>>508456508No. Not really. They're mostly just normal folks with a belief system that is somewhat different from that of Medieval Christian peasants. But they're no different from anyone else.
>>508456687>>508457479Yes, just that one group because the local clergy and nobility fabricated an elaborate system of superstitious beliefs about Jews and then used those beliefs to blame Jews every time something went wrong in Medieval society such as an outbreak of disease, a bad harvest, a war, etc. Also, it wasn't just Jews. They often promoted superstitious beliefs about alleged witches, alleged homosexuals, and other poorly understood minority groups such as Roma people and Protestants.
>>508457825More rational explanations are pretty simple. For instance, the local Medieval warlord, duke, king, or prince notices that there's going to be a bad harvest that year, he meets up with the local clergy, and they collude Blake it on the Jews. Now, instead of the peasants rise up and get angry at the nobility for hoarding all the food for themselves, they'll just blame the Jews because the Duke of Chudville and Reverend Whatever decided to blame the Jews instead of irresponsible management of the local leadership.
You can apply this same explanation every time the Jews are accused of something in Medieval society.
-bad harvest, bad weather, bad management of limited food resources by the nobility
>blame the Jews-economic downturn because the local prince blew all the money on remodeling his castle
>blame the Jews-outbreak of war because King Chud wanted to expand his territory
>blame the Jews-outbreak of diseae due to poor Medieval hygiene
>blame the Jews-an eclipse of the sun
>blame the Jews-the king becomes impotent and can't have any more kids
>blame the JewsIt's low IQ lowest common denominator thinking. Always. Every. Single. Time. Behind every instance of "blame the Jews" is a low IQ chud and a more rational explanation