300–800 (Transformation of the Roman World) by Walter Pohl,
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by his first wife. Like his father, Reccared had his capital at
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Isidore of Seville's History of the Goths, Vandals, and Suevi
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The information for the rest of Reccared's reign is scanty.
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Homilia de triumpho ecclesiae ob conversionem Gothorum
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