''Cum saepe accidere'' ("as often happens") was a
papal bull issued by
Pope Clement VIII
Pope Clement VIII ( la, Clemens VIII; it, Clemente VIII; 24 February 1536 – 3 March 1605), born Ippolito Aldobrandini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 2 February 1592 to his death in March 1605.
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on 28 February 1592, which decreed that the
Jews
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of
Avignon
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were forbidden to trade "new commodities" in public places in order to put them at an economic disadvantage. It foreshadowed the increasing hostility toward Jews living in the Papal states, who were soon after forbidden from studying
Talmud
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and
ordered expelled. Under the previous Pope, restrictions on Jews had been relaxed. With ''cum saepe accidere'', Pope Clement VIII issued the first of a series of edicts which would remain in place until the 19th century.
After this bull was issued, Jewish merchants could only sell secondhand goods, leading to the stereotype of Jewish secondhand dealers.
See also
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Christian anti-Judaism
Anti-Judaism is the "total or partial opposition to Judaism as a religion—and the total or partial opposition to Jews as adherents of it—by persons who accept a competing theology, system of beliefs and ritual, practices and consider certai ...
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History of trade
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List of papal bulls
This is an incomplete list of papal bulls, listed by the year in which each was issued.
The decrees of some papal bulls were often tied to the circumstances of time and place, and may have been adjusted, attenuated, or abrogated by subsequent pop ...
References
Documents of Pope Clement XIII
16th-century papal bulls
Early Modern Christian anti-Judaism
1592 in Christianity
1592 documents
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